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SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)

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What is SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)?

Austin-based SolarWinds offers Internet Protocal address management (IPAM) networking service.

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Customize your IP address management dashboard to quickly focus on your top priorities.
Manage your DHCP and DNS services in one place.
Streamline IP requests with a simple intake and approval wizard.
Automatically scan for subnets or manually add.

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What users are saying about SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM).
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SolarWinds IPAM is the Easiest Way to Manage Multiple Subnets and Office Location IP Addresses

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Jacob Bradley
UC Manager in Information Technology at T. D. Williamson (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SolarWinds IPAM to manage the subnets at our many office locations across the world. It allows us to quickly see subnet status, IP availability, and update our DNS quickly. This prevents us from duplicating IP addresses and causing communication errors.

Pros

  • IP address availability
  • DNS updates
  • Capacity planning

Cons

  • Customizable dashboards
  • Resolution automation
  • Better scripting base

Return on Investment

  • Simple IP address assigning
  • Easily avoids IP address conflicts
  • Capacity planning for subnets simplified

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Time saver

Incentivized
Jeeva KumarView profile
Information System Manager in Information Technology at ZeOmega (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using this tool for the last 5 years and this is a pretty decent tool to track the IPs that are reserved, assigned, and available. Easy to create the group and manage each IP subnets independently.

Pros

  • Can track all the IP address ( provisioned and available) automatically
  • Centralized managed solution
  • Can integrate with the DNS

Cons

  • Sometimes I have noticed the IP pool doesn't get refreshed and am not sure where the issue is. I had to cross verify the IP address before assigning it to male sure it doesn't conflict with already provisioned Servers

Return on Investment

  • can free up my time in spending hours to identify the available IP's
  • Helps in avoiding human error and thus reduce the downtime

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), Orion

Great tool for keeping track of IP addresses

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Dipak Patel
Sr DBA in Information Technology at evicore (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds IP Address Manager Eliminates IP conflicts and saves time managing DHCP, DNS, and IP Addresses. It also scans subnets to show the open IP address, and adds and removes subnets. The disadvantage is the ability to select multiple IP addresses at one time and it some it overkills for smaller network and little high price.

Pros

  • Great tool for keeping track of IP addresses.
  • Dynamic IP lists and documentation.
  • Nice integration with other SolarWinds suite tool.

Cons

  • Try to integrate with service now
  • It showed the MAC addresses of the devices it finds on the scans.
  • Specific IP can be complicated

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use GUI for network IP management, along with its monitoring capabilities with Orion tool.
  • backup feature pretty confusing.
  • The breaches of their platforms due to inadequate security forced us to switch vendor.

Alternatives Considered

BlueCat Integrity (Address Manager + DNS/DHCP Server)

Other Software Used

BlueCat Integrity (Address Manager + DNS/DHCP Server), Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)

No more spreadsheets

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Ethan BeachView profile
Manager, Security and Operations in Information Technology at Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • See the devices on DHCP you didn't know about
  • Monitor your DHCP scopes, available IPs
  • Monitor your subnets and available IPs
  • Remove the need for spreadsheets

Cons

  • The layout of information, DHCP, DNS, and IP are all separated

Return on Investment

  • Monitor IP usage of scopes before DHCP has no IPs to hand out
  • No more spreadsheets so time saved finding an IP
  • Searchable IP addresses

Other Software Used

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

IPAM: Total Awareness in IP Management

Incentivized
Michael GombosiView profile
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Hub Group (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Organization: Great seeing site IP utilization at a glance.
  • DHCP Management: If you pair this with the right alerting you will never run out of IPs at a site.
  • Subnet Management: Similar to DHCP, you can tell when you are going to need to expand your subnets.

Cons

  • Built in alerting would take a lot of the guess work out.
  • Sometimes the DHCP utilization doesn't appear to be 100% in sync.
  • As with all modules, theres a cost to use additional features.

Return on Investment

  • Positive: Its saved us from headaches when dealing with scaling issues.
  • Positive: It has cut down on sites running out of IPs.
  • Positive: It generally makes the life of a network engineer easier.

Alternatives Considered

Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)

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