HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

Deathtospam — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:59:43 GMT

David --

I'm not sure how to get this script to work. I've saved all of the blue code in a file called "enumvdirs.vbs", but when I try to call "enumvdirs -?" from a command prompt (Windows XP), it crashes with a VBScript error (invalid character on line 1). What am I doing wrong?

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

John — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:02:09 GMT

@Deathtospam

It's not actually a VBScript. It's a DOS batch file. Save it as "enumvdirs.bat"

Worked great for me. Thanks David.

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

Makhan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:42:50 GMT

Hi David,

Thanks for that script, but could you please describe the below loop that you are implementing. I dint get the logic entirely. I have used the script though :D

FOR /F %%A IN ( %SERVERS% ) DO (

FOR /F "usebackq skip=1 tokens=*" %%I IN ( `%CMD_ADSUTIL% FIND %PROPERTY_TO_FIND% -s:%%A` ) DO (

FOR /F "usebackq tokens=3,*" %%J IN ( `%CMD_ADSUTIL% GET %%I/%PROPERTY_TO_FIND% -s:%%A` ) DO (

ECHO %%A/%%I = %%K

)

Thanks!

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

David.Wang — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:08:28 GMT

Makhan - what part are you having trouble understanding?

It is standard FOR /F logic -- please see the output of FOR /? for the actual syntax to determine what is going on.

The quickest translation of the logic is:

For each servername from each line in the filename %SERVERS%

Use adsutil to look for all instances of the property "Path" on the server and parse out the metabase path

Retrieve the value of the metabase path and print it out

The entire magic is based on the premise that the Path metabase property determines a virtual directory mapping. Thus, when you list out all values of that property, you are listing out all virtual directories and their associated path.

I then added "how to scale an operation over a list of servers" just to illustrate how easy it is to scale an operation with simple, proper tools.

//David

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

Junu — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:11:27 GMT

How can we include URLs also in the output?

Regards,

Junu

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

David.Wang — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00:44 GMT

Junu - what do you mean by "URL" ?

The output already includes the URL on the left hand side and the physical path on the right hand side.

If you want W3SVC/1/ROOT to resolve to something else, use this script to enumerate the websites and associated host headers.

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/07/13/HOWTO_Enumerate_IIS_Website_Configuration.aspx

//David

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

Jas — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:28:42 GMT

Hello David,

Nice Article.

Is there way to detect if website has been stopped.

Becuase we have aspx applciation with background threads.

Applcaition does not shutdown properly if someone expilicitly stop the website.

Thanks

Jas

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

Junu — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:15:54 GMT

CScript C:\WINDOWS\system32\iisweb.vbs /query

The above command will display all website and its status. But I dont know how to include Virtual Directories also in that output. Any idea?

Thanks,

Junu.

re: HOWTO: List all Virtual Directories and Paths of a List of Servers

JCollum — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:49:20 GMT

Thanks man, this saved me a ton of time today.