How to see the exact location of the computer's object in Active Directory (AD) (4290502)

This article is to show you how to find the location of the QAS computer object in Active Directory (AD)

RESOLUTION 1:

To find the location of the object run the following command as root on the QAS machine:

# /opt/quest/bin/vastool -u host/ attrs host/ distinguishedName

It will return something that looks similiar to below

distinguishedName: CN=centos,CN=Computers,DC=yourdomain,DC=com

RESOLUTION 2:

Run the following command as root:

 # /opt/quest/bin/vastool -u host/ info id

It will return something similiar to below:

Kerberos: CENTOS$@YOURDOMAIN.COM
LDAP: CN=centos,CN=Computers,DC=yourdomain,DC=com