Hi All,
I need a comparison between this : phpIPAM IPAM IP address management software and Solarwinds IPAM IP Address Management Software | SolarWinds
I'm trying to persuade my current customer that the great features in Solarwinds IPAM are the right way to go. We already have NPM and SAM here.
If anyone has any good comparisons then i'd be eternally grateful.
Adam
Okay so here is my proposal to my current customer... based upon Solarwinds marketing... sorry PHPIPAM...
Automated IP address tracking
Automated subnet discovery and IP address scanning search your network so you know how IPs are used.
Just enter the supernet and all the IP addresses will be discovered. No lengthy manual /24 scanning like with PHPIPAM.
Integrated DHCP, DNS, and IP address management
Save time and enhance network reliability with integrated DHCP, DNS, and IP address management.
PHPIPAM doesn't integrate with DNS or DHCP.
IP address alerting, troubleshooting, and reporting
Get alerts and troubleshoot IPs address conflicts, subnets/scopes, and DNS entries.
PHPIPAM doesn't alert about conflicts. It won't send emails to engineers.
Multi-vendor DHCP and DNS Support
Centrally monitor your DHCP and DNS servers, including Microsoft, Infoblox, Cisco, ISC, BIND as well as Amazon Route 53 and Azure DNS. Additionally, user can create, edit, or remove scopes, zones, and records for Microsoft, Cisco, ISC, and BIND servers.
Automate static IP address requests
SolarWinds IPAM’s IP Request Wizard automates static IP requests to speed the deployment of devices.
IP Addresses can be assigned from within Solarwinds meaning less risk because of engineers logging in to servers.
The automatically gathered information that Solarwinds IPAM gives engineers is more comprehensive than that which PHPIPAM offers which is an important factor. With Solarwinds an engineer gets automatic access to hostnames, ip addresses and conflicts / usage reporting, MAC addresses, CPU/MEMORY/DISK usage, and port/switch information.
With PHPIPAM most of the information has to be entered manually. With Solarwinds the information gathered from initial ICMP scans along with DNS and DHCP scans builds a complete picture of your IP managed infrastructure. When the IPAM information is combined with Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Server and Application Monitor (SAM) which we already have, it becomes a useful tool for planning projects, solving infrastructure IP problems and providing information and awareness to all the engineering teams.
Conclusion
Solarwinds IPAM will save us a lot of work both now and in the future in terms of configuration and ongoing management as the integrations between the products and the infrastructure make it a powerful management/fault finding and project resource.
PHPIPAM will require a lot more manual configuration and ongoing maintenance to keep it running correctly and won’t link in to DHCP/DNS or existing monitoring of the nodes.
