Machine Serial Number

Hi,
I would like to programmatically find the Serial Number of a Sun Solaris box. I know it was not possible earlier but am curious if Sun has added any new command/tool to find out the serial number of a machine.
Is there any roundabout way of finding it?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Nimish

Some of the new Sun hardware has machine-readable serial numbers, but they generally are not (yet) easy to access. Most of them are available on the System Controller or from the ALOM (Advanced Lights-Out Management). Some have it in the FRUID data from prtfru.
There is a new tool from Sun called "SNEEP" (Serial Number in EEPROM) which, once you have the serial number, will make it easy to get to when you need it, and will keep serial (and other) data safe .
It's very easy to use and very flexible for storing and retrieving serial and other data that you want to associate closely and permanently with the hardware. [ asset information, location, contract, serials for attached storage, whatever you want ]
You can download sneep from the Sun Download Center at http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4304155a
Documentation is also available for download there.
Sneep provides a simple interface, preserves the data even if the eeprom is erased, and even updates the serial number for you in the explorer configuration.
If you've already made the effort of putting the serial into the explorer (or CST) configuration, sneep will pick it up from there automatically.
Right now, sneep doesn't have access to the serial data in the ALOM or SC, but sneep will be updated to pick up this information whenever possible, so that you can use the same mechanism to handle serial and other information on all your Sun systems.
It runs on SPARC and x86, and although the x86 doesn't have a true EEPROM, it still has a lot of value. Solaris x86 is getting support for reading the serial from BIOS, but not all manufacturers provide the data to the BIOS.
At worst case, you enter it manually once, and sneep will protect it and keep it handy.

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