11.15. Listing the Servers
Problem
You want to list the server objects in the site topology.
Solution
Using a graphical user interface
Open LDP.
From the menu, select Connection → Connect.
For Server, enter the name of a domain controller (or leave blank to do a serverless bind).
For Port, enter 389.
Click OK.
From the menu, select Connection → Bind.
Enter credentials of a domain user.
Click OK.
From the menu, select Browse → Search.
For BaseDN, type the
Sites
container’s DN (e.g., cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=rallencorp,dc=com).For Scope, select Subtree.
For Filter, enter
(objectcategory=server)
.Click Run.
Using a command-line interface
> dsquery server [-site <SiteName
>]
Using VBScript
' This code lists the server objects in the site topology. set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strBase = "<LDAP://cn=sites," & _ objRootDSE.Get("ConfigurationNamingContext") & ">;" strFilter = "(objectcategory=server);" strAttrs = "distinguishedName;" strScope = "subtree" set objConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objConn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" objConn.Open "Active Directory Provider" set objRS = objConn.Execute(strBase & strFilter & strAttrs & strScope) objRS.MoveFirst while Not objRS.EOF Wscript.Echo objRS.Fields(0).Value objRS.MoveNext wend
Discussion
Each Active Directory domain controller is represented in the site
topology by a server
object that is associated
with a specific site. Replication decisions are made based on links
from this site to other sites that contain domain controllers.
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