Item: SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It easily maintains my IP addresses.
Export of IP information to a CSV.
Scanning of subnets to look for stale/transient assigned IP addresses.

Cons

It meets my needs.

Return on Investment

Moving from spreadsheets to manually track IP address assignments to IPAM has reduced the potential for error as the IPSM DB is maintained more easily.
The API integration with our ansible scripts has improved provisioning times for servers as it removes a manual step of assigning a static address.

Alternatives Considered

Excel was the only other tool used.

Support Rating

I found SW support staff to be responsive to requests, but they will typically point to a document rather than guide you through a fix or process.

Key Insights

Do you think SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm), Box, Slack

Likelihood to Recommend

I think for a basic IP address management tool, it meets the needs. We haven't really stretched the implementation to integrate with our DHCP scope provisioning or DNS registrations. We use the native Windows tools for this.

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Using for Basic IPAM, it meets my needs.