SharePoint 2010 - How to Get Farm Servers Through Code?

In this article we can explore the following code:

• Retrieve Name & Type of all Servers in the Farm

Farm

A SharePoint Farm consists of multiple servers with roles associated with each. For example a typical 500 user Farm can contain:

1. Web Front End Server
2. Application Server
3. Database Server
4. Email Server
5. Searcy Index Server

The following is a typical output from a Server Farm.

Code

Here we are using the Server Object Model code to retrieve the farm information.

For getting a Farm instance, we can use the SPFarm.Local property.

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;
SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local;

For iterating through the servers, we can use the Servers property of the Farm object.

foreach (SPServer server in farm.Servers)
{
}

For retrieving the Name, Role and Type we can use the instance properties of SPServer.

• server.Name

• server.Role

• server.TypeName

The following is the console application code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

namespace EnumFarmServers

{

class Program

{