How do you find an IP address from Active directory
How do you find an IP address from Active directory, given that the machine is off/old/not online, and DNS and WINS do not have entries either (the name does not match what is in AD)
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Need more information on this one. DNS & NSLOOKUP are normally your first stop in chasing down a name to IP mappings. DHCP if enabled might help. You can also check event logs depending on what you are trying to find.
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The tool goes out and queries port 137 and 138 and prints the netbios information in a space delimited format. It will give you the ip address, user name (if logged in) and mac address.
I use it to locate machines that are hard to find. From what I read lofty does not have the luxury of doing nslookups as the Dynamic DNS is reporting incorrect information.
When I was working enterprise admin (Tivoli) I had to create ways to hunt down endpoints that were causing problems or not communicating with the environment.
Maybe I read this wrong if so I do offer my apologies.
I use it to locate machines that are hard to find. From what I read lofty does not have the luxury of doing nslookups as the Dynamic DNS is reporting incorrect information.
When I was working enterprise admin (Tivoli) I had to create ways to hunt down endpoints that were causing problems or not communicating with the environment.
Maybe I read this wrong if so I do offer my apologies.
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Nope, you read it right, kinda.
I want to pull the info straight out of AD. This extra tool will be useful assuming the name does not match and DNS/DHCP/WINS are all not telling me anything, but there is a legacy entry in AD I want to track down.
Take this example;
In U&C I find a computer I do not recognize, and I want to find out if it is a good system, or an old one that needs to be deleted.
DNS/DHCP/WINS all show nothing.
The machine is not being tombstoned, and does not show the red X, so, how do I track it down?
I have done the detective thing in the past, but I was hopeing that there was an easy way to do this.
Nope, you read it right, kinda.
I want to pull the info straight out of AD. This extra tool will be useful assuming the name does not match and DNS/DHCP/WINS are all not telling me anything, but there is a legacy entry in AD I want to track down.
Take this example;
In U&C I find a computer I do not recognize, and I want to find out if it is a good system, or an old one that needs to be deleted.
DNS/DHCP/WINS all show nothing.
The machine is not being tombstoned, and does not show the red X, so, how do I track it down?
I have done the detective thing in the past, but I was hopeing that there was an easy way to do this.
I think the safest and easiest way to handle those machines is to disable the account in active directory, then wait about 3 weeks checking from time to time to see if the machine shows up. If it does not show up then delete it.
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How do you disable a machine object?
in users and computers search for the computer, right mouse click on the icon and there is an option of Disabling the account.
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sorry - you are looking for the address - i am an idiot :)
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All these answers help with the old computer issue, but I guess the answer is more "Active Directory does not store the IP in any form"