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The Unique Device Identifier Retrieval feature provides the ability to retrieve and display the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) information from any Cisco product that has electronically stored such identity information.
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In order to use UDI retrieval, the Cisco product in use must be UDI-enabled. A UDI-enabled Cisco product supports five required Entity MIB objects. The five Entity MIB v2 (RFC-2737) objects are as follows:
Although the show inventory command may be available, using that command on devices that are not UDI-enabled will likely produce no output.
Each identifiable product is an entity, as defined by the Entity MIB (RFC-2737) and its supporting documents. Some entities, such as a chassis, will have subentities like slots. A Fast Ethernet switch might be a member of a superentity like a stack. Most Cisco entities that are orderable products will leave the factory with an assigned UDI. The UDI information is printed on a label that is affixed to the physical hardware device, and it is also stored electronically on the device in order to facilitate remote retrieval.
A UDI consists of the following elements:
The PID is the name by which the product can be ordered; it has been historically called the "Product Name" or "Part Number." This is the identifier that one would use to order an exact replacement part.
The VID is the version of the product. Whenever a product has been revised, the VID will be incremented. The VID is incremented according to a rigorous process derived from Telcordia GR-209-CORE, an industry guideline that governs product change notices.
The SN is the vendor-unique serialization of the product. Each manufactured product will carry a unique serial number assigned at the factory, which cannot be changed in the field. This is the means by which to identify an individual, specific instance of a product.
Perform this task to retrieve and display identification information for a Cisco product.
If any of the Cisco products do not have an assigned PID, the output may display incorrect PIDs and the VID and SN elements may be missing, as in the following example.
NAME: "Four Port High-Speed Serial", DESCR: "Four Port High-Speed Serial" PID: Four Port High-Speed Serial, VID: 1.1, SN: 17202570 NAME: "Serial1/0", DESCR: "M4T" PID: M4T , VID: , SN:
In the sample output, the PID is exactly the same as the product description. The UDI is designed for use with new Cisco products that have a PID assigned. UDI information on older Cisco products is not always reliable.
There are no configuration examples for the UDI Retrieval feature. For sample display output from the show inventory command, see the Retrieving the Unique Device Identifier section.
This section provides references related to the UDI Retrieval feature.
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Information about managing configuration files |
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Commands for showing interface statistics |
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Standards |
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No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature. |
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MIBs |
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CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB |
To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS XE releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL: |
RFCs |
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RFC 2737 |
Entity MIB (Version 2) |
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The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.
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Table 1 | Feature Information for Unique Device Identifier Retrieval |
Feature Name |
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Unique Device Identifier Retrieval |
Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1 |
This feature was introduced. |
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