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OBJSCAN
By John M. Brown
5/1/90
The Novell network stores information about network entities in the form of
an "object". A Novell network object may be a file server, print server,
bridge, network user, user group or any other network entity. This entity
may be physical (like a file server) or logical (like a user group). This
list of objects is stored in a special Novell database called a bindery.
Associated with any object in the bindery is a set of properties that
defines information about the object. These properties may include the
network address, list of members, descriptive information, etc.
OBJSCAN will display information about Novell Network objects.
OBJSCAN has the following syntax:
OBJSCAN objname|objid|objtype [prpname] [-P|-V|-H]
objname - This may be the object name, the object ID or the object type. *
and ? wild cards are acceptable. This argument alone will display
the object name, object ID and object type of each object that
matches up.
prpname - This is the property name if you wish to list just a particular
property of a given object. Including a property name will cause
-V to be assumed unless otherwise noted. Wild cards are acceptable.
-P - This will cause the property names to be listed under each
object. The properties will be listed as they are found in the
bindery table.
-V - This will cause the property names to be listed along with the
values of each property. The values will be listed as they appear
in the bindery table. This option will attempt to decode the
values into addresses, group or user names if possible. Otherwise
it will display the information in a hex/text format similar to
DOS debug.
-H - This will display properties and values as with the -V option,
but it will make no attempt to decode the information. All data
will be displayed in a hex/text format.
Object types currently defined in the program are as follows:
1 = Network User
2 = User Group
3 = Print Queue
4 = File Server
7 = Print Server
35 = Async Gateway
38 = Async Bridge
122 = MicroVax
258 = Bindery
321 = LanSpool Print Server
28416 = Rabbit Gateway
To try out OBJSCAN, go into the Novell SYS:MAIL directory. Look at the
directories there. These directory names are actually object id numbers.
Try some of these user ID numbers as an argument to OBJSCAN. OBJSCAN will
tell you who belongs to that ID. Go into the SYS:SYSTEM directory and check
out the directories that have the user ID as their name. You will find out
these belong to the queues defined for your server.
Try OBJSCAN 2 GR* <Enter>. This will print out all groups along with the
group members for your server. If you are using Async bridges, try OBJSCAN
38 <Enter> for a listing of all currently defined bridges. OBJSCAN 4
<Enter> is where the SLIST program gets its information. OBJSCAN * <Enter>
will display every object defined for your server.