How to obtain connection ID of signalR client on the server side?

When a client invokes a function on the server side you can retrieve their connection ID via Context.ConnectionId. Now, if you’d like to access that connection Id via a mechanism outside of a hub, you could:

1. Just have the Hub invoke your external method passing in the connection id.
2. Manage a list of connected clients aka like public static ConcurrentDictionary<string, MyUserType>... by adding to the dictionary in OnConnected and removing from it in OnDisconnected. Once you have your list of users you can then query it via your external mechanism.

Ex 1:

public class MyHub : Hub
{
    public void AHubMethod(string message)
    {
        MyExternalSingleton.InvokeAMethod(Context.ConnectionId); // Send the current clients connection id to your external service
    }
}

Ex 2:

public class MyHub : Hub
{
    public static ConcurrentDictionary<string, MyUserType> MyUsers = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, MyUserType>();

    public override Task OnConnected()
    {
        MyUsers.TryAdd(Context.ConnectionId, new MyUserType() { ConnectionId = Context.ConnectionId });
        return base.OnConnected();
    }

    public override Task OnDisconnected(bool stopCalled)
    {
        MyUserType garbage;

        MyUsers.TryRemove(Context.ConnectionId, out garbage);

        return base.OnDisconnected(stopCalled);
    }

    public void PushData(){
        //Values is copy-on-read but Clients.Clients expects IList, hence ToList()
        Clients.Clients(MyUsers.Keys.ToList()).ClientBoundEvent(data);
    }
}

public class MyUserType
{
    public string ConnectionId { get; set; }
    // Can have whatever you want here
}

// Your external procedure then has access to all users via MyHub.MyUsers

Hope this helps!