Providing cloud customers with the machine serial number

Cloud customers need the serial number of the machine that will host their workload to request host key documents from Resource Link.

Procedure

  • On the HMC Systems Details Dialog, go to the Product Information tab.
    Find the Machine Serial in the table. The Machine Serial consists of the Country of Origin Code and the serial number. The seven right-most digits constitute the serial number needed for Resource Link.
  • Alternatively, read the two-digit Plant field and the five right-most digits of the Sequence Code field from /proc/sysinfo. The serial number is the two-digit plant number followed by the sequence code.
    For example:
    Figure 1. Output of /proc/sysinfo
    A secure guest connected to a Crypto Express adapter through binding
    Here 0212345 is the serial number, and the machine type is 3931.