Batch-Getting BIOS Serial Numbers

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Our lab maps hosts to KVM Ports based on, not hostname, not IP address, but the BIOS Serial Number.

Like the last post, this is probably overkill on (Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $ComputerName Win32_BIOS).SerialNumber, but it's probably useful.  Possibly.

 

function Get-SerialNumber {
     param (
         [Parameter( 
             Position = 0,  
             ValueFromPipeline = $true, 
             ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true 
         )][string[]]$ComputerName = @()
     );
    
     process {
         foreach ($computer in $ComputerName) {
             try {
                 $wmi = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $computer Win32_BIOS;
             }
             catch {
             }
            
             $SerialNumber = $wmi.SerialNumber;
             if (!$SerialNumber) { $SerialNumber = 'ERROR'; }
             1 | Select-Object -Property @{
                 n = 'ComputerName';
                 e = { $computer; }
             }, @{
                 n = 'SerialNumber';
                 e = { $SerialNumber; }
             }
         }
     }
}