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Probe IP address sensor

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I want to set a sensor on our Probes that will show the local IP address of the device. How can I accomplish this?

ip ip-address sensor

Created on Mar 13, 2012 1:37:38 AM



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Something like this will do in a batch file sensor:

@echo off
IPCONFIG |FIND "IPv4 Address" > %temp%\TEMPIP.txt
FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:" %%a in (%temp%\TEMPIP.txt) do (
set ip=%%a
goto end
)
:end
del %temp%\TEMPIP.txt

set "space= "
for /f "tokens=* delims=%space%" %%a in ("%ip%") do set "ip=%%a"
echo 0:%ip%

Depending on the localized output if the ipconfig command, "IPv4 Address" must be replaced by "IP Address", "IP-adres", "IP-Adresse" or something simular

Created on Mar 14, 2012 1:58:37 PM

Last change on Mar 23, 2012 3:29:23 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Hello,

that should be possible using a Custom Exe Sensor parsing the output of an ipconfig /all command.

best regards.

Created on Mar 13, 2012 4:25:02 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Something like this will do in a batch file sensor:

@echo off
IPCONFIG |FIND "IPv4 Address" > %temp%\TEMPIP.txt
FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:" %%a in (%temp%\TEMPIP.txt) do (
set ip=%%a
goto end
)
:end
del %temp%\TEMPIP.txt

set "space= "
for /f "tokens=* delims=%space%" %%a in ("%ip%") do set "ip=%%a"
echo 0:%ip%

Depending on the localized output if the ipconfig command, "IPv4 Address" must be replaced by "IP Address", "IP-adres", "IP-Adresse" or something simular

Created on Mar 14, 2012 1:58:37 PM

Last change on Mar 23, 2012 3:29:23 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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How do I set the EXE sensor to pull that information that is dumped to the file?

Created on Mar 19, 2012 7:48:19 PM



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Hi Will,

There is no need to pull information from a file. Simply create a new .bat file in the "Custom Sensor/EXE" folder of your PRTG installation, paste the code above and that's the complete sensor.

Regards,

Created on Mar 19, 2012 9:09:40 PM



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Thanks for the response. When I created the sensor it immediately went down and I could not get it to respond.

Created on Mar 20, 2012 11:07:48 AM



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Hi Will,

You are right, PRTG does not like the white space at the beginning of the response. The script returned something like

0: 192.168.1.1

what needed to be

0:192.168.1.1

I modified the script to remove the white space.

Regards,

Created on Mar 22, 2012 10:01:07 AM

Last change on Jun 2, 2015 12:31:18 PM by Luciano Lingnau [Paessler]




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