Setting the service tag on a new motherboard

[Jefferson Cowart]

I don't know if this is still the case, but as of a few years ago
Optiplexs would key the PXE GUID off of the service tag. If you replaced
the motherboard without setting the service tag on multiple machines you
would end up with multiple machines with the same PXE GUID. (We found
this out when RIS got very unhappy trying to image these machines.)

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Thank You
Jefferson Cowart
Network and Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries Information Technology 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Michael E Brown
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:06
> To: Tony Schreiner
> Cc: linux-poweredge
> Subject: Re: Setting the service tag on a new motherboard
> 
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:45:12AM -0500, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Michael E Brown wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:31:28PM -0500, Randy Martin wrote:
> > >> I have replaced a few PE1950 motherboards on one of our clusters.
> I
> > >> noticed when I do a "omreport system summary", the service tag
> > >> shows up as
> > >> DELL on those nodes that had the replacement boards.  Is there a
> > >> way to
> > >> replace the DELL string that omreport shows with the service tag
> > >> for the
> > >> node?
> > >
> > > use the "serviceTag" executable from libsmbios. (libsmbios-bin)
> > > --
> > > Michael
> >
> > I have the same issue with a replacement motherboard (on a 1750) and
> > no service tag.
> >
> > It looks to me like the serviceTag application can set the asset
tag,
> > but not the service tag
> 
> Cut and paste error on my part. It sets the service tag. I just
> committed a fix to the help text.
> 
> > even if I could set the service tag, what would I set it to?
> 
> Set it to the service tag listed on the tag on the back of the
machine.
> --
> Michael
> 
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