serial number on linux not quite working as expected

[bbrendon]

For example on a dell tactical reports: /77NDZ12/CN70163475007C/
dmidecode reports : 77NDZ12

On a vmware guest trmm reports: None
dmidecode : VMware-56 4d fa 72 69 7a 39 13-aa 0e 17 06 9b 09 42 c8

Also note, windows guests on vmware also report the serial number dmidecode reports.

[wh1te909]

thanks will need to test on different hw, didn't catch this in my testing

[maffmeier]

We use a simple script to collect the serial, it is from the time before serialnumber was supported on Linux Agents.

Maybe it helps:

cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial