Address Management in IPv6

[Hannigan, Martin]

On 1/6/11 10:21 AM, "Graham Beneke" <graham at neology.co.za> wrote:

> 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.


This is not an endorsement, but based on the content of this thread it seems
appropriate to comment. I have reviewed most of the IPAM's out there and I
found that they are typically geared towards the enterprise. For example,
most were stunned that I might want to actually have a database containing
~65k /48's out of a /32 or even multiple /32's. For what it's worth, none
that I reviewed had REST in any context aside from 6Connect. Clue indicator
at a minimum.


Best,

-M<