Well... terrific. I had a great response typed up and accidentally went back a page with backspace.
Welcome to the chassis SN mess! They are usually located on the server top lid near the front left corner... you know... so that they're completely inaccessible if the server is actually racked. If it's racked properly (and the sticker isn't damaged), you should be able to slide it out 4 or 5 inches to expose it.
It's one of the key documentation points I try to ensure colleagues get when deploying the servers ("Remember to snap a picture of the stupid SN sticker FFS!").
As for the HDD serial numbers, I *can* actually provide some additional tips for remote support. It's a bit messy, but you *can* get the HDD serial numbers over the wire;
In the above image, I've logged into the server via SSH using the localadmin account, then su to the root account. Then ran; /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -pdlist -a0 which will return a list of all physical disk elements on the adapter. It will provide a block of diagnostic text for each 'slot'. The disks are zero-indexed from slot 0 on (slot0, slot1, slot2, etc... ). Facing the front of the server chassis slot0 is in the lower left hand corner, and iterates up that column, then continues at the bottom of the next column over.
The key here is the inquiry data string that is returned from the block device. While each HDD vendor may return in a different format, you can usually intuit a couple things from the string;
Yellow - Make and Model
Green - Drive Firmware Revision
Red - Serial Number :-)
I hope this is helpful. Cheers!
