(imported topic written by sec84)
Hello,
a customer would like to get the position GPS of devices as Kiosk/ATM through relevance language?
These devices have OS Windows XP embedded.
Is it possible?
Probably. How would you do it if you were an admin sitting in front of that machine? Is the GPS position stored in the registry? Is there a command line app that we can run to get the value?
Are all of the windows XP Embedded devices on the same network? If not we could query a web service with the external IP address of the device… and then dump the response to a txt file for picking up later. Check out freegeoip.net as a test from 2 of your different XPE clients. Are you getting different results? If yes then we can engage the freegeoip.net/csv/$IPADDRESS$ save the CSV locally and parse the details for location information.
Let me know… I like working on puzzles.
~jgo
An intern worked on something recently to try to visualize on something like google earth where and how geographically machines in a deployment were distributed…
The thing he used was http://www.telize.com/
The problem with all of these IP -> geolocation services is that it will only give you an approximate location of where your devices are, so if being super precise is something you need, you might need to dig deeper for a solution…
This should do it:
Deploy Prey to track stolen computers - Windows
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/683
It will get its best guess for location based upon Public IP, or WiFi triangulation, or GPS if available.
It is open source, so you might be able to adapt it to report to a file on the system instead of to a web service, then pull in that data using BigFix.
I also use the Meraki MDM which is completely free and has GeoLocation abilities: https://meraki.cisco.com/products/systems-manager