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Engaged Sweeper III

On our asset list we have around 50 of these "webservers" with almost no information, I am not sure what lansweeper is looking at to get the info or where it comes from. They look like this: 

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When I visit the associated IP address, it goes to this generic Sophos screen: 

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We use a Sophos firewall and have Sophos clients installed on each computer, and the ESMTP makes me think it's something do with how our Sophos filters emails, but I don't really have much else to go on. I would love if someone could direct me on how to get some more information on these "webservers."

Thank you!

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It looks like this person had the same issue scanning on a network with a Sophos firewall:
Scanning a public IP shows me my own firewall's information : nmap (reddit.com)

The firewall is acting as an email proxy to ensure all outbound email is scanned. This person disabled the proxy on the firewall to resolve the issue but if you're relying on that for email filtering I would recommend creating exceptions in Lansweeper instead.

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I scanned the subnets with Advanced IP Scanner, but none of the subnets actually included the IP addresses I'm seeing on Lansweeper. Scanning the individual addresses made them show up on Advanced IP Scanner but there was no information besides the IP, and saying it was "alive." Thanks for the suggestion, anything else I could try?

Is there no MAC address that shows up in the scan results for these IP addresses? An IP packet traversing the network must have a MAC address associated with it. If there's a MAC address follow mkhuber1's suggestion to look up NIC manufacturer to get a clue as to what device it could be - Advanced IP Scanner may even identify the manufacturer for you.

If there's no MAC address, I imagine some sort of host filtering is going on on the computer you're scanning from. If Sophos client is installed, try shutting it off fully (no Sophos processes should be visible in Task Manager) and try scanning again. These may be virtual IPs accessible only on the host you're scanning from. Check if these IPs are visible in Resource Monitor > Network tab > under Listening Ports.

No MAC address from advanced IP scanner. Even after I shut off Sophos client, IP address still allows me to scan, still with no MAC. Unfortunately it seems there are still some Sophos tasks running in the background I can't seem to kill, so that might be why. Using the resource monitor and looking at listening addresses, the IP does not show up. 

It looks like this person had the same issue scanning on a network with a Sophos firewall:
Scanning a public IP shows me my own firewall's information : nmap (reddit.com)

The firewall is acting as an email proxy to ensure all outbound email is scanned. This person disabled the proxy on the firewall to resolve the issue but if you're relying on that for email filtering I would recommend creating exceptions in Lansweeper instead.

CiaranC
Lansweeper Employee
Lansweeper Employee

Thank you for your assistance @Nisanth

Project Manager at Lansweeper

Perfect! I am a newbie when it comes to this stuff, your expertise is much appreciated. I can definitely add an exception for those items. 

You're welcome - Lansweeper showing these results as a webserver and FTP caused some confusion too and should be improved.

Cheers