General IPAM Questions

sdawson35

Hi,

We have only recently started to use ipam but I think we are confused as to what it actually does for us and how to make it do what we want it to do.

We don't own our own routers (all outsourced and no access)  - Do I need to manually enter the various ip ranges ? (and if so do I just create a group (say per site or geographic location)and add to that ?

I have already defined our DHCP and DNS servers and have all the dhcp and dns zones viewable but how does that work if I am manually adding the ip ranges ?

Regards

Scott.

jm_sysadmin

You have the right idea I think. We have access to the routers, and still preferred to manually organize and import. Start with the groups, and your mileage may vary, but we did a site, building, floor tree for the campuses and a few dedicated to the data centers and some misc network resources.
Then use either the spreadsheet import:
Import a spreadsheet of subnets or IP addresses
or Bulk Add:

Bulk Add Subnets

I like to do that per group, but you can do them all and drag and drop from the left column if you prefer. Shout at me if you need anything or if I misunderstood.