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External Farm FQDN

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Is there a way to look up what my External (and Internal, for that matter) Farm FQDN's are? I can't remember what I used during setup, and was wondering if there's a way to reference that info after the installation is done.Friday, May 29, 2009 1:17 PM
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Hi,
My recommendation, when all else fails, is to use wbemtest. This KB article walk you through the process of querying WMI directly. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938288. Under "resolution 1" it shows you how to change the externalwebfarm FQDNs - but at a minimum you'll be able to see what is null & what has a value.
Don't be scared off by some of the crazy sounding steps; take your time and you'll end up really being able to see & understand all the settings. I've come to really rely on WBEMTEST lately.
Regards,
Matt
Matt McGillen, PointBridge - https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/mcgillen_matt/default.aspx- Proposed as answer by sharadsharma2k5 Monday, June 1, 2009 10:55 PM
- Marked as answer by paulbrown83 Tuesday, June 2, 2009 2:20 PM
Monday, June 1, 2009 1:55 PM
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Hi
Please check this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb803611.aspx
To list the external Web farm FQDNs-
Log on to the Standard Edition server or Enterprise Edition server in the pool with an account that is a member of RTCUniversalServerAdmins group or has equivalent permissions.
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Open a command-line prompt.
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Navigate to the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 directory.
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To list the external URLs for the Web farm, type the following command. This command creates a remote of WMI setting values and will output the location of the report.
Lcscmd /web /action:ListWMISettings /poolname:<poolName>
For example:
Lcscmd /web /action: ListWMISettings /poolname:pool2
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Open the file using Internet Explorer or another Web browser and look up the values for the external URLs.
Lcscmd /web /action:ListWMISettings /poolname:<poolName>
For example:
Lcscmd /web /action: ListWMISettings /poolname:pool2
Thanks- Proposed as answer by sharadsharma2k5 Monday, June 1, 2009 10:54 PM
Friday, May 29, 2009 4:40 PM -
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You can also just run a validation on your front end if you want to stay in the UI.
Mike Stacy | Evangelyze Communications | http://www.evangelyze.net/cs/blogs/mikeFriday, May 29, 2009 4:41 PMModerator -
thanks for the tips. I did both suggestions here, and I'm wondering where I can find the web farm fqdn after running these. Maybe I'm just missing it, but I searched the resulting XML files and couldn't find it.
Another interesting point... when I ran the ListWMISettings command, the resulting xml file stated that my pool is not ready. Most everything is working fine, so is this something I should be worried about?Friday, May 29, 2009 5:57 PM -
Hi
You must have mistyped your poolname on the commandline. If you do this you will get:
ERROR (0xC3EC7814): Pool is not ready.
You should use
Lcscmd /web /action:ListWMISettings /poolname:<poolName>
as a command. fill in the proper values for your environment and things should work fine.
Thanks- Proposed as answer by sharadsharma2k5 Monday, June 1, 2009 10:54 PM
Friday, May 29, 2009 6:46 PM -
cool, i had just added the domain info to the end of it (pool.domain.local) instead of just pool. It's a success now.
Now, I remember the installation wizard a long time ago had a place to put an internal and external web farm fqdn. It was a while back, though, so where in this xml output file can I find what info I put into the wizard? this is probably simple, i'm just missing it.Friday, May 29, 2009 6:55 PM -
To answer your earlier question, run the validation against the Web Components role and you'll see the URLs listed in the output.
Mike Stacy | Evangelyze Communications | http://www.evangelyze.net/cs/blogs/mike- Proposed as answer by sharadsharma2k5 Monday, June 1, 2009 10:56 PM
Monday, June 1, 2009 3:11 AMModerator -
Mike,
when i run that validation, I get the following results in the xml output file. Is this a problem?
Execute Action Error: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Rtc.Internal.Wmi.UnableToDetectMachineFullyQualifiedDnException' was thrown.
Failure
[0x80131500]
Initialize Machine FQDN: atatlisdocsr2.core.gtri.test
WMI Repository Path: \\.\root\cimv2
SuccessMonday, June 1, 2009 12:18 PM -
Actually, I take that back. On Friday I moved the DC's in this test environment over to a new subnet, and I'm still getting around to changing the static IP settings on my servers. I fixed this server's network config and reran the validation on the web components server. In the results I see a Machine fqdn, which is just the server's fqdn, but I don't see anything that might represent what I filled out during the installation. The reason I want to find this is because I think I left the external one blank, and I'd like to know where to find that info as I'm rolling out my edge server.
Other curious things I found in this validation result... In the Check Connectivity section, I get a 401 unauthorized for both the Check GroupExpansion and the Checking Address Book Server configuration items.Monday, June 1, 2009 12:43 PM -
Hi,
My recommendation, when all else fails, is to use wbemtest. This KB article walk you through the process of querying WMI directly. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938288. Under "resolution 1" it shows you how to change the externalwebfarm FQDNs - but at a minimum you'll be able to see what is null & what has a value.
Don't be scared off by some of the crazy sounding steps; take your time and you'll end up really being able to see & understand all the settings. I've come to really rely on WBEMTEST lately.
Regards,
Matt
Matt McGillen, PointBridge - https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/mcgillen_matt/default.aspx- Proposed as answer by sharadsharma2k5 Monday, June 1, 2009 10:55 PM
- Marked as answer by paulbrown83 Tuesday, June 2, 2009 2:20 PM
Monday, June 1, 2009 1:55 PM -
Matt,
That kb article got me what i needed. and now I found the info in the xml output file from the lcscmd command as well. One more quick question though.. Does Resolution 2 on that article do the exact same thing as Resolution 1? Has anyone used resolution 2 and had the same results?
PaulTuesday, June 2, 2009 2:23 PM -
Paul,
Both resolutions in that article have the same end result. Typically it's much easier to just use LCSCMD, but both options are available.
Jeff Schertz, PointBridge | MVP | MCITP: Enterprise Messaging | MCTS: OCSMonday, June 8, 2009 6:29 PMModerator