Huawei TaiShan Troubleshooting Manual page 86

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Obtaining a Product SN
Use one of the following methods to obtain a product SN:
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Description
Vendor code (two characters). The value 10 indicates Huawei
and other values indicate outsourcing vendors.
Year and month (two characters).
● The first character indicates the year. The digits 1 to 9 indicate
2001 to 2009, the letters A to H indicate 2010 to 2017, the
letters J to N indicate 2018 to 2022, and the letters P to Y
indicate 2023 to 2032.
NOTE
The years from 2010 are represented by upper-case letters excluding I,
O, and Z because the three letters are similar to the digits 1, 0, and 2.
● The second character indicates the month. The digits 1 to 9
indicate January to September, and the letters A to C indicate
October to December respectively.
Sequence number (six characters).
RoHS compliance (one character). Y indicates environmental-
friendly processing.
Internal model, that is, product name.
Use SmartKit.
Use the server inspection function of SmartKit to obtain ESNs in batches. For
details about the product SN, see "Asset Inspection Information" > "Board SN"
in the inspection report.
View the product label.
A product label is attached to each Huawei server. You can view the product
label to obtain its ESN. The product label position varies with the server
model. For details, see the user guide of a specific server.
– Figure 8-2 shows the product SN of a TaiShan rack server.
Figure 8-2 TaiShan rack server product SN
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