Finding Your Serial Number Via “About This Mac” The easiest way to find your Mac’s serial number is from the “About this Mac” information panel. This can be accessed via the Apple menu, as shown below: Once open, click on the grey OS X version string. Clicking on this string will toggle the string showing the OS version, the OS build number, and finally your system’s serial number. Finding Your Serial Number Via the System Information Utility’s “About” Panel. Your second option is to use the System Information utility’s “About” panel. This is available by clicking “More Info” in the “About This Mac” panel, which can be accessed from the Apple menu. You can also access this tool in the “Applications - Utilities” folder or “Go - Utilities,” and then press “Command + I.” Here you can see your Mac’s model number and some hardware information in the Overview section along with your Mac’s serial number.
If the driver is successfully installed, you should be able to see a device with a name similar to /dev/ttyUSB0. Step 6: Open Screen. Run sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 to connect to the Omega’s serial terminal using screen. If the screen remains blank, hit enter again to get to the command prompt. For many license types in the COMSOL product family, your COMSOL sales. Obtaining the HostID on Linux. If your sales representative asks you for the C: hard disk serial number instead of the HostID, type vol at the Windows. In the Network Utility, depending on where the Mac gets its IP address and hostname.
Another useful tip: You can also use this utility, as will many other applications in OS X, to speak out the serial number. You can either highlight the serial number, right-click it and select “Start speaking” in the “Speech” section, or you can simply highlight the serial number and click “Command + 4.” Doing the former will result in your serial number being told to you in a rather fast pace while the latter will narrate it in a natural, slow pace. Finding Your Serial Number Via OS X Terminal Your third option is to look up the system’s serial number in the OS X Terminal, which may be useful if you are logged into a remote system via SSH. To do this you will need to use the “systemprofiler” command. This command when used by itself will generate the same lengthy report that’s produced when you open the System Information utility, so used alone it may offer too much information.
However, you can limit its output to showing only hardware information (which contains the system’s serial number) by running the following version of the command.