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TimRiker
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Feb 26, 2020

Find all blade serial numbers with REST call

How to I discover the serial numbers for all blades in a VIPRION chassis over REST? The data in /mgmt/tm/sys/hardware and /mgmt/tm/sys/license seems to only include the primary blade. We'd like to run a report to insure we have support coverage on all blades and chassis.

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  • I don't believe there is a specific endpoint that will list the entire set of serial numbers. However, you can get the serial numbers from the slots using a 'util/bash' endpoint and sending a clsh command.

    Here is an example of getting the blade serial numbers:

    # curl -sku admin:${bigip_pass} https://${BIGIP-MGMT-ADDR}/mgmt/tm/util/bash -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"command\":\"run\", \"utilCmdArgs\":\"-c 'clsh tmsh show sys hardware field-fmt \| awk \\\'/\^sys hardware system-info/,/\^}/ {if(\$1==\\\"host-board-serial-num\\\") print $2}\\\''\"}" | jq .commandResult | xargs echo -e
        host-board-serial-num bld012429s
        host-board-serial-num bld012451s

    The core command is "utilCmdArgs": "-c 'clsh tmsh show sys hardware field-fmt" the rest just gets the specific serial information and dumps it in a more readable format.

    Let me know if this gets you closer to what you are looking for.

  • I'll test this out. This requires that the account has advanced shell access, correct?

     

    I only get one "host-board-serial-num" entry for the current blade. :(