# system.device.getDeviceHostname?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-device-getdevicehostname/12460>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 12, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-device-getdevicehostname/12460 "2016-12-12T23:09:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-device-getdevicehostname/12460/2 "2016-12-13T00:41:58Z")

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If you browse to your device with the OPC Browser you will see that it contains a Diagnostics folder. Within the Diagnostics folder is a tag that contains the hostname. You can drag this tag into the Tag Browser and then read the value in your script with the system.tag.read() function.

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