Find TCP/IP Sockets Net-Libraries port number used by SQL Server 2000

When a
DBA is managing many different SQL Server boxes, it can be a tedious job to
find the port numbers used by all of the SQL Servers. In this article, I would like
to discuss several methods for finding the Port numbers used by SQL Server.

Method 1

In method
one, we are going to take advantage of the MS-DOS batch file, OSQL utility, and
the extended stored procedure "xp_regread".

Method 1
can be used only if the SQL Server service in the listed machines is up and
running and the SQL Login used in the Findport.bat has permission to access SQL
server and has permission to query the registry of that machine.

Step 1

Create
Folder C:\Findport, [Refer to Fig 1.0] and create C:\Findport\servers.txt. List
all of the server names and the named instance names in the text file, as shown
below.

SQL
MyComp
MyComp\Blonde

I have published
two different articles on how to find all of the SQL Servers on the network.
You can use those articles to publish this servers.txt file. Please refer to Scanning
the network for SQL Server for a range of IP addresses and Scanning
the network for SQL Server.

[Fig 1.0]

Step 2

Create
C:\Findport\port.sql as shown below

set nocount on
DECLARE @test varchar(20), @key varchar(100)
if charindex(‘\’,@@servername,0) <>0
begin
set @key = ‘SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Microsoft SQL Server\’
  +@@servicename+’\MSSQLServer\Supersocketnetlib\TCP’
end
else
begin
set @key = ‘SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer\Supersocketnetlib\TCP’
end
EXEC master..xp_regread @rootkey=’HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’,
 @key=@key,@value_name=’Tcpport’,@value=@test OUTPUT
SELECT ‘Server Name: ‘+@@servername + ‘ Port Number:’+convert(varchar(10),@test)

Download port.sql.

Step 3

REM Type: Batch File
REM Created by: MAK
REM Contact: mak_999@yahoo.com
REM Date created: Jan 1, 2005
REM Execute osql Servers.txt
for /f “tokens=1,2,3” %%i in (C:\Findport\Servers.txt)
  do OSQL -S%%i -t0 -Usa -Psa -dMASTER -ic:\Findport\PORT.sql

(Please
change -Usa and -Psa to your login and
password according to your environment or remove -Usa -Psa and add -E to use windows
authentication).

Download Findport.bat_

Step 4

Run the
batch file as shown below. [Refer Fig 1.1]

[Fig 1.1]

C:\Findport\findport.bat > C:\Findport\Findport.log

Step 5

Open the
c:\ Findport\Findport.log file. The result should look like that shown below.

C:\findport>REM Type: Batch File
C:\findport>REM Created by: MAK
C:\findport>REM Contact: mak_999@yahoo.com
C:\findport>REM Date created: Jan 1, 2005
C:\findport>REM Execute osql Servers.txt
C:\findport>for /F “tokens=1,2,3” %i in (C:\Findport\Servers.txt)
  do OSQL -S%i -t0 -Usa -Psa -dMASTER -ic:\Findport\PORT.sql
C:\findport>OSQL -SSQL -t0 -Usa -Psa -dMASTER -ic:\Findport\PORT.sql
1> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13>
	——————————————————————————
	———————————————————————–
	—————
 Server Name: SQL Port Number:2433
C:\findport>OSQL -SMyComp -t0 -Usa -Psa -dMASTER -ic:\Findport\PORT.sql
1> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13>
	——————————————————————————
	———————————————————————–
	—————
 Server Name: MYCOMP Port Number:1433
C:\findport>OSQL -SMyComp\Blonde -t0 -Usa -Psa -dMASTER -ic:\Findport\PORT.sql
1> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13>
	——————————————————————————
	———————————————————————–
	—————
 Server Name: MYCOMP\BLONDE Port Number:2433