Rethinking of IPAM - VLANs, Inventory, Circuit IDs, Phones/VoIP

We use IPAM quite heavily, and I think it could be much, much more useful if it was looked at a little differently.

Instead of just being an IP Address management system, why not a List management system?

Right now, we have IP Addresses in IPAM, but VLANs in a spreadsheet, Circuit IDs in a spreadsheet... Phone numbers for OOB in a spreadsheet, inventory in another, etc etc

Why not be able to create custom lists? At the top level, you create "IP Addressing", "VLANs", etc.. then be able to break them out in menus the same way we currently do for IP Addressing.

So rethinking IPAM in to a List Manager.

--Ron

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FormerMember

We are in the same boat as you.

One way I did was to create a new Folder called "VLAN PLAN" and created sub-folders which I renamed for each VLAN we had..

It takes alot of work, so we just scratched it for now..

But some way to handle VLANS would be very very appreciated.. How about a way just to list all VLAN's that are already in IPAM?

michal.hrncirik

This would be now possible via custom reports (report manager)

FormerMember

Solarwinds needs to step up their game for larger enterprise customers..

No Subnet search, custom fields (no searchability), vlan lists, numrerical listings

It feels like the normal Solarwinds customer has 5 networks and only uses the default view..

NetEng33

Yeah, Vlans and network segments - default Gateways are in spreadsheets in our environment as well. All of this is easily added into IPAM, however I have found the same challenges when searching for information. It is inefficient and cumbersome to try and find the right information quickly and easily. Even baby steps to displaying information where it is readily available and especially search and reporting capabilities.

It would be nice to see this on our chart tab when looking at a segment:

I can't modify that page (that I can see) and it is pretty limited in the amount of information it displays with no way to modify what is displayed or not displayed, or where.

Respectfully,

NetEng33

bluefunelemental

I'd like to track cable numbers and demarc information but find the use of custom fields cumbersome, besides having the information disappear when an IP becomes available would not work. So I have to keep that info elsewhere and use foreign keys to report between them.