[c-nsp] IP Tracking Software

[Alex Balashov]

We have repeatedly mulled over writing a truly usable, extensible and 
easy-to-understand IP manager at Evariste.  The problem is there just
wasn't enough concrete demand from our existing clients to warrant
the development investment up-front, or it would have been done a long
time ago, as it's near the top of our operational support product agenda.

In other words, if I had someone willing to pay for it in a sufficiently
concrete way, it'd get done.  And quickly.  We have much of what you
suggest below specced out already.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Ramcharan, Vijay A wrote:

> Just last week, I put together this wish list of an IP management tool
> that we'd like to have. I'm probably reaching a bit with some of the
> features but it is still a wish list after all.
> We manage quite a few clients and we do builds frequently for new
> clients so any tool which can replace Excel spreadsheets is going to be
> of great interest. Have already looked at IPPlan, IPAM and a couple
> others.
>
> 1.	Manage IP schemes for all clients, regardless of how convoluted
> said scheme may be.
> 2.	Be able to handle IP collisions between clients for those
> clients that have overlapping private IP space
> 3.	Flexible reporting based upon criteria such as client, host,
> subnet, ip address, switch
> 4.	Flexible/extensible/customizable object definitions (different
> types of IPs such as host, vip, alias etc, different host types)
> 5.	Able to accomodate server NIC, cabling and switch port
> information
> 6.	Able to link/correlate host/server/device information with IP
> and cabling information
> 7.	Multiple hostname definitions assignable to a single host
> 8.	Multiple IP assignments to same host
> 9.	Sanity checks such as alerts when assigning the same IP to
> different hosts, same switch port to different hosts
> 10.	Able to handle tab separated imports and exports to accommodate
> offsite, static information during a cage build or similar effort.
>
> Cost would be a secondary factor if such a tool existed.
>
> Vijay Ramcharan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jon Lewis
> Sent: January 29, 2008 13:15
> To: Paul Stewart
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IP Tracking Software
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Paul Stewart wrote:
>
>> Hi folks...
>>
>> I'm looking for a good IP Subnet tracking system - open source would
> be
>> wonderful but commercial is fine too...
>>
>> Requirements:
>>
>> IPV4 and IPV6 Address Tracking
>> ARIN SWIP Updates Automatically
>> Multiple User Access (Read Only, Read/Write)
>>
>> Other than that, not much else.  Using NorthStar today, looked at
> IpPlan -
>
> Same here (not using NorthStar, but looked at them both), but this
> probably isn't the right list for it.
>
> I haven't seen a CIDR management tool yet that I've liked.
>
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