IP address management

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Internet Protocol address management (IPAM) is a means of planning, tracking, and managing the Internet Protocol address space used in a network. Most commonly, tools such as DNS and DHCP are used in tandem to perform this task, though true IPAM will glue these services together so that each is aware of changes in the other (for instance DNS knowing of the IP address taken by a client via DHCP, and updating itself accordingly).[1][2][3] Additional functionality, such as controlling reservations in DHCP as well as other data aggregation and reporting capability, is also common. IPAM tools are increasingly important as new IPv6 networks are deployed with larger address pools, different subnetting techniques, and more complex 128-bit hexadecimal numbers which are not as easily human-readable as IPv4 addresses.[4] IPv6 networking, mobile computing, and multihoming require more dynamic address management and are causing technical obsolescence[citation needed] of the early generations of IP address management (IPAM) software and spreadsheets used for address management.

[edit] List of products

Solution License Current release Release date IPv6 support Database support
6connect Commercial 3.0 2011-11-15 Yes MySQL
Address Commander Commercial 4.2 2010-12-13 Yes PostgreSQL, Oracle
BlueCat Networks Commercial 3.5 2011-01-03 Yes Included SQL Database with "Push" to flat files.
Cisco Network Registrar Commercial 7.2 2011-04-27 Yes Yes SQL
Device42 Commercial 2.1.1 2012-02-06 Yes Embedded Database
EfficientIP Commercial 4.0.2 2011-09-30 Yes Embedded DDBMS
GestióIP GPLv3 3.0 2011-11-30 Yes MySQL
InfoBlox Commercial 6.3 2011-12-22 Yes Embedded real-time distributed database
IPplan GPLv3 4.92 2009-08-18 No PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
IPplan GPLv3 6.00Beta 2010-04-29 Yes PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
MyIP GPLv3 1.0 2011-05-18 Yes MySQL
NetDB GPLv2 4.6.0-R1 2010-08-24 Yes Oracle
NETDOT GPL 0.9.9 2011-02-07 Yes MySQL, PostgreSQL
NOC BSD 0.6.4 2011-05-03 Yes PostgreSQL
OpenIPAM GPL v0.1-alpha No PostgreSQL
OpenNetAdmin GPLv2 11.02.10 2007 In Progress MySQL (via adodb)
phpIP GPL 4.3.2 2006-11-06 No MySQL
Sauron GPL 0.7.3 2010-02-19 No PostgreSQL
VitalQIP Commercial 7.3 Yes Sybase, Oracle, with Push to DNS and DHCP]
Men & Mice Suite Commercial 6.3 2011-09-13 Yes internal (SQLite), Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Welcome to IPAM Worldwide". http://ipamworldwide.com/. Retrieved March 17, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Campus DHCP/DNS and IPAM Services". Ann Arbor, MI: The Regents of the University of Michigan. http://www.itcom.itd.umich.edu/DHCP/. Retrieved March 17, 2011. "Internet Protocol Address Management is a database system for planning, tracking, and managing IP address space." 
  3. ^ Rooney, Tim (2010). IP Address Management Principles and Practice. IEEE Press series on network management. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-IEEE Press. ISBN 9780470880654. OCLC 701468014. 
  4. ^ Doyle, Jeff (January 28, 2011). "Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: IPv6 Address Design". Framingham, MA: Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ipv6-address-design. Retrieved March 17, 2011. 
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