How to get SUN server serial number ?

Are you breaking your head to find the Sun/oracle server serial number from Solaris operating system  ? Many times it is required to get support from hardware vendor and every time we can’t go back to look at the server builds books to find it. Here I am just sharing few tips to find the server serial number from Oracle Solaris. Download the STB (Sun explorer) bundle from oracle website and install it by just executing the script. After installing STB bundle,by default SNEEP utility also will be installed on the server.

You can find the sneep utilities in the below mentioned location.

[root @ /opt/SUNWsneep/bin]# ls -l
total 298
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other       5519 Feb 15  2012 add_sneep_to_bin
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other       5995 Feb 15  2012 install_explorer_plugin
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other       5120 Feb 15  2012 serial_finder
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Apr 15  2012 setcsn -> sneep
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Apr 15  2012 showplatform -> sneep
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other     120925 Feb 15  2012 sneep

[root @ /opt/SUNWsneep/bin]# ./showplatform
BDFxxx2E4E
[root @/opt/SUNWsneep/bin]#./sneep
BDFxxx2E4E

There are many commands with link to same binary to pull the server serial numbers.In the above output you can see serscn & showplatform softlinks of sneep.

[root@ /]# eeprom |grep -i ChassisSerialNumber
." ChassisSerialNumber BDFxxx2E4E " cr

[root @ /]# prtconf -pv |grep chassis
   chassis-sn:  'BDFxxx2E4E'
[root @ /]#

Please see the below examples taken from an Oracle/Sun Explorer utility.In these examples, if we already know the serial number, these examples show what commands could be used to retrieve the serial number. In these examples a portion of the serial has been masked. Ex: M9000/M8000

# cd /opt/SUNWexplo/output/explorer*
# grep AKD11XXXXX *

chassis_serial.out:AKD11XXXXX
eeprom.out:." ChassisSerialNumber AKD11XXXXX " cr
env.out:EXP_SERIAL_847c7878=AKD11XXXXX
prtconf-vp.out: chassis-sn: 'AKD11XXXXX'
prtpicl-v.out: :chassis-sn AKD11XXXXX

XSCF>showhardconf
SPARC Enterprise M5000;
+ Serial:BDF1219XXX; Operator_Panel_Switch:Locked;

How to update or store  serial number in Solaris ?
To store serial number into the EEPROM.

bash-3.00# ls -lrt |grep -i Solaris86
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root     47291285 May 27 13:36 p16469063_73_Solaris86-64.zip
bash-3.00# unzip p16469063_73_Solaris86-64.zip
Archive:  p16469063_73_Solaris86-64.zip
  inflating: README.txt
  inflating: install_stb.sh          
bash-3.00# ls -lrt |grep stb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     51074006 Mar  6 22:14 install_stb.sh
bash-3.00# chmod 700 install_stb.sh
bash-3.00# ./install_stb.sh
List of Services Tool Bundle Components:
   Oracle Explorer Data Collector 7.3
   Oracle Serial Number in EEPROM (SNEEP) 7.3
   Service Tag (ST) packages
   Oracle Autonomous Crashdump Tool 8.17 (ACT)

Would you like to (I)nstall, (X)tract, or (E)xit ? (I by default)
bash-3.00#

bash-3.00# sneep -s AKZD34567
bash-3.00# sneep
AKZD34567
bash-3.00# sneep -t "Location" -s INDIA
bash-3.00# sneep -T
"ChassisSerialNumber"   "AKZD34567"
"Location"      "INDIA"
bash-3.00# sneep -t "AssetTag" -s 45675
bash-3.00# sneep -T
"ChassisSerialNumber"   "AKZD34567"
"AssetTag"      "45675"
"Location"      "INDIA"
bash-3.00#

bash-3.00# sneep -V
Release 7.3