This time I needed to get serial number of hp ProLiant DL380 server without taking the server out or even going next to that server so I find out that it’s pretty easy to get serial number of that server with a sort wmic command and some magic parameters.
Just open command prompt and say:
wmic /node:HOSTNAME bios get serialnumber
And you should get lines like:
SerialNumber ABC123DEFG456
And of course you can also do something like this:
wmic /node:%computername% bios get serialnumber
This same tip probably work most of ProLiant servers.
September 13th, 2011 | 
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That worked! Very helpful article this is! Thank you so much!
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This was very helpful, in return, I will point out that if you want the get the model name and number these two lines will get you there:
Rem Model name
wmic /node:%computername% computersystem get model
rem get model number
wmic /node:%computername% computersystem get oemstringarray
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This also works using 127.0.0.1 as hostname
What about the part number ? how can we get ?
Which part?
Wicked. used the 1st one, no luck. Used the second one cmd (%) on my Gen8 worked a treeeeeeeeet..Thank you for your post.
Did you notice that you had to write the computer hostname instead the word HOSTNAME for the command?
Boo hoo – I already used command wmic bios get serialnumber and all the above – this works for most servers, but with one particular server, the serial number returns ‘Serial Number’ and that’s it, it’s just blank. Any ideas?