System property to determine server ip address

[crazybugs]

Is there any system property available that can be used to determine the server IP Address at run time. I want to dynamically fetch the IP Address at runtime instead of hardcoding it in the configuration file.

[jaikiran]

Look at the methods available on InetAddress class http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/InetAddress.html

[peterj]

You do know that you can view all of the system properties using the jmx-console, right?

http://localhost:8080/jmx-console, select the name=Properties,type=Service MBean under 'jboss' and click Invoke next the the showAll operation.

Now here is a quiz for you: which system property gives you the IP address that you bound the app server to (the -b value)? There is also another property that gives you the host name.

[crazybugs]

I think the jboss.bind.address gives the   IP address to which it has to be bound. In my case I have specified it to be 0.0.0.0. In jmx- console I was able to find the value of server host name from property "java.rmi.server.hostname". However I was not able to find the value of the server IP Address.

[crazybugs]

Is there any system property that gives the server IP address

[peterj]

   >>Is there any system property that gives the server IP address

I showed you how to get a listing of all of the system properties. So looking in that list, did you see it? Perhaps it is time to try Jaikiran's suggestion.

[crazybugs]

Yes I tried the suggestion.

The jboss.bind.address gives the   IP address to which it has to be bound. In my case I have specified it to be 0.0.0.0 . In jmx- console I was able to find the value of server host name from property "java.rmi.server.hostname". However I was not able to find the value of the server IP Address.

I need to specify the server IP Address in "ClientAddress" property in uil2-service.xml file for jms connection. However I don't want to hardcode the value.

[shonkylogic]

crazybugs b wrote:

Is there any system property that gives the server IP address

There does not appear to be a system property showing server IP address.  But

InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress()

will give it to you, as per jaikiran_pai's original reply

[spangaer]

Since JBoss 6, there's a JBoss property: jboss.host.name

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-7779