Short question, this has come to us from security and from what I can see there is no way to get this, I know we can do it manually, but not sure if it is in Snow. Is there a way to find the IP address issued by an ISP?

Ashers71 asked a question.

September 14, 2020 at 4:55 PM

Hardware & Device Management

AxelLa
6 years ago
I would agree that this is not part of the out-of-the-box functionality.
The Snow Agent performs a local scan and I am not aware that a client has any knowledge of the external IP adress.

You can add a custom powershell script to the agent scan that reads the public IP, using (Invoke-WebRequest ifconfig.me/ip).Content.Trim() in a powershell script.
You then need to stored the information into a custom field. This is a little work to do and requires some deeper knowledge of the system.
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Ashers71
6 years ago
Simple solution, next question then is are there instructions for adding powershell scripts to agent scans, not done one before.
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- AxelLa
  6 years ago
  It is actually not that easy.
  If you search here for "Yield-RegistryKey" you will find some hints how to handle that.
  
  What we have done for a customer:
  use a powershell script to collect the required information
  use "Yield-RegistryKey" to write that information into a "virtual" registry. This means that it will not be written into the registry of the client computer, but added to the inventory data as a registry key.
  This information will be available in the SnowInventory database and also transported into the SnowLicenseManager database. Unfortunately, these fields are not visible in SLM.
  we have created custom fields and added a custom procedure to the Data Update Job that copies the information into these custom fields
  Now the information is available as usual in reports etc.
  
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