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 >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> >
