[c-nsp] IP Address Management Software

[Michael Smith]

Hello:


> From: Progressus <progressus at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:10:59 +0100
> To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Subject: [c-nsp] IP Address Management Software
> 
>  Hi all,
> 
>  I am currently running a project at Internet Solutions, to develop  our own
> IP Database and Management system. This is designed  around many of
> our  existing client databases and systems that we have.
>  We are still in the beginning phase of implementation, but  hope to have
> the system  up and running with all our addresses in place by the end
> of  this year.
> 
> I had looked around, but I was not able to find anything that suited our
> needs.
> 
> * Tracks/assigns all WAN IPs for customers routers
> 
> * Tracks/assigns all subnets assigned to customers
> 
> * Monitors customer database for cancellations to automatically reclaim IP
> space from customers that have moved on
> 
> * Manage all netblocks assigned from RIPE
> 
> * Provides utilization reports specifically in reference to how close am I
> to the magical 80% to request more IPs.
> 
> * Provides utilization information for each of our 12 markets around the
> country so that I know when we are running low on IPs for a region.  If we
> are low, a couple of clicks and the IP pools are automatically refreshed.
> 
> * Daily scrubs of all /24's to be used for customer subnet assignments (not
> WAN IPs) to look for /24's that are completely used and then take them out
> of the search path when assigning IPs for customers (this is to speed up the
> assignments... no need to look for holes in blocks that you know are full).
> * Tracks ASN's of our customers
> 
> * Automatic report to request more IPs from RIPE.
> 
> My question:
> 
> What are your opinion about best solution to do this needs?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Best Regards

We use IPPlan - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=32122
and have customized some interactive scripts to do some of the things above,
particularly related to auto-SWIP and reclamation.

It's very extensible and also very stable.  However, it has no support for
IPv6 and the author is not inclined to write in the support (apparently
those requesting it haven't ponied up any cash to help with the project and
it would be a fairly massive rewrite).

With that said, if you are growing your own you should seriously consider
writing in IPv6 support now.

Regards,

Mike