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What is SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)?
Austin-based SolarWinds offers Internet Protocal address management (IPAM) networking service.
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What is SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)?
IPAM integrates DHCP, DNS, and IP address management. Automated subnet discovery and IP scanning scours your network so you always know how IPs are used. Be alerted to and fix IPs conflicts, depleted subnets/scopes, and mismatched DNS entries. Delegate IP administration so system and network admins can manage their own range of IPs. Get the nitty-gritty details on IPs and how they’ve been used—even in the distant past.
SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) Features
- Supported: Automated IP address tracking
- Supported: Integrated DHCP, DNS, and IP address management
- Supported: IP address alerting, troubleshooting, and reporting
- Supported: Multi-vendor on-prem and cloud DHCP and DNS support
- Supported: IP Request Form for streamlining and automating IP address requests
- Supported: API support with CRUD operations for two-way integration with third-party software
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SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) Competitors
- ManageEngine OpUtils
- Men & Mice
- Managing and maintaining internal spreadsheets
SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Orion Platform products can be deployed on physical or virtual servers on-premises or in the cloud. These products can also be deployed via Azure or AWS marketplaces. For detailed system requirements, visit support.solarwinds.com. |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Austin-based SolarWinds offers Internet Protocal address management (IPAM) networking service.
ManageEngine OpUtils are common alternatives for SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM).
Reviewers rate Support Rating and Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Convenient Integration: Many users have found IPAM's integration with the SolarWinds suite to be convenient for tracking multiple sites and subnets. This feature has been praised by several reviewers as it allows them to easily manage their IP address allocation and DNS updates in one centralized solution.
Efficient IP Management: The ability of IPAM to manage IP addresses and update DNS as soon as a device is discovered has been highly valued by users. This functionality has proven useful for managing IP address availability and ensuring accurate DNS updates, according to numerous reviewers.
Effective Capacity Planning: Users appreciate IPAM's ability to reserve and comment on IP addresses for effective IP address allocation and capacity planning. Several reviewers have noted that this feature helps them allocate IPs efficiently, avoid conflicts, and plan for future network expansion.
Slow, Clunky Web Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the slow, clunky web interface of SolarWinds IP Address Manager. Users find it difficult to navigate and perform tasks efficiently, impacting their overall experience with the software.
Difficult Initial Setup: Several reviewers have reported that the initial setup of the software is not user-friendly and requires a learning curve. This can be challenging for new users who are unfamiliar with the Orion platform.
Limited Options for Organizing Devices: Users have complained about the limited options for organizing devices in SolarWinds IP Address Manager. They feel that there is a lack of flexibility in the licensing tiers and find it difficult to effectively organize their devices as per their requirements.
Users commonly recommend the following regarding the software for managing IP addresses:
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Trying the free option before purchasing: Many users suggest taking advantage of the free version of the software to get a feel for its functionality and suitability for their needs. This allows users to assess whether it meets their requirements before committing to a paid version.
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Considering other options like InfoBlox and Mice & Men: Some users suggest exploring alternative software options such as InfoBlox or Mice & Men. These alternatives may offer different features or better meet specific requirements, so users recommend comparing different solutions to find the best fit.
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Looking for bundle purchase with other products for a better deal: Reviewers mention that while the software itself can be pricey, they recommend exploring bundle purchases that include additional products or services. By bundling multiple products together, users may be able to secure a better deal or more cost-effective licensing options.
It is important to note that users also mention areas for improvement, such as inadequate support and resource-intensive nature of the software. However, these are not counted as among the three most common recommendations.
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June 28, 2020
SolarWinds IPAM Review
We use SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) to discover all our IP addresses in various subnets and manage IP address space. It's used by the IT Department, specifically by the NOC and Networking departments, but also we manage our entire corporate network. We have a lot of network equipment and use IPAM is the best of the best.
- Quick and easy reference
- Database of IPs Addresses
- DHCP scope
- IP conflict prevention
- Really nothing at this time
We use IPAM as our authoritative IP address collector for the entire firm. This eliminates all the different spreadsheets that need to be tracked and constantly updated. This also allows a one-stop-shop for requesting an IP address, and the ability to see what is currently in production.
