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Host ID on HP-UX

Manjunath Shastry — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:33:55 GMT

I have an Application which uses a Host ID. I would like to know, if is there anything specific called HOST ID from the Operating System point of view and If there 's one, how do I get it ?

Would appreciate your help.

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

S.K. Chan — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:08:13 GMT

It's also called LAN Addr and you can use this command to get it ..
# lanscan
The 2nd column under "Station Address" .. it usually starts with "0x0800..."

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

Pete Randall — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:08:15 GMT

Are you referring to hostname?
The hostname command will give you the name of the host.

Pete

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:08:37 GMT

Yes, there is a HOST ID. You can get it by doing a 'uname -i'. This is also called the machine id number. Do a 'man uname' for more info.

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:19:03 GMT

I should also mention that uname -i returns the hostid returned by the gethostid() system call.

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

S.K. Chan — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:39:24 GMT

On the other hand .. you might be talking about the "machine ID" .. ? If that's the case ..
# uname -i
would give you that.

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

Denver Osborn — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:40:40 GMT

There's a "machine id" that should be a unique number for each host... you can use "uname -i" to obtain the machine id.

Hope this helps,
-denver

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

Jose Mosquera — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:41:44 GMT

Hi,

You can obtain the host ID number by:

#uname -i

The "-i" option display the machine identification number (or the node name, if the machine identification number cannot be determined).

Rgds.

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:43:36 GMT

Hi Manjunath,

uname -i gives the machine identification number.

For licenses through ifor you would be using

/opt/ifor/ls/bin/i4target

-Sri

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:43:48 GMT

Typically that means the MAC address of the network card; lanscan can give that. You might also be referring to the ID needed for some software licensing. /opt/ifor/ls/bin/i4target will give one value.

Re: Host ID on HP-UX

Manjunath Shastry — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:36:52 GMT

Thank you for the help. The application Hypermesh is arriving at a number after a calculation which netither matches with the output of uname -i or lanscan. I have a backup of the file and let me not worry about it.