Get the serial number of an AIX system.
#!/bin/ksh # # Get serial number of AIX server; # # October 28, 2009 Rich Kreider # ser_num=`lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F, '{print $2}'` prefix=`echo ${ser_num} | cut -c3-4` suffix=`echo ${ser_num} | cut -c5-9` echo ${prefix}-${suffix}