[unix] How to determine the IP address of a Solaris system

What command do I want to issue when I want to know the IP address of the Solaris machine I'm logged onto?

/usr/sbin/host `hostname`

should do the trick. Bear in mind that it's a pretty common configuration for a solaris box to have several IP addresses, though, in which case

 /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a inet | awk '/inet/ {print $2}'

will list them all

The following shell script gives a nice tabular result of interfaces and IP addresses (excluding the loopback interface) It has been tested on a Solaris box

/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a | awk '/flags/ {printf $1" "} /inet/ {print $2}' | grep -v lo

ce0: 10.106.106.108
ce0:1: 10.106.106.23
ce0:2: 10.106.106.96
ce1: 10.106.106.109

The following worked pretty well for me:

ping -s my_host_name

There's also:

getent $HOSTNAME

or possibly:

getent `uname -n`

On Solaris 11 the ifconfig command is considered legacy and is being replaced by ipadm

ipadm show-addr

will show the IP addresses on the system for Solaris 11 and later.

/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a | awk 'BEGIN { count=0; } { if ( $1 ~ /inet/ ) { count++; if( count==2 ) { print $2; } } }'

This will list down the exact ip address for the machine

Try using ifconfig -a. Look for "inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", that is your IP address

hostname and uname will give you the name of the host. Then use nslookup to translate that to an IP address.