How to get the IP Address for your Local Area Connection on Windows Server?

Question

I want to create a batch or vbs file that will put together a url and executed. Part of that url needs to be the actual ip address of the machine. How I am able to get that IP address in a variable to include it on the script?

EDIT 1:

I found out that the command below will give me the IP Address, but still don't know how to get that value into a variable to use it in a script.

c:\> wmic NICCONFIG WHERE IPEnabled=true GET IPAddress /format:csv

Node,IPAddress
IP-0AFB,{10.25.5.2}

Answer 1

Here's some sample code I used in a previous script...

Dim myIPAddress : myIPAddress = ""
Dim objWMIService : Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
Dim colAdapters : Set colAdapters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select IPAddress from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration Where IPEnabled = True")
Dim objAdapter
For Each objAdapter in colAdapters
  If Not IsNull(objAdapter.IPAddress) Then myIPAddress = trim(objAdapter.IPAddress(0))
  exit for
Next

Wscript.echo "My IPAddress is " & myIPAddress

Answer 2

If you want to return the IP address into a variable, you could do the following:

Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE IPEnabled='TRUE'", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)
For Each objItem In colItems
            strIPAddress = Join(objItem.IPAddress, ",")
            *yourFunctionName*(strIPAddress)
Next

This code is taken straight from the Scriptomatic v2.0 from Microsoft's TechNet Scriptcenter. Found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd939957.aspx

Answer 3

Here is a way to extract the WMIC results into a variable in a cmd script:

@echo off
setlocal
set varcounter=0
set wmicmd="wmic NICCONFIG WHERE IPEnabled=true GET IPAddress"
for /f "tokens=1 delims={, skip=1" %%a in ('%wmicmd%') do call :SETVAR %%a
endlocal
goto :eof

:SETVAR
set /a varcounter=%varcounter% + 1
if not {%1}=={} (
    echo NIC %varcounter% address is {%1}
    set NIC%varcounter%=%1
)
goto :eof

Notice that since there may be multiple NICs, we have to loop through WMIC's output, which is accomplished by calling :SETVAR for each line of WMIC output (skipping the first one, though, and testing for any blank trailing lines. A variable is created for each enabled NIC found - the variables will be %NIC1%, %NIC2%, etc.

Line 12, starting with "echo NIC", can be removed once you have it working to your satisfaction.