Active Directory Cookbook

11.23. Listing the Connection Objects for a Server

Problem

You want to view the connection objects associated with a domain controller.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

1. Open the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in.

2. In the left pane, expand Sites, expand the site that contains the connection object you want to check, expand the Servers container, expand the server that contains the connection object, and click on the NTDS Settings object.

3. In the right pane, under the name column, it will display which connection objects are automatically generated (by the KCC) and which ones were manually generated.

Using a command-line interface

> repadmin /showconn [<DomainControllerName>]

Using VBScript

' This code lists the connection objects for a server
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strServer = "<ServerName>"  ' e.g. dc01
strSite   = "<SiteName>"    ' e.g. MySite1
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
set objNTDSCont = GetObject("LDAP://cn=NTDS Settings,cn=" & strServer & _
                            ",cn=servers,cn=" & strSite & ",cn=sites," & _
                             objRootDSE.Get("configurationNamingContext") )
objNTDSCont.Filter = Array("ntdsConnection")
WScript.Echo "Connection objects for " & strSite & "\" & strServer
for each objConn in objNTDSCont
   if objConn.Get("options") = 0 then
      Wscript.Echo "  " & objConn.Get("cn") & " (MANUAL)"
   else
      Wscript.Echo "  " & objConn.Get("cn") & " (AUTO)"
   end if
next

Tip

Another option for programmatically getting the connection objects for a server ...