11.5. Listing the Subnets
Problem
You want to list the subnet
objects in
Active
Directory.
Solution
Using a graphical user interface
Open the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in.
Click on the Subnets container.
The list of subnets will be displayed in the right pane.
To view the properties of a specific subnet, double-click on the one you want to view.
Using a command-line interface
The following command will list all subnets:
> dsquery subnet
The following command will display the properties for a particular
subnet. Replace <Subnet>
with the
subnet address and mask (e.g., 10.5.3.0/24):
> dsget subnet "<Subnet
>"
Using VBScript
' This code lists all the subnets stored in Active Directory. set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") set objSubnetsCont = GetObject("LDAP://cn=subnets,cn=sites," & _ objRootDSE.Get("configurationNamingContext") ) objSubnetsCont.Filter = Array("subnet") for each objSubnet in objSubnetsCont Wscript.Echo " " & objSubnet.Get("cn") next
Discussion
To display the site that subnets are associated with, include the
siteObject
attribute as one of the attributes to
return from the query. For example, the second to last line of the
VBScript solution could be modified to return the site by using this
code:
Wscript.Echo " " & objSubnet.Get("cn") & " : " & objSubnet.Get("siteObject")
See Also
MS KB 323349 (HOW TO: Configure Subnets in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory)
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