- IP tracking
- DHCP scope check and alerts
- IP conflict prevention
- Generating quick reports for subnet usage
- It could pull data from the other modules to prevent entering data at multiple places.
- Allow for public IP redundancy.
June 22, 2020
IPAM great value, easy to deploy and use
It is deployed for the whole company. We use it to track IP addresses across our corporate and retail locations. It allows us to centrally assign and view address info across all of IT in a searchable DB with history.
- Shares info easily across departments in user-friendly UI.
- Auto discovers and updates IP info through regular scans.
- Provides history for DHCP addresses (useful for forensics).
- Good single pane of glass UI integration with other SolarWinds products.
- Only have 3 tiers of licensing small/medium/unlimited - we are just north of medium so had to buy unlimited.
- Sometimes overwrites manually entered data even though told not to.
June 17, 2020
SolarWinds IP Address Manager - the best tool there is for keeping your network organized!
We use IPAM to manage our extremely large network of statically assigned subnets, VLANs, and addresses. The network we manage is carrier-scale and stretches over a thousand square miles, with each device on the network having its address manually assigned. Without being able to rely on DHCP pools, we are left to manage our addressing scheme and assignments by hand, which was previously done by spreadsheet. Now, with IPAM, we can easily track what devices have what IPs, what subnets are available for assignment/expansion, and what addresses can be retired or recycled without needing to manage a large, unruly Excel file.
- Organizing networks, subnets, and addresses logically using intuitive folders and hierarchical structure.
- Tracking and displaying statistics for subnet allocation usage, available space, and exceeded capacity.
- Providing details necessary for future network expansion.
- Making it easy to associate an occupied address with the assigned device in npm.
- The interface is DHCP-heavy, so if you don't use that feature it can be annoying.
- The interface assumes that full = bad, so if you have well-utilized subnets with lots of assigned devices, you'll also have lots of warning icons, which can be annoying.
- If your network is SNMP-heavy, having to manage SNMP credentials in both npm and IPAM can be irritating.
June 17, 2020
SolarWinds IPAM - easy-to-use IP address management!
We're using it within the IT department. It's used to manage IP ranges, typically to find free IP addresses when needed. It's used to show the ranges currently owned by my company, and what addresses within them are used. In particular, we use it to find devices that may not be in DNS.
- Manages IP address ranges.
- Shows free IP addresses.
- Shows devices not in DNS.
- Could do with better automation and mapping. We are using an older version, though.
- Needs a bit of experience to use.
- Reporting could be better.
June 12, 2020
Best value for the money
We use SolarWinds IPAM to manage our entire IP address space. We've defined granular role-based access policies to allow local administrators to manage their local IP address Space. Windows DHCP integration allows creating DHCP reservations directly from SolarWinds IPAM console, eliminating the need to grant access to DHCP servers to local admins or power users. Finally, we got rid of the spreadsheets, which were always out of date and not synchronized with our DHCP and DNS.
- DHCP integration
- Automatic device discovery
- Granular role-based administration
- L2 discovery using local agents
- Reporting
- Public IP Address space management
We use it for tracking IP address and subnets in our organization. IPAM worked very well in our department, making it easier to manage and visualize the IP addresses and even find duplicates used addresses. In conjunction with been able to connect and manage our DHCP servers. The ability to pull together data from multiple DHCP/DNS servers is a big win. It has a simple UI, well designed, intuitive and clearly laid-out.
- Charts show status of subnets at-a-glance.
- Top 10 lists identify which subnets and scopes are low on free space from DHCP.
- You can search by vendor, mac, ip address and a lot of more options.
- You can create reports and export them to csv.
- If your network is too big, IPAM takes a long time to rescan all the devices.
- You need to install IPAM in a killer server to at least do not decrease the performance of other Solarwinds products running in the same server.
June 09, 2020
Using for Basic IPAM, it meets my needs.
