{"id":91,"date":"2009-04-22T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-02-04T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:27:01","slug":"dell-service-tag-from-bios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Dell Service Tag from Bios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a neat way to get bios\/service tag info about a computer  without using a dell utility.<\/p>\n<p>Linux<\/p>\n<p>dmidecode -q | grep -E &#8216;System Info|Serial&#8217; | grep -n1 System | tail -n1 | awk &#8216;{print $4;}&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>(mileage may vary depending on BIOS &#8211; better to try dmidecode -q | less to see the whole output if the above doesn&#8217;t work)<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP:<\/p>\n<p>wmic bios get serialnumber<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UPDATE (Feb 4 2011):<\/span> Alan (our linux sysadmin) found another tool which will give you hardware info on linux servers, including the serial number.\u00a0 It is called lshw (you can use lshw -html or -xml to output into either format).\u00a0 It is available for installation on ubuntu and debian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a neat way to get bios\/service tag info about a computer without using a dell utility. Linux dmidecode -q | grep -E &#8216;System Info|Serial&#8217; | grep -n1 System | tail -n1 | awk &#8216;{print $4;}&#8217; (mileage may vary depending on BIOS &#8211; better to try dmidecode -q | less to see the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}