You may be required to obtain serial numbers from an Oracle Exadata Machine, for example to confirm correct hardware for part replacement like disk controller battery (X4-2 and older) or disk, etc.

Below is how to obtain serials for each component.

Exadata Machine

To obtain the serial number of the Exadata Machine itself:

[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]# ipmitool sunoem cli "show /SP system_identifier" | grep "system_identifier ="
system_identifier = Exadata Database Machine X5-2 AK00XXXXXX
[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]#

Compute Nodes

To obtain the serial number of the compute nodes via dcli:

[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]# dcli -g /opt/oracle.SupportTools/onecommand/dbs_group -l root dmidecode -s system-serial-number
v1ex1dbadm01: 1514NMXXXX
v1ex1dbadm02: 1514NMXXXX
[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]#

Storage Cells

To obtain the serial number of the storage cells via dcli:

[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]# dcli -g /opt/oracle.SupportTools/onecommand/cell_group -l root dmidecode -s system-serial-number
v1ex1celadm01: 1515NMXXXX
v1ex1celadm02: 1515NMXXXX
v1ex1celadm03: 1515NMXXXX
[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]#

InfiniBands

To obtain the serial number of the InfiniBands via dcli:

[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]# dcli -g /opt/oracle.SupportTools/onecommand/ib_group -l root showfruinfo | grep -a Sun_Serial_Number
v1ex1sw-iba01: Sun_Serial_Number : XXXXXXT+1512RRXXXX
v1ex1sw-iba01: Sun_Serial_Number : AK0029XXXX
v1ex1sw-ibb01: Sun_Serial_Number : XXXXXXT+1512RRXXXX
v1ex1sw-ibb01: Sun_Serial_Number : AK0029XXXX
[root@v1ex1dbadm01 ~]#

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)