In article <1134752086.382639.85380@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>,
"teeder44" wrote:

> Can somebody tell me how I would remotely get the serial number of a
> Sun-Fire-280R running Solaris 5.8, from the command line?
>
> Thanks.
>
> teeder44

Answered at length in another newsgroup. Short answer: you can't--it's
not in any machine readable format available to a machine.

And, no, the hostid isn't same thing. The serial # is printed on the
back of the unit and is also on the paperwork you got when you received
the unit from SUN.

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