RE: [TMF4.1.1] lowlevel command to obtain endpoint ip ad dress on NAT enabled TME

How about having the endpoint send up it's IP address via [w]post[z]msg
after it finishes login? You could capture that and do whatever you want to
with it (store it in a file, DB, etc...).



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From: owner-tme10-XtjxT7Vmt5b1ENwx4SLHqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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To: tme10-XtjxT7Vmt5b1ENwx4SLHqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [tme10] [TMF4.1.1] lowlevel command to obtain endpoint ip
address on NAT enabled TME

He'ss writing some allow policies and won't be able to run a task.

Jason Shamroski
Gulf Breeze Software
www.gulfsoft.com

"Napier, Ed" <Ed.Napier-0VvZYiCTZkr6SQ/niu2adgC/G2K4zDHf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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>Why not just create a task that ran a command (ipconfig) to tell you
>what the IP address is.  Then execute the task on the endpoint.  The IP
>address should be in the STDOUT.
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>Ed
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>address on NAT enabled TME
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>Thanks Gary/Jason. From Gary's explanation, the IP of an endpoint
>instance in a NAT enable TME is not available from any object database
>or registry on the TME. Your explanation does make sense, unfortunately
>it only confirms my fears! Looks like I'll have to abandon the thought,
>unless someone comes up with some magical way of achieving the
>objective( to provide the installer with more information for further
>analysis when/where needed). 
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>Thanks for all your swift assistance gents. Keep well and on track. 
>
>Napo 
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>Gary Hamilton <HAMILGAR-ygUJEDcBm8rQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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>02/24/2005 03:33 PM 
>Please respond to tme10 
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>obtain endpoint ip address    on NAT enabled TME
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>So you are asking for the real address of the endpoint that is on the
>other
>side of a NAT firewall?
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>This information would not be available to the Endpoint Manager. In a
>configuration like this, you would be using the name of the endpoint to
>communicate with it, and the name is converted by the appropriate naming
>service to an IP address, which will be converted to the real address
>when
>it passes through the firewall.
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>An IP address may be stored in the Endpoint Manager database, but this
>address is very likely to be the NAT'd address, not the real one. Is
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