Re: There's More Than One Way To Use IPAM (TMTOWTUI)
Michal, I agree with you, at the end of the day, it comes down to trust. Do you trust your personnel?Do you trust the vendor has built a stable, reliable, "bug-free" solution?Do you trust your change...
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I can't speak to the reason InfoBlox was put in this environment, nor can I speak to the management of DHCP and DNS on current versions of Windows as I stopped doing Windows admin years ago.We use...
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Couldn't agree more. People confuse tools with solutions all the time. IPAM is a necessity for network management, but it's just a tool that facilitates network management. The process and procedures...
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I have ideas on this and will create them in the ideation area. IPAM should pull the data using AXFR and use that to populate the database; trying to parse configuration files is a vendor-specific...
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Very well put, byrona, thank you! As I sad, whether you use IPAM or any other tool, anybody who bypasses the centralized process can cause problems for others.
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Re: IPAM is Worthless Without Process
an organization that has trouble managing IP allocation usually has difficulty managing other parts of their IT operationsThere's probably a lot of truth to that, michael stump! If the processes are...
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Using spreadsheets can work, but you have to be very careful about ensuring only one person can update at a time, and that you have some kind of version control in place because inevitably, at some...
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What kind of templates are you creating, mraky? When you say you work with many vendors, are you talking about having multiple vendors' products in use, or working with vendors as partners in some way?...
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Re: I Don't See the Point of IPAM
Hi, when i say vendors, i am talking about systems, using network. but yes, i think, i need to study IPAM more. thank you Hynek Los
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We have our techs contact us to ask for available IP addresses and it helps to be able to reference IPAM to answer them. As a growing organization, we have run out of IP addresses before on subnets,...
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Hi fcpsolaradmin. Is your speed concern with SolarWinds IPAM or another product? If SW, that may be useful feedback for them to hear, especially if others have a similar concern. I've only run SW IPAM...
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Re: IPAM is Worthless Without Process
thanks for responce jgherbert but the servers I have my SW stuff on are pretty nice SQL Server specs:
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IF you are using IPAM as a high lvl tool for subnets, it's great. But should you ever need to run a report for management or someone just wanting to know which IP's are being used, well then IPAM just...
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding you … I just ran a ‘canned’, out-of-the-box report for IPAM called “IPAM - All used IP Addresses” and it gave me a report that shows all in-use IP addresses. One report, all...
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You are correct, I should have specified, from within IPAM and not Solarwinds reporting, an option to export an entire folder worth of subnets to one spreadsheet. I have subnets broken down by...
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Our network engineers resisted IPAM, and were decided to stick to their spreadsheets...but now use IPAM a lot. I think the reason for their reluctance had a lot to do with the way the IPAM tree was...
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thanks newkidd2, funny i have my tree almost identical to the Demo. thanksfor the info On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:22 PM, newkidd2 <
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We used spreadsheets in the past and they were problematic. Lot's of errors, poor clean up of retired addresses, etc. We don't use solarwinds IPAM but we do use Infoblox Trinzic appliances. We just...
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Re: IPAM is Worthless Without Process
Our organization actually does really well with IPAM as a whole for the internal private IP side of things. I cannot speak to the public IP space, but have yet to see an issue with it. While we have a...
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