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Originally Posted by liquidlight
I may be off base, but from my experience that information is usually used internally by corporations for asset management and tracking. The values can be assigned by IT staff to differentiate between cloned systems that use similar/identical software identifiers.
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that is one of the uses, its an easy way to get the SN from a system remotely, i can grab a systems SN remtely in about 30 sec. much quicker than walking across campus. its not just for cloned systems, usualy when you clone a system fror distrubution, you run a utility that strips the SIDS so it will recreate new random ones when each of the close are booted, removing the duplicates. more over it is a good way to track it, but note, i think it can be changed, (fairly easily) so dont count on it being the best way to get it back.