Read Registry

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March 25, 2009 at 4:04 pm

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I need a script to find below information from remote servers:
INSTANCE PORT Number (From Registry)
collation from SERVERPROPERTY
Could any one please help? Many thanks in advance

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vick.ram79 SSCommitted Points: 1637 More actions · Answer 1

I think you should check out xp_cmdshell. You can then create your own exe to read the registery and call it from the shell.

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 2

well, if you run the script below, it will read the registry and tell you teh listening port...

i duoubt this will work over a linked server, which is what i assume you mean by a remote server?

CREATE TABLE #GetPort

(

token varchar(100),

value varchar(20))

go

DECLARE @inst varchar(200)

DECLARE @inst1 varchar(100)

--Determine registry path and key

IF(charindex('\',@@servername) > 0)

BEGIN

SELECT @inst = substring(@@servername,charindex('\',@@servername) ,50)

SELECT @inst = 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server'+@inst+'\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp'

--SELECT @inst1 = 'TcpDynamicPorts'

SELECT @inst1 = 'TcpPort'

END

ELSE

BEGIN

if SUBSTRING(@@VERSION,23,1) = '7'

begin

SELECT @inst = 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\Client\SuperSocketNetLib\VIA'

SELECT @inst1 = 'DefaultServerPort'

end

else

begin

SELECT @inst = 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\Client\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp'

SELECT @inst1 = 'DefaultPort'

end

END

print @inst + '\\\\////'+ @inst1

INSERT #GetPort

EXEC master..xp_regread 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', @inst, @inst1

SELECT substring(@@servername,1,25) as ServerName, value as port FROM #GetPort

DROP TABLE #GetPort

Lowell

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CDBA Hall of Fame Points: 3266 More actions · Answer 3

Thank you both for the idea and scrpit. I am working on this..

I understand that the script given will work if I am connected to server only. However the issue is I can not connect to the servers. So I need to run this (similer) code against all servers (name will be found in a table) using some batch

If you have furher idea.. plz share

Thanks again

CDBA

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 4

i tried running the command over a linked server; basically i tried changing the last command to a 4 part command:

EXEC linkedservername.master..xp_regread 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', @inst, @inst1

got this error:

SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\SQLEXPRESS\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp\\\\////TcpPort

Msg 7411, Level 16, State 1, Line 43

Server 'db1' is not configured for RPC.

maybe if RPC was enabled for the server, but i dunno...it's getting out of my area of knwoledge.

i think you'll have to do this in a programming language, or use RegEdit to connect to the remote machines using your domain credentials manually.

you could also try SQLRecon.exe, which scans a network for servers and reports back a lot of information, but it is not possible via a linked server.

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CDBA Hall of Fame Points: 3266 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks a lot... I will try to explore from my end also and will post here if I get a better way..

Thanks again 🙂

CDBA