[c-nsp] IP Tracking Software

[Ray Burkholder]

http://www.oneunified.net/blog/OpenSource/Debian/AddressManagement/index.blo
g (See the 2007 June 29 entry) (Constructive criticism on the 2007 Sept 14
article are welcome as well).

I've diagrammed a table relationship for something that covers many of the
concepts asked for below.   A few things missing though:  multiple ip
address assignment to one interface needs to be confirmed, a method for
multiple host names needs to be refined (perhaps the requestor could refine
that relationship better).

The concept is to provide live documentation infrastructure and diagrams for
ip addresses, circuits, hosts, interfaces, and patch panels.  With this
basic data infrastructure in place, then additional interactive features can
easily and effectively be integrated:  network inspection for mac/arps,
network weathermaps, host activity/monitoring, (Cricket/Cacti-like
functions), (NetDisco-like functions), netflow ip mapping to hosts, packet
inspection (http header examination) mapping to hosts and circuits, ....

I am in the beginning phases of coding.  I expect to have basic stuff in
place during second, most likely third quarter this year. It won't be
pretty, but will have basic functionality.  It is ultimately meant to be a
multi-user scalable open source solution.

I'm open to suggestions of development support.

Ray.

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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ramcharan, Vijay A
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 14:30
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IP Tracking Software

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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