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hpuid—Reports Unique Identifier (UID)

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Syntax

 /sbin/hpuid [-d] [-e] [-s] [-v]

The Unique Identifier (UID) is a flashing LED on the chassis used to identify a box. This identifier can be a great aid when you are confronted with a server farm of hundreds of boxes.

On entry-level systems, the UID is a blue LED that is present on both front and rear panels. The LED is also a push-button, which toggles the state of the LED. The current state of the UID can be read or changed with the hpuid command.

On midrange and high-end systems (cellular/partitioned platforms) there is no push-button. The UID is not a single LED but a collection of all LEDs for the components of the running partition. Thus if there was a partition that consisted of one cell in cabinet 0, one cell in cabinet one, and one I/O chassis in cabinet 8, the UID consists of the following:

  • The three large digits on the cabinet doors

  • The Attention LED of each cell board

  • The Attention LED of the I/O chassis (located on the Bay panel)

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