We utilize IPAM today across our Infrastructure and Operations teams. We use it for static IP assignments, DHCP monitoring. No DNS. We have recently been using API calls via an Ansible script to assign IP addresses to new servers.
- It easily maintains my IP addresses.
- Export of IP information to a CSV.
- Scanning of subnets to look for stale/transient assigned IP addresses.
- It meets my needs.
June 09, 2020
SolarWinds IPAM
We currently use IPAM to manage the VLAN for over 40 sites. We utilize the tool with servers, users, and VOIP VLANs.
- Automatically updates subnet usage.
- Integration with DNS.
- Integration with other products could be simpler but isn't bad.
We use SolarWinds IP Address Manager to track all IP addresses used in our organization. It allows us to scan our network for IP ranges and manually put in IP ranges and descriptions for those ranges. It also lets us set different status on an IP if it is used reserved or open etc. We also put descriptions on IP addresses that we have used.
- It will scan network and find used IPs and put them in transient status if it was used and now is not reachable
- Allows you to manually create ranges and scan network for IP ranges
- Able to setup descriptions on IP addresses if they are used
- I cannot think of a way to make this better off the top of my head.
June 04, 2020
SolarWinds IP Address Manager Review
We use SolarWinds IP Address Manager to keep track of our IP management since that can be a job in itself. Keeping tabs on IP address spaces is vital to keep a network running smoothly. While SolarWinds free IP Address Tracker is not as powerful as the paid IPAM, it keeps IP addressing organized. And it is simple to use and very friendly.
- IP Address Tracker will allow you to scan multiple subnets
- Display if those addresses are used, available, or reserved
- Also, the fact you can export to Excel for spreadsheets and such awesome features are a plus
- Very simple and easy to use
- The web console needs a little work
- Uses too many resources for database
- Some compatibility issues with SQL Server
- Not user-friendly unless you work on it or if that was your only job.
June 04, 2020
SolarWinds IPAM: You need it
Currently, we use IPAM to verify systems active on the network. Mostly servers and network-attached devices. This allows us to keep track of IP space and what is not set up properly for monitoring. So if you cannot ping it, is it there? Like the tree in the forest, did it make a sound? It also helps with the reservations of devices that need static IPs. Are my devices in DNS properly? IPAM helps me determine reverse looks ups for hosts in DNS. These items and some others were the determining factors for purchasing this software.
- Keeps track of IPs using scheduled scans.
- I can run reports to tell me what my subnet usage is and provide the data to back it up.
- It's web-based. I don't need a thick client and no Java/Flash needed.
- Nothing to see here. We are happy with the product.
- Great community support, not really a bad thing.
It's being used across our entire organization as we have almost over 300 networked devices including PCs, printers, servers, etc. and our main subnet is quickly reaching capacity so we use this application to manage what little IPs we have left available.
- Up-to-date list of available and used IPs.
- Easy to access, read, and manage.
- Highlight the other features of the application.
June 04, 2020
SolarWinds IP Address Manager Review
It is being used by the department to keep track of available IP addresses in conjunction with inventory device data from SolarWinds NPM.
- Shows availability status of an address.
- Pulls reverse DNS information.
- Pull a list of forward DNS info.
- Allow manually written metadata to keep rather than get overwritten during scans.
- Group by custom property.
We use it to inventory and identify devices on our network, especially non windows devices that don't normally show up in other applications.
- I like its discovery process for identifying IP addresses.
- The interface is fairly straightforward.
- It isn't always clear how the software tracks devices over time. For example the difference between something that is gone vs. not currently online.
IPAM allows us to keep track of all of our different servers and prevent IP collisions. It's like a database for all of your IP addresses and what they're being used for (websites, servers, etc.). IPAM is being used by the IT department in support of all local IPs for the entire organization.
- Database of IPs
- Up/down status
- Visualization
- Website theming
May 29, 2020
After IPAM, hard to go back to spreadsheets
SolarWinds IPAM is the way we can keep IP information in order all across the credit union. We share IPAM among a couple of groups. Although we administer it, others can view it.
- It gives us a good reference of what we have available.
