Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:15:13 +0100 From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD Message-ID: <864qk4e0ha.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> In-Reply-To: <20041104115425.A95642@prime.gushi.org> (Dan Mahoney's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:01:15 -0500 (EST)") References: <20041104115425.A95642@prime.gushi.org>
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"Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> writes: > Hey all, I'm trying to create an inventory script for systems that will be > loaded via net-boot. I was wondering if there was any useful way to > obtain the serial number of devices like the hard drives, processor, > and/or motherboard. (as far as I can guess, those are the only things > likely to store a serial number in a machine-readable format). > > I'm scripting in perl, but of course have nothing against making system > calls to get at the low-level stuff. for harddisk you can try smartctl, for bios/mainboard you can try dmidecode (in ports). Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found
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