Saku Good points. An API or tooling always important. I have experienced that for support and operational groups on-boarding to a Web User Interface is just easier. We are rarely the only users of an IPAM or DCIM.
All I added all the other suggestions to my list and think that I might make a table showing some features. On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM Saku Ytti <[email protected]> wrote: > > I feel like most/all of these make a huge mistake starting as 'i am > going to make an IPAM'. > > Instead of 'I'm going to make a number allocation system' > > IPv4, IPv6, port, vlan, RT, RD, PWID, customer#, endless list of > numbers you want to allocate and 90% of the logic is agnostic to the > ultimate rendering of the number. > > I feel like the right solution would be to start with a general > purpose number manager and make all specific numbers plugins, > including allowing users to trivially create local plugins for purely > local numbers they need to allocate. With a good design plugin to > introduce a new number could potentially be just tens of lines of code > in the plugin. > > Now you could with one call return all numbers that were allocated to > support This Subscription. > > The 2nd problem is that many of these go with WEBUX first, while I > think something like gRPC should be the first class citizen, as you > mostly should be using the number manager from other software. Of > course webUX or many webUX should exist, but it wouldn't have to be > 1st class. Many of us would be happy to use CLI UX to add pools rarely > when needed and handle allocation/deallocation through existing > provisioning systems. > > > On Tue, 16 Sept 2025 at 03:03, Andrew Latham via NANOG > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Regarding the `IP Address support in spreadsheets?` thread I wanted to > > check to see what is out there and maybe update my list. I have not > > used all of these, just maintaining a list. > > > > Netbox > > github.com/netbox-community/netbox > > > > Ralph > > bad url is ralph.allegro.tech/ > > > > IPplan > > sourceforge.net/projects/iptrack/ > > > > Infoblox > > www.infoblox.com/ > > > > GestióIP > > www.gestioip.net/ > > > > PHPIPAM > > phpipam.net/ > > > > 6connect > > www.6connect.com/ipam/ > > > > Subnetsmngr > > Source link missing > > > > Device 42 > > www.device42.com/ > > > > NIPAP > > spritelink.github.io/NIPAP/ > > > > OpenNetAdmin > > github.com/opennetadmin/ona > > > > > > > > This is from: > > https://lathama.net/Tech/Basics/DCIM#Software_Solutions_for_DCIM_or_IPAM > > > > -- > > - Andrew "lathama" Latham - > > _______________________________________________ > > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ICQDYZVMMXQFOXV5FVSJPG5D3H7HAWB5/ > > > > -- > ++ytti -- - Andrew "lathama" Latham - _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PCWBTGIS7IY5LHC4AYLI6QQBG7L42IFZ/
