I know in Windows there's a way to do it for sure. On a Mac, I don't know off hand.

This works in dscl interactive mode:
In terminal type: "dscl" and then Enter (without quotes)
Type: "read Configure"

And you'll get the IP Address.

I can't quite figure it out without interactive mode though. There are other suggestions online about scanning with netstat -a and grepping out based on ports or traffic. But that seems like it's a big resource hog.

@Chuey what @bpavlov said with netstat may work.

Something like:

netstat | grep "389"

Or whichever port or maybe grep the domain name. But domain name may show results for other things.

@Chuey You could also have a look at the AD Dynamic Data:

Everything:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS "last used servers"

Just the last used Global Catalog server:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :last used servers:/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS/Global Catalog:host:" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS.plist

Just the last used DC:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :last used servers:/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS/jigsawsystems.internal:host:" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS.plist

Should output something like:

{
"/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS/Global Catalog" = {
Priority = 0;
Weight = 100;
flags = 1;
host = "xxx-dc-01.jigsawsystems.internal";
port = 3268;
};
"/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS/jigsawsystems.internal" = {
Priority = 0;
Weight = 100;
flags = 1;
host = "xxx.jigsawsystems.internal";
port = 389;
};
}

xxx-dc-01.jigsawsystems.internal

xxx.jigsawsystems.internal

Basic EA would be:

#!/bin/sh

#Check AD Dynamic Data



if [ -f "/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS.plist" ]; then

    result=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :last used servers:/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS/jigsawsystems.internal:host:" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/JIGSAWSYSTEMS.plist`

    echo "<result>$result</result>"

else

    echo "<result>Dynamic Data Missing</result>"

fi

fi

Thanks @TomH. After tweaking this script works perfect and returns the information I was looking for

@Chuey no problem, what did the final script look like as i didn't actually try that EA.

Cheers,

Tom

@TomH I tweaked it and it looks like this now:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -f "/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/xxxx.plist" ]; then

    result=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :last used servers:/Active Directory/DCS/dcs.xxxx.net:host:" /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/xxxx.plist`



    echo "<result>$result</result>"

else

    echo "<result>Data Missing</result>"

fi