How to Get Dell Service Tab On CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu Linux

This post will guide you how to get your Dell Service Tab from the command line in CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu Linux system. How to find your Dell Service Tab number via the Linux command. How to check the serial number of your Dell laptop computer under Linux operating system.

Get Service Tab of Your Dell Service Tab

You can use the dmidecode tool to get the various infomation of your Dell Laptop computer service tag. you can get the BIOS information of Dell server. and this command is not installed by default. So you need to install the dmidecode package on your Linux system.

For CentOS/RHEL Linux:
You can use the yum command to install the dmidecode tool, type the following command:

# yum install dmidecode

outputs:

[root@osetc_test ~]# yum install dmidecode
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net
* epel: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net
* extras: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net
* updates: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dmidecode.x86_64 1:2.12-7.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
dmidecode x86_64 1:2.12-7.el6 base 74 k

Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package(s)

Total download size: 74 k
Installed size: 191 k
Is this ok [y/N]:
Downloading Packages:
dmidecode-2.12-7.el6.x86_64.rpm | 74 kB 00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : 1:dmidecode-2.12-7.el6.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : 1:dmidecode-2.12-7.el6.x86_64 1/1

Installed:
dmidecode.x86_64 1:2.12-7.el6

Complete!

Get Dell Service Tab with Dmidecode command

You can execute the following dmidecode command to get out Dell service tab, type:

# dmidecode | grep -i serial

Or

# dmidecode -s system-serial-number