topic Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address in Operating System - HP-UX

FInd PC Name or IP Address

Bob Ferro — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:33:48 GMT

I have a Unix 11i system running BaanIV as the application. The user connects to BaanIV thru a Windows Client tool. Under normal conditions, I could do a grep and find the PC name for the user. This was very helpful when you wanted to identify who is logged on and where. I had to make a change and substitute a Unix script to interface between the PC and Unix. This was so a user could not log on more than their max amounts. By doing this I cannot find out where a user is logged at. Is there a way to query the Unix system to find either the PC name or the IP address? I tried netstat but to no avail. Our clients are running either NT or 2000.
Thanks,
Bob

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:36:54 GMT

How are they logging in? Do the users show up if you do a 'who' command? If so, try 'who -R'.

If you have lsof installed, that may be able to do it as well.

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Geoff Wild — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:41:32 GMT

Used to use Baan, 3.1....

Had a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
# triton31.usage
#
# Geoff Wild October 1998
# Set up environment
BSE=/usr6/triton3.1/bse
BSE_TMP=$BSE/tmp
PATH=$PATH:$BSE/bin
export BSE BSE_TMP PATH
# Set up logfile
logfile=/tmp/triton.usage.log
if [ -f $logfile ];
then
rm $logfile
touch $logfile
else
touch $logfile
fi
echo `date` >>$logfile 2>&1; /usr6/triton3.1/bse/bin/licmon6.1 -w|grep -v SERVER| wc|awk '{print "T
here are",$1, "Triton 3.1 Users"}' >>$logfile 2>&1

That may give you some idea - I'm sure there is a command to list userids connected...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Bob Ferro — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:44:01 GMT

WHen I do a who nothing shows. I will try the Baan/Unix script.

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Geoff Wild — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:47:16 GMT

Maybe something like this:
#!/bin/sh
#
#
#
# Modification Log
#
# Edited by Description Date
#
#

# Setup Environment
#

BSE=/usr6/triton3.1/bse
BSE_TMP=$BSE/tmp
PATH=$PATH:$BSE/bin
export BSE BSE_TMP PATH

#
#
date
licmon6.1 << EOF | grep -v -E 'licmon|END'
u
quit
EOF

licmon6.1 << EOF | awk '{print $3}'|grep -v -E 'jamaica|USER'| awk '{FS="."} {print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep -vE "^ [0-9] $"
who
quit
EOF

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Abdul Rahiman — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:32:12 GMT

Bob,

We use baan here too on different platforms. I normally use the netstat comand to find the client bshell user's hostname or ipaddress. You mentioned that "I tried netstat but to no avail.", ca you elaborate on that.

What I normally do is,
# netstat -an | grep "\.7150" | awk {'print $5'} --> for users signing on via blogind method
or
# netstat -an | grep "\.512" | awk {'print $5'} --> for logged on via rexec.

regds,
Abdul.

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Norman_21 — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:41:09 GMT

did you try this:
#last -R

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Bob Ferro — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:20:10 GMT

Thanks for everyone answer but the netstat give me the IP address but not the hostname (PC name). Normally when Baan use the bshell6.1 program, you can do a grep on a username and find the hostname, i.e. bferro@mypc where mypc is my hostname. When you intercept this process with a script, you look that visibility. How does Baan get the info?

Thanks again
Bob

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:23:51 GMT

Hi Bob,

If you drop the -n from the netstat command it will attempt hostname lookups & display that instead. Of course the PCs *must* be in DNS to get a name returned. If the IP is not resolvable then netstat will return the IP.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Bob Ferro — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:00:37 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Most of the PCs use DHCP (dynamic IP). The funny thing is that if you grep the Unix/BaanIV user name, the hostname or PC name would be displayed. Now that I use a Unix script instead of the BaanIV bshell6.1 program, I don't see it anymore.

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Abdul Rahiman — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:44:58 GMT

Could you post the unix script that you are using to invoke the bshell pls..?

~Abdul.

Re: FInd PC Name or IP Address

Bob Ferro — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:52:24 GMT

The Unix script is attached and the following is the results of the "ps -ef | grep rroth" command where rroth is the userid.

rroth 25266 623 0 14:29:50 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /baan/bse/bin/script6.2 -1 545 0 1
rroth 25275 25266 0 14:29:51 ? 0:06 /baan/bse/bin/bshell -1 545 0 1
rroth 25276 25275 0 14:29:53 ? 0:00 oracle8 (rroth:25275/PIPE) 25275 321 10 11
rroth 25278 1 0 14:29:53 ? 0:00 oraclebaanIV (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(SDU=8192)(TDU=8192)(AD