Host ID on HP-UX

[Manjunath Shastry]

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.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

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..."

[Pete Randall]

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

Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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

[S.K. Chan]

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

[Denver Osborn]

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

[Jose Mosquera]

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.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Manjunath,

uname -i gives the machine identification number.

For licenses through ifor you would be using

/opt/ifor/ls/bin/i4target

-Sri

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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.

[Manjunath Shastry]

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.