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by Anonymous User on Fri Feb 03, 2006 at 02:39:49 PM PDT

It doesn't make the serial numbers any easier to find or to read, but once you are past that, there is a tool from Sun for permanently storing the serial (and other asset data that you want handy), and giving you simple access to it in software.

It's called SNEEP and is available from http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4304155a

"Sneep provides a persistent, software-accessible Chassis Serial Number (CSN) for virtually all Sun Solaris hardware platforms. Sneep uses the system EEPROM for storage of the Chassis Serial Number and any other important user-defined data such as asset, contract, or location information. The presence of the software-accessible serial number and other service-related information can significantly simplify activities related to system service and asset management."

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