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Sep 6 2008   10:40AM GMT

The best way to record the serial number for Cisco Devices for Remote support.



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
Cisco, Cisco 2950, Cisco 3745, Cisco 6500, Cisco Tips, IOS commands, Switches, Telnet

Imagine if you are accesing the remote router and need to figure out the serial number for a router or the Circuit IDs of the serial interface, then you may start looking your docmented data or call the remote technician to help you out in figuring these details. The best and easy way to get these details in matter of seconds is to put the serial number of each device in the Banner MOTD, and the circuit IDs in the serial interface descriptions.

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Shajee  |   Sep 6, 2008  12:53 PM (GMT)

Dear Yasir Bhai,

You can also simply run “show diag” command to get the serial number.

Regards,
Shajee


 

Yasirirfan  |   Sep 8, 2008  7:59 AM (GMT)

Dear Shajee

Thanks a lot for your sugestion, yes it can be