How to Obtain the Dell/HP (May be other vendors) service tag in Debian

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Oct 202008
 

    You are using debian on Dell or HP servers if you want to know the serialnumber and model you can use the following procedure.This is verr useful when you are connected remotely and find the details.

    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

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       Posted by at 12:05 am
      • Eugene

        looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene

      • bp

        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

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