IP Planning Software
Successfully plan your IP address space
Monitor IP capacity and receive alerts on IP depletion
SolarWinds® IP Address Manager (IPAM) offers a customizable dashboard with resources to track IP addresses according to utilization. You can easily identify your Top 10 DHCP Subnets and Scopes and receive automated alerts if subnet/scope utilization reaches a customizable threshold.
Both at-a-glance and drill-down dashboard analytics can help you minimize bandwidth load and reduce routing traffic inefficiencies. SolarWinds IP address planning tool also monitors and alerts for IP address conflicts, so you can quickly limit network disruptions.
Customize and streamline your IP capacity reporting
Deploy IPAM’s customizable subnet IP capacity template for fast, flexible, and centralized reporting. These IP capacity reports can be scheduled to run on regular intervals, so you can automatically track subnet use.
With accurate IP plan software, you can more easily identify your limited subnets and design larger subnets before capacity issues get worse. These customizable reports can also help you project when a subnet or scope might become depleted, so you can improve IP capacity planning across your network.
Find available DHCP scopes with an IP address planning tool
DHCP server integration in SolarWinds IPAM lets you add Microsoft DHCP, Cisco, and ISC DHCP servers. Enjoy a customizable DHCP setup—for instance, you can define a scanning frequency to automatically add new scopes and subnets to your SolarWinds IPAM database. IPAM also allows you to split scopes to help optimize load balancing. This tool makes it possible to easily create, edit, and remove DHCP scopes and modify DNS zones and records.
Transition seamlessly to IPv6 IP planning while keeping up with IPv4
Making the move from IPv4 to IPv6? SolarWinds IP address planning tool allows you to easily add IPv6 sites and subnets. With standard Network Discovery Protocol, IPAM uses your SNMP credentials to access routers that contain IPv6 configuration information. IPv6 addresses can then be organized into groups for efficient network organization.
Once the IPv6 address space becomes active, you can set up scheduled, automatic scanning. IPAM is designed to allow you to be able to manage your IPv6 address space as easily as IPv4.
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Do you find yourself asking…
Managing your IP addresses isn’t always an easy task. For large networks with a long list of operating addresses, keeping a manual spreadsheet of addresses can be time-consuming—especially when your network is constantly expanding to accommodate new users and devices.
The main goal of IP planning is to help make your IP configurations as efficient as possible, all from a centralized control center. IP management involves assigning new units to empty addresses, ensuring your assignments stay under your IP capacity, and solving any inefficiencies with your address configuration.
In addition to IP address assignment, IP planning involves subnet creation and management to help maximize the efficiency of your network operations. IP addresses with the same IP address routing prefix can take less time and distance to communicate with each other. A collection of IP addresses beginning with the same prefix is called a subnet, and this is something any IP planning should take into consideration if you’re aiming to optimize traffic flow efficiency.
Successful IP planning should also establish a strategy to monitor your DHCP servers, your DNS servers, and dynamic IP addresses that change based on capacity.
Managing your IP addresses isn’t always an easy task. For large networks with a long list of operating addresses, keeping a manual spreadsheet of addresses can be time-consuming—especially when your network is constantly expanding to accommodate new users and devices.
The main goal of IP planning is to help make your IP configurations as efficient as possible, all from a centralized control center. IP management involves assigning new units to empty addresses, ensuring your assignments stay under your IP capacity, and solving any inefficiencies with your address configuration.
In addition to IP address assignment, IP planning involves subnet creation and management to help maximize the efficiency of your network operations. IP addresses with the same IP address routing prefix can take less time and distance to communicate with each other. A collection of IP addresses beginning with the same prefix is called a subnet, and this is something any IP planning should take into consideration if you’re aiming to optimize traffic flow efficiency.
Successful IP planning should also establish a strategy to monitor your DHCP servers, your DNS servers, and dynamic IP addresses that change based on capacity.
Streamline IP planning by automating the IP configuration process
IP Address Manager
Do away with IP tracking spreadsheets and actively identify and manage IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Use an affordable and fully integrated DHCP, DNS, and IP address management software to administer your environment.
Stay on top of IP address conflicts, subnets/scope depletion, or mismatched DNS entries.