script to get monitor serial

fernfrancis · 05-17-2012, 07:39 AM

Hi guys

I have a couple of machines on my network i need to get the serial number of each monitor in the network remotely

can anyone suggest a script or any other mechanism where i can get the serial number with out disturbing the users.

pan64 · 05-17-2012, 07:55 AM

Do you think the monitors are able to serve it?

catkin · 05-17-2012, 08:07 AM

Which OS are the computers running that the monitors are connected to?

If Linux and they are running X then then the serial numbers may be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If they are not there then the monitors probably don't report their serial numbers but you could try with the read-edid package (might need the parse-edid package too). The protocol is Extended display identification data (EDID).