[c-nsp] IP Tracking Software

[Christian Koch]

BT Diamond IP

http://btdiamondip.com/

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On Jan 29, 2008 2:05 PM, Ray Burkholder <ray at oneunified.net> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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