George,
I feel err bodies pain when it comes to ip plan records and what helps
me is having radius provision our networks for us. Built into freeside
it keeps up with
ip inventory and what blocks or subnets go where. We get a new block and
add it to inventory and when it gets broken down into smaller subnets to
distribute to
different sites we just add what we need to those sites in freeside and
radius takes care of the rest. The other really cool thing is our up
front folks enter the customers
info and ip. If the ip is a duplicate or has not been decommissioned
from an older account then it will not let it add that ip in the system
and I get a call about it.
They have done it long enough now that I rarely get called. I also get
weekly reports on ip inventory.
I use the reports to export to csv(spread sheet) which updates my
racktables.
I started with ipplan when I only had a /22
IPv6 is not kind :)
On 11/30/2014 12:18 AM, George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af wrote:
Simple hierarchical IP management is what IPPlan does. It might be old
and ugly, but it's better than a spreadsheet. And it also has an audit
log so I can see who changed/added/deleted what. I have no reason to
move away from it, at least right now. If I'm going to do something
different, it will be custom integrated with RADIUS to act as
provisioning and DHCP backend. Too much shit to do right now to tackle
that.
On 11/29/2014 11:04 PM, That One Guy via Af wrote:
racktables is relaly cool, though i question long term support.
We have one of our contract customers that hired a full time IT guy,
we sent him a racktables VM, this is a multis site customer, with
multiple racks mixing POE VLAN multiple providers. One huge problem
was we never go to the out of state sites, documentation on ports was
always lacking and site disasters always ended up with stuff where it
belonged, this should help to resolve that
But for simple subnet management and documentation there is zero easy
product out there, everything is full IPAM or Excel.
Ive been looking for something other than a spreadsheet to keep tract
of the subnets, and where I put them, whats available next. PITA to
say the least. Other than a spreadsheed, theres not much that scales
down to just the subnets divisions, if you dont care about the hosts.
and every one of them results an a sales call within 5 minites of
submission if you put your real info. Its like, seriously
motherfu%%er, I just downloaded it, do you think I have it installed
and tested yet enough to tell the boss to cut you a 10k check?
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:44 PM, David Milholen via Af <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Ken,
We used to do that up until a few years ago and we have moved
on.... LOL
I have had so many spread sheets that have since moved into
automation of today and now the cloud(still a mystery) LOL
Easy to do get a "LAMP" stack server and roll with it.
On 11/29/2014 9:26 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
I use IP management software called “Excel”. It is not free,
but I hear of alternatives called “Open Office” and “Google Docs”.
*From:* Mike Hammett via Af <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:02 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] IP Management
All of the above.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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*From: *"Ken Hohhof via Af" <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent: *Saturday, November 29, 2014 8:59:15 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] IP Management
How much public IP space do you guys have? Seems kind of like a
first world
problem, if you know what I mean.
Or are you talking about managing private IP space in a large
enterprise
network? That can be a mess, but you mentioned ARIN, so I
assumed you meant
public addresses. Or maybe you are worried about IPv6 space where
lightbulbs get their own addresses? Oh crap, do we have to SWIP
all the
addresses we assign to the Internet of Things?
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From: Butch Evans via Af
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 8:44 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IP Management
On 11/29/2014 07:06 PM, Josh Baird via Af wrote:
> 6Connect is good. Men & Mice is also good (but doesn't SWIP or do
> ARIN). Solarwinds also has an IPAM offering.
>
> There really isn't a good -free- solution that I know of
(especially one
> that hasn't turned to vaporware). Many people will suggest
IPPlan, but
> I hated it (although it can be easily customized and/or
modified if you
> have any PHP clue).
I wasn't impressed with IPPlan, either. HaCi is another free option
that may do what you want. I haven't looked at it recently, so
I can't
even recall all the features of it at the moment.
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