Get ipaddress via script

[bjorne78]

Hi,

I hope someone are able to put me on the right track. I work at a pretty big company and we got about 3000 windows servers. We are installing them using unattended installations. My "problem" is that we can´t use DHCP on the server networks so we have to boot Winpe and start some HTA files to set the ip address, servername, timezone etc.

Now I would like to get rid of these manual steps. Maybe I could store them in a database and just have a script on the winpe cd that reads the serial number and then look in the database to see which ipaddress and servername that should be used for the particular installation.

There must be someone out there who got the same issue... Maybe someone already got scripts for this or another great solution.

Regards B

[gunsmokingman]

Hi,

I hope someone are able to put me on the right track. I work at a pretty big company and we got about 3000 windows servers. We are installing them using unattended installations. My "problem" is that we can´t use DHCP on the server networks so we have to boot Winpe and start some HTA files to set the ip address, servername, timezone etc.

Now I would like to get rid of these manual steps. Maybe I could store them in a database and just have a script on the winpe cd that reads the serial number and then look in the database to see which ipaddress and servername that should be used for the particular installation.

There must be someone out there who got the same issue... Maybe someone already got scripts for this or another great solution.

Regards B

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[mmarable]

Such a thing is pretty simple really. You don't have to go as far as creating a database, you could put it into a simple CSV file like this:

serialnumber,IPAddress,Server

serialnumber2,IPAddress2,Server2

....

and so on.

Depending on your hardware, you could probably pull the serial number directly from the BIOs, look that S/N up in the CSV table and then plug in the IP address and server into your build process.