I believe in this case you will have to talk with the sysadmin and have an agreement about this requirement for your application. I don't know about Spiceworks, but I see nmap as an application working on layer 3/4, so you may be subject to firewall rules or anything defined in the security policy.
~Fred On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:26 AM, ojas dubey <ojas.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Rich,Fred,Scott,Viktor and Gerard for your replies. > > Actually I am neither the system administrator nor the person who set up > all the servers. I am developing an application which would provide the user > with a list of running Postgres DB servers from which the user can select > one. So I was wondering if scanning ports using nmap or Spiceworks would > get me into trouble with the System administrator for trying to flood the > network with my requests or not ? > > Regards, > Ojas > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Rich <rhd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Use nmap. Unless you deliberately changed the IP port you should have no >> problem. Are you the one who setup all the servers? >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Frederiko Costa <freder...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> True. However, I was just assuming that Postgres was running on default >>> ports. If not, you could also probe in port ranges or even probe the network >>> for open ports to have an idea and get closer. It might be faster option if >>> software such as Spiceworks is not being used. >>> >>> Spiceworks looks a good option too. >>> >>> ~Fred >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Scott Whitney <sc...@journyx.com>wrote: >>> >>>> That only works in the event that you have PG listening on port 5432. >>>> >>>> A product like Spiceworks will provide much more detail, presuming you >>>> have the IT credentials to talk to the machines. >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> >>>> nmap is the way to go. Try to scan for port 5432 in a range of IP of >>>> your >>>> LAN. >>>> >>>> ~Fred >>>> Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frederikocosta >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:52 AM, ojas dubey <ojas.du...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> > I wanted to know if there is a way to get the hostnames of all the >>>> systems >>>> > running PostGres DB servers on a local network on Windows (XP/Vista/7) >>>> using >>>> > JDBC or any other Java API ? >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Regards, >>>> > Ojas >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
