Address Management in IPv6
Graham Beneke
graham at neology.co.za
Thu Jan 6 16:21:46 CET 2011
On 04/01/2011 23:55, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> On 1/4/2011 12:38 PM, Andy Davidson wrote:
>>
>> On 4 Jan 2011, at 13:39, Graham Beneke wrote:
>>
>>> We currently store our subnet assignments in a wiki and don't record
>>> host assignments.
>>> What tools are available for tracking and recording IPv6 assignments
>>> within an organisation? Does anyone have good or bad experiences with
>>> particular apps?
>>
>> Last time I had to answer this question, I reached for Haci (coming from
>> ipplan too). Haci's interface is a lot cleaner than ipplan. I understand
>> that since I had to make that decision, the ipplan developer has added
>> v6 support.
>>
>> However, next time I need to select an IPAM tools, I will definitely
>> look again at 6connect IPAM - http://www.6connect.net/platform/ipam/. I
>> had a demo of it recently, and it included out of the box a bunch of the
>> automation scripts that one needs to bolt onto the FOSS tools to make
>> them useful. I certainly recommend you look at this software.
>>
>
> With ARIN going to the REST interface late last year I would
> strongly recommend before laying your cash down that you get an
> ironclad guarantee from this company that IPAM will interface
> to ARIN through the REST interface and NOT through the older
> e-mail interface (that ARIN is phasing out) for SWIP filing,
> before you buy it, or that any needed upgrades to doing this
> will be free.
Since I am in the AfriNIC region, I would be more interested in
integration with AfriNIC's systems ;-)
Thank you all for you input - I now have a number of options to try out.
--
Graham Beneke
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