Serial Number - Discovery

Khanna Ji
Tera Guru

What is the logic behind serial number generation from Discovery? Can anybody explain?

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chuckm
Giga Guru

During Discovery, the serial number types are searched for in the following order: system, chassis, UUID, and baseboard. The first one that has a value that is valid (not in the Invalid Serial Number table) is populated on the form.  All of the Discovered Serial Number types are populated in the Serial Number table [cmdb_serial_number].  More details in the following community article:

Diving Into Serial Numbers...Diving Into Serial Numbers...

For example, during the discovery of this workstation, 4 serial numbers were found and updated in the Serial Number table [cmdb_serial_number].find_real_file.png

Since the system serial number type was the first valid one found it is populated on the form.find_real_file.png