We use a simple algorithm for generating our own skus amd so far it hasn't
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failed us.
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Manufacturer + most specific serial.
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1. Shorten the manufacturer to 3 characters (ex Dell Inc. to DEL and
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supermicro to SPM) this is just for convenience.
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2. Append the board serial, if available, else use the chassis serial.
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Board serial will be needed for blade nodes. We haven't seen any case other
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than some rare full chassis nodes not having a board serial. Even if they
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don't, they have the chassis serial.
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Haven't encountered a manufacturer where a uniquely identifing serial isn't
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encoded in smbios, so it is pretty reliable.
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On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Vasiliy Tolstov <notifications@github.com> wrote:
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> Very nice. I'm alredy hit this problem then generation cluster_id in
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> pacemaker based on uuid.
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> Does board serial and board-product always uniq?
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> <https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21#issuecomment-45602629>.
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