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I need a way to identify current IP's for a specified Active Directory OU.
Does anyone know of a way, or perhaps have a script, that will associate current IP's to machine numbers by Active Directory OU?
One of the clever scripty people here might be able to produce a script that exports the machine names from an OU to a text file, then pings the machine names in the file and saves the results (which would be in the form of IP addresses) to an output file.
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I don't need something that would have to be maintained. It just needs to be able to take a snapshot of the current IP assignments of a specified OU so I can perform vulnerability and penetration tests on the machines within the OU. When I need to do another test I would execute the script again so any IP address changes would be reflected.
I thought, perhaps, someone had already done this. I have had script people tell me this shouldn't be very hard but no one has time to work on it.
I thought, perhaps, someone had already done this. I have had script people tell me this shouldn't be very hard but no one has time to work on it.
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Computer101
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Most times when this comes up, best option is to create a login script that captures the current IP and logs it to a centralized text file or (if you feel like doing some extra effort) a database.
It's a difficult thing to maintain on an ongoing basis any way you slice it, since if you're using DHCP for client IP addresses, what happens when a workstation's IP address changes?