- It allows us to reuse and use any unused IP, visualization
- Allows some other teams to see the different IP ranges based on different subnets.
- The edit part is tricky because it lets you select several, but only edit one .
- A big subnet does not show on the right pane.
- The scrolling on the bottom part of the IP address view would be nice if you could select the range.
May 29, 2020
Must have tool for your data center
I like to use the Solarwind IP Address Manager to discover all our IP addresses in different subnets, including AWS and Azure, even in an on-premise data center. The only challenge I found is that it's hard to move the existing group to another group. Other than that, I find it a good tool to have.
- Easy to use
- Centralize management of your IP inventory
- IP Address Inventory
- Moving existing group is a little bit of a challenge.
May 27, 2020
SolarWinds IPAM a huge let down
Score 1 out of 10
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Plan is/was to use it across the organisation globally and it should allow us to move away from traditional and, based on the experience to date with IPAM, more reliable spreadsheets. It will be setup by the network team, but made widely available to other departments including virtualisation, servers and our Global Support Centre.
- The GUI is to the usual Solarwinds standard
- Licensing
- Lack of Operational Intuition
- Lack of effective and efficient support
We use it to poll our devices across our Network. It helps provide information on the used IP addresses along with manufacture of the device, MAC address and Hostname. You can also manually enter the information. It is a great tool to document the IP addresses so that you don't duplicate them.
- Device polling
- Device information - MAC address, hostname, and manufacturer
- Pie Chart - Gives you an easy way to tell how many IPs you have used.
- The larger the database, the slower it responds.
- The polling engine will freeze from time to time.
- Export to CSV
We currently use SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) throughout our school district, tracking our entire IP space at 27 separate schools, and the district office. IP management had previously been managed by a loosely held conventions used by most technicians, attempting to use static IP addresses for anything that was not on WiFi.
- Ease of use
- Integration with SolarWinds Orion platform.
- Tighter integration with NPM would be beneficial.
May 16, 2020
I Like SolarWinds
We are using it to manage external IP addresses and are evaluating/implementing internal IP addresses.
- IT does keep track of IP addresses.
- It can tell us if they are in use.
- We are able to see utilization of subnets at a glance.
- Better detection of an IP address in use.
- Requires manual intervention.
- Automated updates of addresses in use would be great.
We use Solarwinds IPAM in a production environment to document all of our customer-facing SaaS environment ip addressing. There is some work being done using the GUI and other work has been automated using the API. The long-term goal is to use the API for more automation, as currently our traditional environment is not using this automation.
- The Solarwinds IPAM supports creating custom fields, which simplifies automation scripting.
- The Solarwinds IPAM supports bulk importing from a variety of flat file formats, which is great for initial seeding, if the API is not being used.
- The API is straightforward, and can be leveraged by novice scripting programmers.
- It needs to support searching on custom fields.
- Moving objects around between folders should be more free-form, currently there are esoteric restrictions.
- Multi-select for network objects should be supported - IE for drop/drag into folders.
May 11, 2020
Makes managing IP addresses easier
We use SolarWinds IP Address Manager within the IP department to manage our IP address space, keeping track of subnets and the servers on them (where they have manually allocated IP addresses). The customers for the tool tend to be either the network team or engineers building new servers who need an IP address.
- Presenting a visual representation of how the IP address space is carved up
- Providing a quick way for engineers to self-allocate new IP addresses (thanks to the access model which lets us give them just the permissions they need)
- Having an API, so that automated server build tools can allocate their own IP addresses from a range
- The only real problem we have is where people haven't manually entered enough information into the tool.
May 06, 2020
I'm not married to it.
IP Manager helps us manage our subnets and IP requests across the organization. We have added all of our onprem subnets, along with custom properties to help us identified location, role, geolocation, and facility. These custom properties then automatically populate on down to the node which consumes an IP in the subnet. Along with organizing our environment, it helps us prevent IP conflicts.
- Subnet identification and management
- IP management, organization, and conflict prevention
- Lack of support for Azure virtual networks
- Needs full integration with other Solarwinds\Orion modules