[c-nsp] Best Ipam software?

[Tim Huffman]

We used to use Northstar, but it wasn't being maintained, and had no IPv6 features. We now use HaCi, which seems to work pretty well. Documentation is sparse, but there's a wiki with the basics of how to install and use it. It has a nice clean interface, and supports IPv6, which of course is going to be important soon. Other than that, it's not very feature-heavy, but uses MySQL as a back end, so if you can work with that, it can be very powerful. I managed to bolt-on export to our RWHOIS server.

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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Matthieu MICHAUD
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:08 AM
To: Gustav.Ulander at steria.se
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Best Ipam software?

Hi,

I recently had to deal with IPAM software vendors. Here is a quick feedback.

It just my 2 cts in the context a mid-sized enterprise network with frequent merger (then overlapping subnets carried over a VPN/MPLS).

All of the following piece of software support overlapping subnets through containers/views.

- Infoblox
Nice interface and well finished product. If your primary goal is to integrate IPAM/DNS/DHCP I think it is a good choice. But I was a bit disappointed with the IPAM features compared to the competition. Excellent documentation.

- Efficient IP
Best IPAM I have seen, a real challenger of Infoblox to me: cheaper, fully featured but harder to use and GUI no as beautiful as Infoblox. Integration with third party component seems thoroughly thought out.
There is a business case with OBS
http://www.efficientip.com/case-study-orange-business-services.

- BT diamond IP
Felt sick with the quote too, their pricing model is based on the number of so called active IP addresses.
However if you need to deploy managed MPLS as much as an ISP does, I think it is a very good option.

- BlueCat Networks
Worth a try. I planned to evaluate it I ran out of time.
If you contact your local reseller you could manager to get a fully functional but time limited virtual appliance.
So it is with other vendors.

Bästa hälsningar,

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Matthieu MICHAUD
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