Public IP Address

[Rotax04]

It would be really great to have Lansweeper include the public IP Address of an assets Internet connection for assets that are scanned out side of the local network. Have LSPush run as a service (something other than an obvious scheduled task that can be canceled by the user) and send the asset info to the lansweeper server over the Internet when the user logs on.

This would give us the ability to locate stolen computers.

[Jacob_H]

You could deploy a script to write it to a registry key, then set up LS on-prem to scan the registry key...  something like this:

$publicIP = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.ipify.org"
$regPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\MyCompany\NetworkInfo"

# Create the registry key if it doesn't exist
If (-not (Test-Path $regPath)) {
    New-Item -Path $regPath -Force | Out-Null
}

# Store the public IP
Set-ItemProperty -Path $regPath -Name "PublicIP" -Value $publicIP

[David_Goodwin]

Old post, but converted to batch to run on a scheduled task. Since this writes to HKCU it does not need admin rights. Just have to setup LS to scan the reg key value.

@echo off
setlocal

:: Get public IP using curl
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('curl -s https://api.ipify.org') do set publicIP=%%i

:: Registry path (HKCU for current user, no admin needed)
set regPath=HKCU\SOFTWARE\COMPANYNAME\NetworkInfo

:: Create the registry key if it doesn't exist
reg query "%regPath%" >nul 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (
reg add "%regPath%" /f >nul
)

:: Store the public IP in the registry
reg add "%regPath%" /v PublicIP /t REG_SZ /d %publicIP% /f >nul

endlocal

Seems to work as expected for us.

[AGNML]

Hello, so will this feature be added? It can be very useful for me to quickly match an IP address to a user when we receive critical alerts.

[chogan201]

Adding my vote that this is much needed.

[khancock]

I just wanted to bump this and see if anyone else has found a solution? Our School is now Remote / Hybrid and we have equipment going EVERYWHERE. It would be really helpful to know if when a device last checked in what it's Public IP was when we are trying to track things down. Granted we don't use the 192.x network internally so we can sort out as to what's offsite but that still doesn't give us any ability to track down ISP level issues.

[David_Goodwin]

We had a laptop stolen last night. The implementation of the public ip address would help our campus police department to track down the device. It would also help us identify networks we actually utilize by showing ip info that's not from a dhcp router.

[mc_connected]

Bummer! Good to know the status though. Thanks for explaining. Maybe this will be my next pet project.

I don't suppose LS is pluggable? Is there is a way to hook into the reception of an incoming lspush communication? That would be the perfect time to check for the sender's (external) IP. Or am I dreaming?

[Esben_D]

I've double check that this feature is still on the wishlist. Features on the customer wish list get development prioritization based on a combination of customer demand and difficulty to implement. Since this is a feature which is rarely requested and would require a significant amount of development, I can't unfortunately not give an estimated release date.

The best workaround currently is to find a third party tool which has some sort of location tracking function and deploy it on all your assets using the deployment module.

[mc_connected]

Did this feature ever get attention? I agree that it would be a great addition.