I'm looking for IPAM solutions for a small regional wireless ISP. There are 4
Tier 2 personnel and 2 NOC technicians who would be using the tool, and a small
staff of engineers.
They have regionalized IP addresses so blocks are local, but there are subnets
that are global.
don't care if it's a linux or windows solution.
Need to be able to migrate from FreeIPdb (yes, I know, it's a dinosaur)
We're not dealing with a lot now, but the potential for growth is pretty high.
Features
Manage subnets and hosts
IPv4 and IPv6 support
All subnetting math done for you. Auto-allocates and collapses subnets
Subnet groups
Assign customers to subnets and send SWIPs to ARIN
PowerDNS integration to update reverse and A records for hosts
That is a superb suggestion, Aftab. I actually did a search through the
archives for "IPAM" and "IP address management" and the results were ...
unsatisfactory. Perhaps I used the wrong archive, and you direct me to an
alternate:
Racktables = no IPv6. Bummer, and it does more than what I need.
Netdot looks very interesting. It didn't show up when I searched for "IPAM".
I'll have to evaluate it, to see if it does any kind of wireless documentation
(frequency, modulation, etc)
We're running postgres on the backend due to a limitation we ran into when implementing v6 support in mysql. So standard postgres backup practices would apply.
We also run a 24x7 NOC though only 4 support people. It's light on database access so I can't imagine you would have a problem with robustness (it's just PHP/Postgres). We have 8 /19's, a /32 v6 block and a smattering of other blocks that are managed using it.
We've been using ipplan, although it seems the racktables demo site does support ipv6. It looks interesting because it could help us in other ways.
Still kind of stuck on ipplan until I find a better solution that understands multiple routing tables since I have many mpls vpn's with overlapping address space.
I think 6connect is well worth an eval as well. We've been using it for the InteropNet for a couple of years now and it nicely meets our needs in both v4 and v6, and since you can get it as a hosted application, for a small shop there's zero maintenance.
Racktables = no IPv6. Bummer, and it does more than what I need.
Really? I could have sworn I was entering ipv6 data into the ipv6 section in racktables yesterday.
Netdot looks very interesting. It didn't show up when I searched for "IPAM". I'll have to evaluate it, to see if it does any kind of wireless documentation (frequency, modulation, etc)
We're also evaluating Solarwinds' IPAM, but that's way too
expensive for the features.
We've got their netflow software and were considering their IPAM
for the seamless integration but you're definitely right on the
price; it would have been cost nearly the same as adding an
annual full time employee just to manage a few /21's and an
/18.... insane.
We migrated from excel to IPPLAN (fairly large corp. network, with 150+ global locations),very easy to setup and import data (CSV).
Your cost to try it out is near $0 (only money spent is your own $hour).
So far the only issue that we encounter now and then is with the search function, though we haven't had time to tshoot.
Other than that I think it's a solid solution, and you can't beat the price
