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Capturing server information with UNIX - reporting functions on multiple servers
Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting
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Capturing server information
with UNIX
For the Oracle DBA who performs reporting functions on multiple
servers, capturing the server name is very important. This is
especially true in cases where several databases with the same name
exist in several servers, and the report must show the server name
to properly identify the database.
The most common command to gather server information is the uname –a
command. Here is an example of the output from this command in
Solaris UNIX.
root> uname -a
SunOS goofy 5.8 Generic_103634-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
Here is the uname –a command on a HP/UX server:
root> uname -a
HP-UX penguin B.10.20 A 9000/871 2639229148 two-user license
Here we see that the first column is the UNIX dialect (SonOS,
HP-UX), the server name (goofy, penguin), the version of the OS, the
serial number of the server, and miscellaneous server information.
If we just need the server name for an Oracle report, we can extend
the uname –a command to capture the server name by using the awk
utility and parsing-out the first column of output:
root> uname -a|awk '{ print $2 }'
goofy
UNIX also provides the hostname command to display the server name.
root> hostname
goofy
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