Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

[Josh Galvez <josh () zevlag com>]

This tool handle most of what you are asking for:

http://www.nocproject.org/

-Josh

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Thilo Bangert <thilo.bangert () gmail com>wrote:

> On Thursday 20 December 2012 09:11:43 Saku Ytti wrote:
> > On (2012-12-20 03:24 +0000), Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> > > I actually was doing research on this today as well.  Anyone have any
> > > experience with the solutions that implement VLAN management as well
> like
> > > Gestioip?
> > I'm not remotely interested in externally developed software for this
> > problem.
>
> what do you mean. i'd be fine with an opensource project providing this.
>
> > But it's fair question. Generally this tool should not be IP or
> > VLAN based but generic resource reservation tool, IP, VLAN, RD, RT,
> > VPLS-ID, site-id, pseudowireID what have you.
> >
> > For me, humans would not do much directly with the tool. They'd give it
> > large chunk of resource. Then maybe mine it to pools like 'coreLink',
> > 'coreLoop', 'custLink', 'custLAN' etc.
> > Then in your provisioning tools, you'd request resource from specific
> pool
> > via restful API. Humand would never manually write RD/RT/IP/VLAN in the
> > tool or in the configs. And this type of system is vastly simpler than
> the
> > IPAMs I see listed, once you get rid of all the UI candy, it gets rather
> > easy problem to solve.
>
> this is a pretty accurate description of our requirements, as well. off the
> top of my head we'd also manage phone numbers, key ids, and key box ids,
> with
> it, but that would almost be a minor detail. ;-)