How to get ipAddress and RobotName Correctly

[Francesca_Piras (Francesca Pi)]

Hi everyone!

I’m settin up an outcome log for some users of my processes.
I’m facing two issues.

1. I’m retrieving the ipAddress in this way:
   Declaring the Dns variable as :
   Dns = System.Net.Dns

then assigning it to ipAddress:
ipAddress= Dns.GetHostByName(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList(0).ToString()

the issue is that UIPath seems to do not accept Dns :
it means: “Dns is a Net type, so can’t be used as expression”
Can anyone help me resolving this?

2. the second issue is that I can’t find anything that allows me to get the Robot Name. I’m able to get the machine name, but I’d love to refer in log to the Ronot name, the one in yellow here:
   
   Does anyone know how to get this? (if it’s possible)

Thanks a lot!

[Francesca_Piras (Francesca Pi)]

Hi Maria, what did I missed?

[Maria_Nolan (mn)]

No sorry, i deleted my response. Gave the wrong answer

[Palaniyappan (Palaniyappan P)]

@Francesca_Piras

it means: “Dns is a Net type, so can’t be used as expression”
Can anyone help me resolving this?

Is the variable dnsName set to type System.Net.Dns

And also
For this

@Francesca_Piras

the second issue is that I can’t find anything that allows me to get the Robot Name. I’m able to get the machine name, but I’d love to refer in log to the Ronot name, the one in yellow here:

Kindly have a view in this thread

Get name of the Robot (the name given to it in Orchestrator)

To get the robot name from the orchestrator, try using this API: Example - https://platform.uipath.com/odata/Sessions?$top=10&$filter=State eq ‘Available’ (gives information such as name, machinename, id, env’s etc… for first 10 robots which are available) More information here: https://docs.uipath.com/orchestrator/reference#robots-requests

Cheers @Francesca_Piras

[Francesca_Piras (Francesca Pi)]

thank you for n°2!

about n° 1:
dnsName isalready set as Dns.Net.Dns !

[rachrahul2 (Rahul Rachamalla)]

Good going.
Try this, keep the variable type as System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface[]
and the expressiong is System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces

Then do a for each loop:
get the properties by NetworkInteface.GetIPProperties()
Then from that get the dns address like IpProperties.DnsAddresses.

You will arrive at the final step heree:
Looping through all DNS addresses and finding the right one you need.

Reference docs:

NetworkInterface Class (System.Net.NetworkInformation)

http://www.robertsindall.co.uk/blog/2011/05/28/how-to-get-local-dns-server-address/

[bcorrea (Bruno Correa)]

for ip address declare the variable as String:

Dim strIPAddress As String = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(System.Net.Dns.GetHostName).AddressList(0).ToString

[AshwinS2 (Ashwin S)]

Hi @bcorrea
Try this

Validate IP Address in C#

Thanks
ashwin S

[nicolaeagratiela]

Hi Francesca,

Try this in a writeline activity and you will see the IP Address.

System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName(System.Net.Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList(0).ToString

Cheers,
Gratiela