How to find out the serial number of a proliant server

In this article I show you how to find out the serial number of a HP Proliant server.

Unfortunately it is not so easy to get the serial number of an HP Proliant server. In the system management homepage it difficult to find.

HP has published a small script. It works quite well.

Simply save the following script as “serialnumber.vbs” and execute it.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_BIOS")
For each objBIOS in colBIOS
    Wscript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objBIOS.Manufacturer
    Wscript.Echo "Serial Number: " & objBIOS.SerialNumber
Next

The script should also work with other manufacturers, since it uses standard functions.