How to check where a server is located.

[Tingli]

Nowadays, even the time zone might not be the actual system locations as very often the time zone will fit the users instead of the real locations.

The only accurate way is put it into an Excel list.

[Torsten.]

IMHO an admin must always know where his servers are ...

Due to private networks/IP addresses some tools (traceroute, nslookup, etc). may not really help. Turn on the locator LED and ask your onsite folks ... ;-))

[Patrick Wallek]

Naming standards are also useful in situations like this.

All of the servers at the company I work for have a 2 character location code as the first 2 characters of the server name.

PXUAS01 - Phoenix Unix Application Server 01

SELDB05 - Seattle Linux Database server 05

[Kapil Jha]

>>root@winpacl ~]# nslookup server_name

Manoj you should put the server name instead of server_name

#nslookup winpacl

It would tell you its FQDN (fully Qualified Domain Name) which may help.
What is the timezone and current time in ther server.

@Patrick:Yes Patrick I worked with a comp where server names used to tell a lot about sever eg location-application-clustered etc ;), not the case seems here :(

BR
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