Re: I Don't See the Point of IPAM
I'm interested in how to design a tree that works at our scale (14,000 subnets): How many IP addresses/subnets do you have in your tree?
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We manage close on half a million IP addresses using text files and some spreadsheets; We're migrating slowly to a database, and SWO IPAM. We have over fourteen thousand subnets, and thousands of...
View ArticleRe: Advice for Host monitoring
I agree with IPSLA and VNQM being good choices for measuring network performance quality, but only if you have Cisco devices. With IPSLA, you can measure the performance between your edge Cisco device...
View ArticleRe: IPAM is Worthless Without Process
Of course process is important. Getting buy in from the entire IT staff is the only way to succeed in an IPAM implementation. My current shop has used IPAM since before I started but my previous job...
View ArticleRe: Exploring a new network from scratch
Awesome post, I have occasionally been to your Packet Life Blog since 2010. It is cool that I also found you here on SolarWinds.
View ArticleRe: Scaling IPAM
Hi 802jr! As I said to Michael above, scanning can help detect where process is breaking down! There should (in my ideal world) be no surprises where the network shows an IP or subnet in use that isn't...
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Of the five you listed, I'd say that Process and IP Scanning and Discovery are the most important planning aspects for scaling IPAM. IPAM has to be baked into your server deployment and change...
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I agree on all points- however as we have been migrating networks from IP spreadsheet to IPAM we have found that after the initial import and subsequent scans, that reports on any subnets or ip...
View ArticleRe: I Don't See the Point of IPAM
We currently use spreadsheets and like everyone else they are an issue because not everyone works on keeping them up to date and current. We have begun trying to clean this up but it's a time consuming...
View ArticleRe: IPAM is Worthless Without Process
We are still trying to get IPAM off the ground but like you said the biggest problem has been simply getting everyone to work on keeping it up to date and making sure it does get used.
View ArticleRe: Scaling IPAM
Of your post probably the biggest thing we have issues with is consistency. When everyone has been trained or has adopted different ways of naming or allocating it can be a major headache especially...
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In addition to all of the things that have been mentioned (which I completely agree with) I also think that extensibility is important if you plan to scale it out. Having an API or some other way to...
View ArticleEnvironmental Data Center monitor suggestions
Hi Guys Can anyone recommend any that we could install in our datacentre that will be compatible with orion? preferably ones you are using yourselves regards Matt
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Great point, byrona. In fact, with the automation that many data centers are now deploying (especially with virtualization), it can be increasingly important to have an API available for some form of...
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Agree entirely, jreagan; going back and "fixing" old problems can be a real pain, whether through old or inconsistent standards, or through a merger/acquisition. I wish there were a silver bullet on...
View ArticleRe: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
we monitor everything... as in, we monitor the monitor that monitors the monitor that is monitoring those monitors... but we do not alert on everything... we are just now getting around to cleaning...
View ArticleRe: Too good for QoS
You would have to be a Saudi Price to afford the bandwidth needed for enough overhead not to run QoS...seems essential to me since i don't work for the king.
View ArticleRe: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
We do not monitor Access Switch Interfaces; other than uplinks to our distribution boxes. Any new alert gets just me in the email line until the alert is fine tuned. Some alerts are for devices that...
View ArticleRe: Too good for QoS
Not at all. There are plenty of big networks out there with 10G interconnect with a fair amount of overhead. Adding QoS in for future protection may be a good idea, but there are a lot of networks...
View ArticleRe: Too good for QoS
When we sat down to decide whether or not to implement QoS, we determined that our voice traffic was important, but not any more important than our data traffic. To my point, we just expanded our pipe...
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