You can query VPN Connection Settings through scutil, and collect it through an extended attribute

scutil --nc show "VPN (PPTP)" | grep CommRemoteAddress

Thanks, I'll take a look at this

This will rely on you knowing the name of the VPN setup in advance, which you may, but perhaps, like us, you have more than one possible named VPN depending on end users.

If you only have one per VPN setup per machine, then you could alternatively run:

#!/bin/bash



vpn_id=`scutil --nc list | awk '/IPSec/ {print $3}'`

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :NetworkServices:${vpn_id}:IPSec:RemoteAddress" /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist



exit 0

If you have more than one, you could run scutil command to get each name as well and then work through each to report name and remote address together.

As a side note, we have no CommRemoteAddress, so the above post would return nothing on our systems.