PowerShell: Find other Servers in ConfigurationSet

Question

Does anyone know of a good method of finding the other computers in the current configuration set? I'm messing around with some logging features and I'd like to back up my exported logs by copying them to every server in the set, but I'd prefer to be able to dynamically ascertain that information rather than relying on a hardcoded collection.

Comments

Hello,

Starting from Adaxes 2013.2, you can store log records in an external MS SQL database, and, unlike the built-in logging database, it can store log records from multiple Adaxes service. For more details, see Database for Logging. Are there any reasons why you cannot use an external database for storing log records from all your Adaxes services?

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There is no real reason why we couldn't utilize an MSSQL db for logging. I might just give that a whirl. Thanks for the tip.

Back to the original question, is there a way to identify other servers in a configuration set via powershell?

Answer 1

Update 2019

Starting with Adaxes 2019.1 you can check all the services sharing common configuration in the Administration console. For details, have a look at the following help article: https://www.adaxes.com/help/MultiServerEnvironment.

Original

Hello,

Here's a sample script that updates the Execution Log with DNS host names of all Adaxes services that belong to the same configuration set as the Adaxes service where the script is run. The script can be run as a part of a Business Rule, Custom Command or Scheduled Task.

$configurationSetSettingsPath = $Context.GetWellKnownContainerPath("ConfigurationSetSettings")
$configurationSetSettings = $Context.BindToObject($configurationSetSettingsPath)

$dnsHostNames = $configurationSetSettings.GetServicesDnsHostNames()

foreach ($dnsHostName in $dnsHostNames)
{
    $Context.LogMessage($dnsHostName, "Information")
}

Here's a version of the same script that outputs the DNS host names on the PowerShell console. To be able to run the script, you need to be logged in to Windows as an Adaxes Service Administrator.

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi")

$admNS = New-Object("Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi.AdmNamespace")
$admService = $admNS.GetServiceDirectly("localhost")

$configurationSetSettingsPath = $admService.Backend.GetConfigurationContainerPath("ConfigurationSetSettings")
$configurationSetSettings = $admService.OpenObject($configurationSettingsPath, $NULL, $NULL, 0)

$dnsHostNames = $configurationSetSettings.GetServicesDnsHostNames()

Write-Host "Adaxes services that belong to the current configuration set:"
foreach ($dnsHostName in $dnsHostNames)
{
    Write-Host "`t$dnsHostName"
}