Howto determine serial numbers for cisco router and Catalyst switch
Posted by Admin on August 9th, 2009
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If you want to know the chassis serial number for your router use the following command
Router> sh inventory
Output
NAME: “2821 chassis”, DESCR: “2821 chassis”PID: CISCO2821 , VID: V04 , SN: FCZ10231VG
NAME: “WAN Interface Card – Serial 2T”, DESCR: “WAN Interface Card – Serial 2T”PID: WIC-2T , VID: V01, SN: 32387748
Cisco Catalyst 6500/6000 users
Catalyst 6500/6000 switches can run CatOS system software on the Supervisor Engine and Cisco IOS Software on the MSFC. Or, the switches can run Cisco IOS System Software, with a software bundle for both the Supervisor Engine and MSFC.
For CatOS Users
Use the show version command to determine the serial number of various hardware components
In order to find the serial number of port adapters that plug into the Flex WAN module, issue the show diagbus command from the MSFC command-line interface (CLI).
If the power supply serial number is not visible in the show version command output, issue the show sprom powersupply {1 | 2} command.
Cisco IOS System Software
In order to determine the serial number for the chassis and other components, issue the show idprom command, as this example shows:
6509#show idprom ?
all selects all FRU-types
backplane specify backplane
clock specify clock <number>
earl specify earl <slot>
fan-tray specify fan-tray <number>
interface interface name
module specify module <slot>
power-supply specify power-supply <number>
rp specify RP (MSFC) <slot>
supervisor specify supervisor <slot>
vtt specify VTT <number>
