As far as I've found, it's impossible to retrieve the serial no. from a
Cisco remotely. I've seen talk of putting it into the SNMP location or
description string before so that it's easy to retrieve remotely in the
event of a failure.
Cheers,
Chris.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:08:54AM -0500, Paul Van Der Zel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just attempted to get the serial number of a Cisco from the inside of
> the router and compare it to the one printed on the outside:
>
> a "show version" gives me:
> Processor Board ID 05604842, with hardware revision 00000000
>
> or querying snmp OID:
> cisco.3.6.3.0 05604842
>
> another OID later in the MIB tree provides the following:
> mib.47.1.1.1.1.2.1 "2500 chassis, Hw Serial#: 90196034, Hw Revision: N"
> Lance HD64570 HD64570 Unknown
>
> All of which completely fails to coincide with: 250054124, which is what is
> written on the serial number label...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paul
>
> Paul van der Zel
> IS Cape Town
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