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    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AAustin-based SolarWinds offers Internet Protocal address management (IPAM) networking service.N/A
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    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
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    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    Additional DetailsSolarWinds professional support is included to help customers on active maintenance 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
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    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    The interface to manage and review IP addresses is easy to use and has low complexity. Any user can navigate the tool without issues. I highly recommend this product for a simple interface.
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    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Mainly just Excel and it obviously blows away a static spreadsheet.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    BT Diamond IP required the company remote to make changes we constantly had to message support which in my opinion was not worth it. All research said SolarWinds IP Address Manager was the best by a wide margin. We had no issues with SolarWinds IP Address Manager, and we got a …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Sorry.. this is the only real IPAM I have used. The old-fashioned way has always been a spreadsheet. So, IPAM is much better than the manual approach.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Solarwinds is an extension of those tools which allows us to benefit from a single management tool. It compliments other tools in the Solarwinds suite of tools. We are quite happy with the integration Solarwinds provides with these tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    I don't know of another solution that is as well-rounded and efficient as SolarWinds IPAM.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager was cheaper than both alternatives and far easier to manage. Device42 interface is years behind what Solarwinds offers. It is very outdated; BT Diamond required remote management and we constantly had to message support, it reached a point where …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Havent tried evaluating other products
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Comparing the HP OpenView, Solarwinds is much user friendly and easier to be used.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    I haven't used any of the other products listed but SolarWinds have been great for what I use it for.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    My company used SolarWinds and WhatsUp. SolarWinds was always considered our defacto leader for monitoring and alerting. I have yet to come across another product that is as robust, consistent, or competent as Solarwinds. As they say, you get what you pay for. If you're willing …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Besides Microsoft Excel spreadsheets I have only used IPAM.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    I have not used any other IPAM products, though I have priced them. SolarWinds is very competitive in this space.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    We are much comfortable in using SolarWinds over other IP Management tools such as Evolve IP or Efficient IP, since SolarWinds IPAM is not just good in IP Management, Dashboard, DNS and DHCP management as Automation, but the fact is we use other SolarWinds modules such as npm, …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    We actually tested the other one after the fact near the end of support license for SolarWinds. SolarWinds won because the other product could not match the things SolarWinds IP address Manager could do.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Bringing in IPAM rather than WhatsUp let[s] us keep all of our monitoring in one tool, rather than have 2 or 3 additional tools that we need to switch between.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    In the past we would just use RSAT tools or jump on a DC to set DNS and DHCP. Now it's all in one place with the same functionality.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    We checked Windows IPAM which seems well suited for smaller networks. Other products didn't cut it based on cost - this also integrates with the rest of our SolarWinds estate.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    The integration with the other SolarWinds products makes for a single pane of glass for management of your systems, which reduces administrative overhead compared with other solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    SolarWinds IPAM does unique things in the way it monitors IP addresses and allows exports into PDF or Excel spreadsheets.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    I hate to admit this, but I honestly did not even consider another solution after we evaluated IPAM. We had already been using DameWare for many years, so I knew that SolarWinds support was outstanding. Pulling the trigger on this purchase was not difficult.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    SolarWinds is easier to configure than every other tool I have used including Infoblox. If you already use SolarWinds for monitoring IPAM, it can be bolted on and set up in minutes. Alerts are pre-configured and there are existing "canned" reports. I have yet to meet an IT user …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    We particularly utilize Solarwinds Network Performance Manager (npm) and Solarwinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), so adding the IPAM module was pretty easy and a fast process to have all of the monitoring modules in a single server and single management plane. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    BlueCat has a better and more accurate discovery process where Solarwinds IPAM is more suitable for a larger network environment. Both are great tools.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    57 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    69 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    57 Answers
    User Ratings
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (94 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager is very useful the bigger and more complex the environment. Smaller organizations will have to consider the cost as it provides little benefit over monitoring maybe 2-3 servers. But I have over 24 DHCP servers with on average 15 subnets each so tracking and monitoring all that was very time-consuming. As a result, it was generally ignored until there was an issue. With SolarWinds IP Address Manager, I was able to set alerts to monitor scope utilization and duplicate IP addresses.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • With IPAM automated address scanning, we can be confident that we are looking at an up-to-date, accurate snapshot of our network.
    • The built-in alerts are a great safety net. We know that even if we aren't paying close attention to our IP address space, IPAM is. If a range is nearly full, IPAM lets us know before it becomes a real problem.
    • IPAM's event logging gives us insight into any and all changes made by our network engineers.
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • The user experience is not as intuitive as other products. We have to be more restrictive around level 1 help desk access compared to NCM or NPM in SolarWinds.
    • Making and enforcing changes, not just monitoring, has been hit or miss in some instances.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    We are heavily invested in SolarWinds. We currently own Network Performance Monitor, Netflow Traffic Analyzer, User Device Tracker, Server Application Monitor and Network Configuration Manager. We have NOC mode setup for deskside support for monitoring any down devices that may effect our network across the globe. This application gives us the information we need when we need it.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds IPAM is like what SolarWinds itself says, i.e. easy to use and simple. SolarWinds has really made their orion and non-orion platform products so simple that any newbie can give a try and make the best use out of it. I learned SolarWinds IPAM by myself in a POC environment, and not just IPAM but other modules and now I own 6 certifications. You see how easy to use this product is.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SolarWinds
    We don't have any issues with availability. Our cluster setup provide us a 99,9% availability that is enough for us.
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    Performance
    SolarWinds
    We do not integrate IPAM into other systems other than the standard Orion integration. The performance is reasonable, however, we are running all the SolarWinds applications on a very large server.
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    I have not contacted customer support and therefore have no experience in this area. I know we have some issues with our VAR support at this time for Orion, but I don't know if the IPAM falls into the same support structure. Perhaps others in the organization may know more regarding the support area.
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    Know the full scope of what you will be installing. Solarwinds can be a very complex installation. IPAM is just one fairly simplistic piece.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager was cheaper than both alternatives and far easier to manage. Device42 interface is years behind what Solarwinds offers. It is very outdated; BT Diamond required remote management and we constantly had to message support, it reached a point where it was better not to have the product at all.
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    Scalability
    SolarWinds
    We have not experienced any scalability issues with this product. However, SolarWinds needs to allow users to scale horizontally without any license restrictions. For example, we would like to separate Netflow and Orion onto different platforms but are unable to due to license restrictions.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • IPAM has saved countless hours of running scripts and gathering data to compile reports to plan re-subnetting globally.
    • IPAM has reduced helpdesk incidents by immediately spotting bad DNSR and IP conflicts.
    • IPAM has helped eliminate blocks on projects whereas there is not currently enough address space requiring major changes to accommodate more IP'ed servers, gear, etc.
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) Screenshots

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