Taking Inventory on Cisco Devices

Have you ever wanted to quickly identify your router or switch platform as well as it's installed modules and the serial numbers of each? Well there is a simple command that you can use to access all of this data on a Cisco IOS device:

Router#sh inventory raw
NAME: "Chassis", DESCR: "Cisco 7206VXR, 6-slot chassis"PID: CISCO7206VXR , VID: , SN: 4294967295
NAME: "I/O and CPU Slot 0", DESCR: "I/O and Processor Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "NPE400 0", DESCR: "Cisco 7200VXR Network Processing Engine NPE-400"PID: NPE-400 , VID: , SN: 11111111
NAME: "NPE Inlet Temperature 0", DESCR: "NPE Inlet Temperature Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "NPE Outlet Temperature 0", DESCR: "NPE Outlet Temperature Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "+3.45 V Voltage 0", DESCR: "+3.45 V Voltage Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "+5.15 V Voltage 0", DESCR: "+5.15 V Voltage Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "+12.15 V Voltage 0", DESCR: "+12.15 V Voltage Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "-11.95 V Voltage 0", DESCR: "-11.95 V Voltage Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "module 0", DESCR: "I/O FastEthernet (TX-ISL)"PID: C7200-IO-FE-MII/RJ45=, VID: , SN: 4294967295
NAME: "Flash Card Slot Container I/O 0", DESCR: "Flash Card Slot Container I/O"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "disk0", DESCR: "Cisco 7200 I/O PCMCIA Flash Disk, 64M"PID: MEM-I/O-FLD64M , VID: , SN:
NAME: "I/O Cont Inlet Temperature 0", DESCR: "I/O Cont Inlet Temperature Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "I/O Cont Outlet Temperature 0", DESCR: "I/O Cont Outlet Temperature Sensor"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "FastEthernet0/0", DESCR: "DEC21140"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PA Slot 1", DESCR: "PA Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PA Slot 2", DESCR: "PA Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PA Slot 3", DESCR: "PA Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PA Slot 4", DESCR: "PA Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PA Slot 5", DESCR: "PA Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PA Slot 6", DESCR: "PA Slot Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PEM 0", DESCR: "Power Supply Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "Power Supply 1", DESCR: "Cisco 7200 AC Power Supply"PID: PWR-7200-AC , VID: , SN:
NAME: "PEM 1", DESCR: "Power Supply Container"PID: , VID: , SN:
NAME: "Power Supply 2", DESCR: "Cisco 7200 AC Power Supply"PID: PWR-7200-AC , VID: , SN: