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CS_LIU

Dear Santa,

Please bring me the following in IPAM v1.1

The ability to filter small blocks (/30's) tracked as a resource in IPAM but not needed as a top ten notify on web-page (I HATE RED!) when all host in subnet are allocated or reserved
- Tried manual never scan etc.
NPM Custom Property Integration
Traps
Separate import export functionality for low level users who need to export IP's without granting power-user status
Much better subnetting of parent IP blocks (i.e. a class C carved up for loopbacks, or 30's) - rather than create new subnets, keep the subnets within a parent IP (no matter how big or small the parent bits are) with the ability to create subnets within that block.
The ability to report on container groups
The ability to filter IP's by groups
The ability to filter groups of IP's and then assign them to user accounts within Solar Winds web accounts (example - I'm an international shop, I want my London folks to only see those IP's I've cataloged as belonging to London, and Asia Pacific, Asia pacific IP's)
A pony
and a plastic rocket

PS - If any of Santa's elves can answer to these points now, thanks for that

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bshopp

Terrific feedback and for sure noted.

I can say # 8 is high on my hit list for the next release and other items listed above we already had on the list. I would like try pry into a couple of these items further.

Traps - what are you thinking here, just filtered intergration with the Orion Trap view?

Reporting on contrainer groups - I assume you mean categories? Do you have something specific in mind you would like to report on?

Keep the feedback coming!!

CS_LIU

Traps is the wrong word,

I'd like the ability to generate a filterable event within Solarwinds Alert Manager. When a scope reaches a certain threshold, a scripted event of some sort would then take place. That would lend itself well to work flows as an admin receives an email regarding DHCP scope and modifies excluded/reserved IP's based on usage to relieve the pressure.

Reporting on container groups - group being the key word. So my IP "tree" has the master high level group, with child groups for each region of the world, DMZ's, CIDR's, Public IP, Management networks, wireless networks, available networks, transport networks, and loopbacks within it.

Having the ability to pick a group from my tree and generate a report on it (any available report) would be swell.

And yes, for what SWis asking for this product, you can bet I'll be keeping the feedback coming.

Again, the ability to subnet a given network and have it remain in it's parent group without having to create individual networks separately would be really handy. You could add a tag under status for those IP's lost to subnetting when the parent IP is carved up.

Cheers

mtxpert

I'd like to add that the user integration should allow specific users to be assigned to specific groups and that they can assign IP addresses in those groups but not be able to edit outside of those groups.

CS_LIU

When editing idividual objects within a scanned subnet, completing the editing returns the to the first page of the subnet.
- it would be nice to stay on the range (page) being edited, it saves the user from scouring through supernets finding the particular resource they were editing when done.

Please add a "Do not ask me again" check box when editing an ip resource

IP type from dynamic to static user managed

bshopp

Got it, already high on the list for a future release

dgrant

I have a pretty simple request (I think).

I prefer to use the subnet address for the Display Name of the subnet, so that I can quickly scan all the subnets in the left pane and find the one I am looking for.

The problem is that IPAM does not list the IP subnets in the correct order in the left-pane. For example, a /24 subnetted into /29's should look like this:

10.1.1.0 /29
10.1.1.16/29
10.1.1.24/29
10.1.1.32/29
....
10.1.1.112 /29

etc

IPAM lists it like this:

10.1.1.0 /29
10.1.1.112 /29
10.1.1.120 /29
...
10.1.1.16 /29

As you can see, the subnets get jumbled up.

Also, by default, the right-pane orders the subnets in the same way. However, you can click on the Address column and it will re-order the subnets correctly. It would be nice to have a way to define the default ordering method/column for both the right and left-pane.

Just getting started, will be back with more!

dgrant

I said I'd be back, but didnt think this quickly:

When adding a new subnet, by default, IPAM marks the First address and last address as Subnet Address and Broadcast Address respectively (as it should). However, only the Broadcast Address is marked as "Reserved". The Subnet Address should be "Reserved" as well.

bshopp

dgrant

Let me look into that, completely agree and I will file a defect.

AlbanyNYMike

Wish List:

The scanning interval GUI is horrendus. Get rid of the touchy slider and let us just type in the times we want to scan. Also, give some flexibility. Maybe I dont want my scopes scanned on Thursdays. Who knows. But the slider should go.

Why, everytime I make any change to an IP, after the change loads, I am directed back to page one of my range? This is frustrating. After I endit an IP on page 5 of my range, I would like to stay on page 5. Not go back to 1.

IP Range -

Adding an IP range works perfect. Deleting an IP range is torture. Unless I am missing something, to delete an IP range, you have to manually select the IPs in the range. Why cant the delete work jsut as the add works. Just type in my starting and ending IPs, and choose whether to delete or add.

Multiple selections:

PLease fix the multiselect option. Right now, I have to click in the ROW, hold down shift, then click in another ROW to select all rows in between. What are the checkboxes for? The multiselect does not work when using the checkboxes. weird.

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.

bshopp

Good feedback, thank you. Most of it we already have documented within our system

dgrant

I would like to 2nd the request to have a way to turn off the "alarming" based on how many IP's are free.

