topic Re: HOSTID in Operating System - HP-UX

HOSTID

P.V.Ramesh — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:34:04 GMT

Hi

How do i find hostid of a machine

Re: HOSTID

Pete Randall — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:40:13 GMT

uname -i

with the following caveat:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xfcad4e49c5cdd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

Re: HOSTID

Sajid_1 — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:43:09 GMT

I am assuming you are asking a similar command of Sun's 'hostid'? In HP-UX, you will get the Ethernet h/w address (host id) from this command:

# lanscan

Look at the station address field

Re: HOSTID

Rainer von Bongartz — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:05:29 GMT

use the getconf command

see man getconf

I your case getconf MACHINE_IDENT

Regards
Rainer

Re: HOSTID

P.V.Ramesh — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:59:56 GMT

Hi sajid

The answer is wrong. Pete is correct. It gives the number in decimal, where as lmhostid coverts this into hex and reads.
Every machine has it's own identification number called "HOSTID". The answer what i have received from is the MAC address of the ethernet.

Hi Rannel

I am sorry if spell your name wrong. The option which you have mentioned with getconf is not working. I am using HP-UX 11.00. I have gone through the man page of getconf. That option is not available

Re: HOSTID

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:26:04 GMT

Also there is commnad like this

/opt/ifor/ls/bin/i4target -v

to get the SPU id.

Manoj Srivastava

Re: HOSTID

Rainer von Bongartz — Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:09:44 GMT

getconf MACHINE_IDENT

is implemented in 11i not in 11.0

So better post your OS version in the future to avoid misunderstandings

Regards
Rainer

Re: HOSTID

T G Manikandan — Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:44:32 GMT

If you are talking of the machine ID i.e. uname -i
then

Pete link is the right one.
If you are talking about the hostid(derived from MAC address)

then you have to get it from

#/usr/sbin/lanscan | grep 0x | cut -c12-23

Thanks