How to Obtain the Dell/HP (May be other vendors) service tag in Debian
Posted by Admin on October 20th, 2008
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Dump Desktop Management Interface data.The Desktop Management Interface provides a standardized description of a computer’s hardware, including characteristics such as BIOS serial number and hardware connectors. dmidecode provides a dump of the DMI data available from the BIOS. It is used as a back-end tool by other hardware detection programs.
Install dmidecode using the following command
#aptitude install dmidecode
This will complete the installation
Using dmidecode
Once installed, all you have to do is execute
To Find the service tag use the following command
# dmidecode -s chassis-serial-number
you will get your service tag printed on screen.
To Find the model number use the following command
# dmidecode -s system-product-name
PowerEdge 2970
October 21st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene
October 24th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
And if you sadly have the pain of managing a few windows hosts too, the same can be retreived with:
wmic bios get serialnumber
Or thinks like (for more informations):
wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber,serialnumber