GetIP Overview

When you have an ADSL connection or dial up connection to the Internet, the ISP you log in to will assign you a temporary official IP address. GetIP is an application that retrieves the official IP assign on to your personnel computer or network by your ISP provider.

This IP is then send to you on your email, with this IP you can configure for access to your personnel computer remotely, perform file transfer, access POP server, access newsgroup, bypass corporate firewall and etc. For support please register GetIP, to register look at “How to register”.

When GetIP is running, the application icon will be display on the taskbar as shown above. You can right double click on it to bring up GetIP screen.

Log Activities

This is the first screen when GetIP start. The first screen display the application running status for the viewer to review and determine the status of the application. From the screen, log messages can be scroll up, down, left and right to enable viewing of the generated log messages.

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Field	Description
C1	The log message window, each log entry is display in one row.
C2	Log entries, the anatomy of the log message are described below.
C3	‘Register’ button that bring up registration screen and display the application version and links to more information. To register look at “Registering GetIP”
C4	“Send IP’ button to immediately invoke the application to run. Please see “Send IP Immediately”

The log screen display ongoing activities perform by the application. This log can be examined to determine what the application is doing; the anatomy of the log is described below:

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Field	Description
L1	Date & time the log message was generated
L2	Log type, can be the following: · Info : Informational, no action require · Warn: Operation is not suspended, but correction should be taken · Eror: Operation suspended and contain error that need to be corrected
L3	The descriptive message generated by the system

The log will always be appended from the application activities; even so the system will remove the earliest log entries to avoid overflowing the system with too many ongoing log entries. Log with (Eror) entries should be examine and corrected if possible.

Send IP Immediately

GetIP is a application design to run 24x7 on your personnel computer. It continuously stay running on the install PC and wakes up periodically to scan for the official IP address and send them out via the configured email. But if you need to scan for the IP without waiting for the next scheduled scanning, click on the “Send IP” button and the scanning will perform immediately. This button will be disabled while scanning operation is running.

Configure Email

This screen is access by clicking on the second tab of the application screen. This is where GetIP determine the email address to send the IP scanning results to. The application uses SMTP protocol to send out the email for each of the email address stated in the system. To be able to do this, you will need to have an account from either your ISP or any SMTP server site that allow you to send email.

The “Configure Email” screen consist of two part, the first is where the details of the SMTP server configuration is store. The second part is where email address configuration can be added, modify or delete. The screen descriptions and details are shown below:

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Email Server

SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is an Internet standard outlined by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to be used for sending email messages. This part of the screen enables you to configure the SMTP details for GetIP to use when sending out email.

Field	Description
S1	The SMTP server name from your ISP provider e.g. smtp.attwireless.net
S2	The user id to login into the SMTP server, your ISP should had given you this
S3	The password to S2 user id
S4	The email address you want to appear from the send email, typically your own email address
S5	When this is click, the text in the subject will contain the retrieve IP address, this enable the IP address to be obtained without opening the content of the email. The placeholder ‘[IP]’ in the subject will be replaced by the retrieved official IP address.
S6	The email subject that you want to appear from the email send out

Add/Modify/Delete Email Address

This is the second part of the “Configure Email” screen. This part enables you to add in one or more email that need to receive the result of the scanned official IP address.

Field	Description
E1	The added email address to send out
E2	The content of the email. The placeholder ‘[IP]’ in the content will be replaced by the retrieve official IP address.
E3	Click the “Add” button to add more email address, the add email screen is describe below.
E4	You can modify the added email address to send out by clicking on this button. To modify one of the added email address entry, you must first click on the row of that email before clicking on the “Modify” button.
E5	You can delete the added email address. To delete one of the added email address entry, you must first click on the row of that email to delete before clicking on the “Delete” button.

When the “Add” or “Modify” button is click, the screen below will appear for the user to fill in the email address and the email content that will be send out to the specify email address. The “Email Address” field and the “Email Body” field will be fill with the value of the record when modifying an existing email entry.

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Field	Description
A1	The email address e.g. support@rekata.net
A2	The content of the email to be sent out. Here the placeholder “[IP]” is replace with the retrieved official IP address.

Send Schedule

The tab in the application is use to configure the application scanning duration, number of times and the time to send email out and whether to send email whenever the IP changes.

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Scan Duration – S1

The scan interval duration is set to enable GetIP to periodically to wake up and check the IP give to the running host from the ISP. Please not, setting this value to a very small duration will take up your computing resources, thus set the value accordingly to ensure optimum use of the computing resources and how frequently you need to check for the system IP.

Email Frequency

Control the number of times email should be sent out. The starting time for the email to send out is set in “Send Time” section, the interval between each sent depends on the frequency set, e.g. if the frequency is set at 8 per “day”, then email will be sent out every 3 hour (8 x 3 = 24 hour). Since email is sending depends on the scanning interval, the scanning duration should be always smaller then the sending interval, in this example 3 hour.

Field	Description
F1	The number of times to sent out email. Set a number to this field.
F2	Select either “day”, “week” or “month”

Send Time – T1

The send time set enables you to know when to check your email for mails from GetIP. This predictable behavior also allows you to keep track of the running system, i.e. you will always know that the system is continuously running and is not shut down.

When IP Change – I1

By default this check box is checked. This will enable the application to send out email irregardless what value had been set in the email frequency field, email will be send out whenever the scanning duration had lapsed and the system notice the IP had changed from the previous scan. Therefore to avoid receiving email on interval basis but to get them only when the IP have change, set the scanning duration to a non zero value, then set the email frequency to zero and check this field.

ADSL Modem

GetIP get the official IP address assigned to your ADSL router by simulating a telnet logging into your ADSL modem. To see how this work, from Windows open a DOS command prompt window by clicking on Windows START menu, then click on RUN… and type the command “telnet <your adsl LAN IP>, an example is shown below (the ADSL LAN IP is 192.168.1.1 for this example):

When the above command is entered, you’ll be prompted by the ADSL modem to key in the login id and its password. When you have successfully login into the ADSL modem, type the command “ifconfig ppp0”, from the response of the output you can see the IP address assigned to the modem. The DOS window will be as of below:

When you have managed to perform the login sequence described above, you will then know what value to place into the “ADSL Modem” tab page. The various colors of arrows above describe how each of the value that need to be filled at the ADSL tab page correspond to the telnet screen.

Registering GetIP

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Field	Description
R1	When registering, key in the registration code into this text field. If the application have already register, this text box is disable and no input can be place here.
R2	A label that indicate if the application registration status. For unregistered version the text will be “Unregistered version”
R3	The application version
R4	Click OK to register
R5	Link for more information on GetIP and other product

Why Register

GetIP is available freely for use. The unregistered version restricts you to send out the scanning result to only 1 email destination. To send out more then 1 email destination you’ll need to get a registered GetIP. You’ll also entitle to the following benefit when registering:

· Receive email only when dynamic IP have change to avoid cluttering your mailbox with email from GetIP

· Send to more then 1 email address

· Support for GetIP or other technical issues.

· Pre-supply SMTP configuration if you do not have one.

· Upgrade and bug fixes.

· Support for technical queries for other related setup such as “Microsoft Remote Desktop”, “Bypassing proxy” etc.

· Respond to your feedback.

How to Register?

Please email to us at support@rekata.net and we will send you the registration code. You can also send email us for any enquiries and support.