[ppml] IP Address Management Tools

[Bill Van Emburg]

I've recently run into another product that might fit the need, QIP.  It 
was created by a company called, Quadritek, and sold to Lucent in 1999. 
  If you go to http://www.quadritek.com, it'll take you to the right 
place within a Lucent web site.

I haven't used the product, but it looks interesting for this type of 
application, and it's been used by enterprises for a while.
-- 
				     -- Bill Van Emburg
					Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
					(mailto:bve at quadrix.com)
					(http://quadrix.com)
		The eBusiness Solutions Company

Hank Harris wrote:

> You should go to www.visualware.com and look at their
> DesktopResponse and VisualPulse products.  The first will do what
> you are looking for.
> 
> Hank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net]On Behalf
> Of
> Zeibari, Gregory
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:26 AM
> To: 'Michael.Dillon at radianz.com'; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [ppml] IP Address Management Tools
> 
> 
> just an FYI...
> 
> We have been working with a Company named Diamond IP
> Technologies, to
> develop such a tool to help us manage all of our private and
> public IP
> space, called NetControl.
> 
> Please contact Michael Dooley directly at mdooley at diamondip.com,
> 610-423-4770 for more information.
> 
> Thanks.
> Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael.Dillon at radianz.com
> [mailto:Michael.Dillon at radianz.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: [ppml] IP Address Management Tools
> 
> 
> A few weeks ago, John Lewis said:
> 
> 
>>It doesn't help that there seems to be no suitable tool for
> 
> tracking IP
> 
>>utilization to the degree that ARIN applications require...at
> 
> least none
> 
>>that I've seen, and I've installed and tested several of the
> 
> free
> 
>>ones...and never got anywhere trying to get info or a test drive
> 
> out of a
> 
> 
>>commercial one.  This means for the average ISP, ARIN
> 
> application time is
> 
> 
>>also IP utilization audit time.  Not a fun time for whoever does
> 
> it.
> 
> 
>>If someone were to develop an affordable (to the average small
> 
> ISP) tool
> 
>>for IP allocation tracking, and applying for more space was
> 
> reduced to
> 
>>filling out a few text fields on the ARIN application and
> 
> including a
> 
>>report from your allocation tracking system, I think there'd be
> 
> alot less
> 
> 
>>complaining about the 3-month's supply policy by ISPs when they
> 
> get to
> 
>>their 3rd allocation and finally get slapped down by the 3-month
> 
> policy.
> 
> I suggest that ARIN should provide such a tool in furtherance of
> its
> purposes such as numbers 4, 5 and 8. You can read the full text
> of those
> numbered purposes at this URL:
> http://www.arin.net/library/corp_docs/amend_june_19_1997.pdf
> 
> I would like to see a discussion of this on the agenda at the
> next members
> meeting.
> 
> I envisage this tool as something which uses a proper
> hierarchical data
> model for IP addresse, not a relational data model, and which
> uses an
> appropriate programming language which could be incorporated into
> commercial software packages or adopted by enterprise IT
> departments. That
> probably means a Java framework combined with Python for
> scripting glue.
> http://www.jython.org
> 
> Some things which are definitely not appropriate are MySQL and
> PERL. There
> are already several hack jobs that people have thrown together
> using PERL
> and MySQL but they don't do the job well enough, would never be
> adopted by
> enterprise IT departments or commercial network management
> packages. In
> addition, MySQL is a RELATIONAL database but IP address ranges
> are
> hierarchical in nature and are better suited to an
> object-oriented or a
> hierarchical database model. The intention is not to do another
> hack job
> but to provide a reference implementation that other people will
> adopt and
> integrate into their larger systems.
>