Before You Turn Off Your Old Server…

… make sure you send us the hardware configuration

We often receive calls from our customers asking us to make an offer to purchase a server they have finished with. In order for us to correctly value your server and find every item of value in the server, we need to get the server’s configuration.

Quite often when we are offered a server and we start to ask about its details, we are told the server has been turned off and packed away and that they don’t have a copy of its configuration. This means they may miss out on getting some money for their old server.

Where we can, we like to buy pre-loved equipment and re-sell it again. This helps the customer we buy from, the customer we sell to, and the environment.

So here are the commands you will need in order to get that configuration to us.

For an IBM System i server:

• From the command line, type: strsst
• Choose menu option 1: start service tools
• Choose menu option 7: hardware service manager
• Then press “F6″ to print the configuration

Take the default page settings and either print the configuration to your system printer, or email it to us

For an IBM System p server:

• Type the following from the command line: lscfg -vp