Setting the service tag on a new motherboard

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:29:03AM -0800, Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> 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.)

That is correct. Most Dell systems base their GUID off of service tag.
--
Michael

> 
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> Thank You
> Jefferson Cowart
> Network and Linux Systems Administrator
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> 
> > -----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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