NetBox is a free and open source tool (Apache 2.0 license) used to model a network's entire presence through the use of purpose-built models, built to serve the needs of network engineers and operators.
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Nokia VitalQIP
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Nokia VitalQIP is a DDI solution (domain name system (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and IP address management (IPAM)). Nokia VitalQIP aims to remove the complexity associated with IPAM while reducing the costs of managing IP addresses within the enterprise. VitalQIP allows the enterprise to manage hundreds of DNS and DHCP servers supporting millions of IP addresses. VitalQIP also provides IPv6 support and makes use of automation for mission critical DNS and DHCP services.
The API is just very well designed. All tools say that what you can do with webUI, you can also do it via the REST API. That is usually not the case except for Netbox, where you can really do everything with the API. For instance with GLPI, you cannot get rack and rack units …
Netbox is very well suited when you want to consolidate your inventory in one place. Netbox is also very well suited when you want to generate network configurations. You can request the REST API to get the date of a device and generate network configurations with a templating tool, and that is very easy.
The API is just very well designed. All tools say that what you can do with webUI, you can also do it via the REST API. That is usually not the case except for Netbox, where you can really do everything with the API. For instance with GLPI, you cannot get rack and rack units data with the API, while you can do it via the webUI