IP Management tool for service providers

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I am looking for an IP management which has flexible management
capabilities. I need it for managing my customers IP assignments, and
keeping stock of my IP pool.
Do you have any suggestions?

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I am looking for an IP management which has flexible management
capabilities. I need it for managing my customers IP assignments, and
keeping stock of my IP pool.
Do you have any suggestions?

Here's one. I haven't used it in production, but the demo that I was given was pretty slick. Works on pretty much any POSIX platform... Alas, it is commercial software.

Voyager IP http://www.vger.com/products.shtml#v_ip

This was referenced on the list back in Jan of 2002:
http://www.freeipdb.org/ http://www.globalcrossing.com

This was referenced on the list in November of 2001:
http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/

You may also try digging through the NANOG archives on this; I seem to recall a similar request within the last year, but a cursory examination of my personal archives don't have notes.

JT

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http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/ looked pretty reasonable last time I
checked.

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I use NorthStar in my network, and actually was a developer on it for a
while. It's fairly stable, but development has somewhat stalled because of
real life issues for the primary developer.

Thanks,

Adam "Tauvix" Debus
Linux Certified Professional, Linux Certified Administrator #447641
Network Administrator, ReachONE Internet
adam@reachone.com

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We have a package that is very flexible based on Python and PostgreSQL. I
will copy sales@CainGang.com so they can send you some information.

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Here's one. I haven't used it in production, but the demo that I was
given was pretty slick. Works on pretty much any POSIX platform...
Alas, it is commercial software.

Voyager IP http://www.vger.com/products.shtml#v_ip

Where did you see a demo? Any idea what it costs? I just sent them an
email. Not much info on their web site, and their contact submission form
is broken.

This was referenced on the list back in Jan of 2002:
http://www.freeipdb.org/ http://www.globalcrossing.com

A coworker took a look at this recently. He had some difficulty getting
it installed properly and it lacks some features we'd require relating to
the tracking of IP allocations in the ways ARIN demands.

This was referenced on the list in November of 2001:
http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/

I just installed this. Installation went easily, but it doesn't seem to
actually work :slight_smile: After adding a big block of space and creating one
allocation in it, the links to create additional subnets bring up the
wrong page. It seems very browser dependent. i.e. with various versions
of Netscape and Mozilla on Linux, some of the pages don't work (but don't
produce any error messages). The same pages did work in IE on Windows, at
least until the whole thing quit working. It also lacks necessary
features and doesn't seem to be flexible enough to incorporate the
features I want without digging into the code.

The basics of what I think an IP allocation tracking system needs (at
least for any ARIN member) are:

1) Ability to track allocations from multiple IP blocks

2) Ability to track type of assignment (i.e. assigned vs reserved)

3) Ability to track service category as required on ARIN additional
request form. i.e. Dial-up|Cable|Web Hosting|Leased Line|
xDSL>Co-location|Wireless|Other-<other subcategory>

4) Storage of customer name and contact info for each allocation

5) Storage of justification info for each assignment

6) Ability to present unallocated space in such a way that allocations can
be done efficiently. i.e. if a /28 needs to be allocated, make it easy to
find unallocated existing /28's, rather than do unnecessary subnetting to
create a new /28.

7) Auditing. When it's additional request time, you need to be able to
audit your assignments and add up how much space is reserved, how
much is assigned, how much is being used for each of the various ARIN
defined categories, look up justifications, etc.

8) Automated swip/unswip or hooks to automate rwhois maintenance would be
nice, but not absolutely required.

The systems I've seen so far lack multiple features from the above list.
Is everyone just using flat files, spreadsheets, or home grown solutions?