In my environment, I have alot of small subnets (/30's and /29's) and they are expected to use most or all of the IP's. It would be nice to be able to turn off the alarming on a per-subnet basis.

It would also be nice to be able to customize the color coding of the subnets. As I mentioned, I dont really care how many IP's are available in my network. But I would like to be able to color code the subnets. I currently do this in Excel, marking subnets that are not in use Red, and subnets that are live Green.

Additionally, it would be nice to have a way to add custom "Status" tags & colors for the IP's.

FormerMember

I would like to 2nd the request to have a way to turn off the "alarming" based on how many IP's are free.
In my environment, I have alot of small subnets (/30's and /29's) and they are expected to use most or all of the IP's. It would be nice to be able to turn off the alarming on a per-subnet basis.

ABSOLUTLEY!!! what dgrant and AlbanyNYMike say. Great requests! I hate the slide bar for scanning interval.

BakerD

A History field that keeps say the last 5 IP/DNS matches or have it user setable to maybe days/weeks to keep the history. This would be good for those subnets like DHCP ranges that are scanned often. I can see where someone might need to see who had an IP a few hours or days ago or even last week, but if a scan has already run and updated it's status there is no way to know.

Or even if someone edits an IP by mistake, it would be easy to see what is was before and change it back.

Or maybe a history that just keeps the last 5 changes and not base it on a time frame.

Thanks

bshopp

BakerD,

We do keep a history of events within IPAM. You can see the last XX events from the IPAM Summary Home page or you can use Report Writer to get a larger set or filter down event history.

FormerMember

Within the IP Networks tree, I would like to be able at a glance to scan/scroll down the tree and see what supernets or subnets are used (i.e., at least one host address detected/assigned). One means of doing this would be appending Available/Used/Transient counts to the end of the Display Name or added as another column. For examples, for a 24 bit network using subnet/CIDR for the Display name...

10.1.1.0 /24 (150/104/0)

10.1.2.0 /24 (254/0/0)

10.1.1.0 /24 (Avail/150, Used/104,Trans/0)

10.1.2.0 /24 (Unused)

I would also like to have the option to select configured custom properties that have been assigned to the supernet/subnet also be displayable in the tree. Would also like to be able to resize the column (which you cannot do with Display Name and Description either) and sort the tree by custom property.

iainskwatt

I would like to request the ability to edit multiple addresses at once. I had to go through changing the type on over 100 addresses earlier, one by one. If I could tick all the addresses I wanted and the click edit so I could edit the fields that could be the same, like Type, Vendor, etc.

It took me ages to change the type on the 100+ addresses.

bshopp

Got it, this is one we have heard from many users and will address in a future release

dyarnevich

I'd love to see an automated daemon form of the Switch Port Mapper from the Engineers Toolset integrated with this module to bring full drill-down intelligence of IP information within the network. It would run against the device database in NPM to gather information and pump into IPAM.

I want ARP and CAM information scraped out of my routers, firewalls and switches such that I can do things like either add tabs with the switch hostname/IP, port number, and MAC address for each IP entry to the table view, or alternatively hide those tabs and be able to click an IP to drill into this information.

Currently there are few options for this information in a vendor-neutral context. There's Netdisco (open-source, but very out-of-date in terms of development), Infoblox PortIQ (appliance that they sell standalone, and to hook into their appliance IPAM solution), and perhaps a couple others. I'd love to have this intelligence brought into the Orion pane of glass.

In my view, this information is integral to any IPAM solution, though it's essentially never provided as an "under-one-roof" feature.

Regards,

David

KCWayner

I would like to see an Audit report of what IP's are found within IPAM but are not within NPM. We have a lot of people that add devices and it would be nice to find them without having to manually go through and check each one.

jwesley

CS_LIU,

Here's what I use to get rid of those RED /30 subnets...

Top 10 Subnets by % IP Address Used --> Edit
Filter Subnets (SQL): Subnet.CIDR = 24 (enter this filter, see if that works for you)

HTH....

bshopp

I'd love to see an automated daemon form of the Switch Port Mapper from the Engineers Toolset integrated with this module to bring full drill-down intelligence of IP information within the network. It would run against the device database in NPM to gather information and pump into IPAM.
I want ARP and CAM information scraped out of my routers, firewalls and switches such that I can do things like either add tabs with the switch hostname/IP, port number, and MAC address for each IP entry to the table view, or alternatively hide those tabs and be able to click an IP to drill into this information.
Currently there are few options for this information in a vendor-neutral context. There's Netdisco (open-source, but very out-of-date in terms of development), Infoblox PortIQ (appliance that they sell standalone, and to hook into their appliance IPAM solution), and perhaps a couple others. I'd love to have this intelligence brought into the Orion pane of glass.
In my view, this information is integral to any IPAM solution, though it's essentially never provided as an "under-one-roof" feature.

David, this is for sure a terrific idea we have heard and talked about internally as well to consider for a future release

Danglebbits

Is there any way to alert me when Key ip addresses become "live".

For example when we open a new site the router address is always .1 If i can be alerted if goes from unused to used then i can track which of my sites are coming online ahead or behind schedule.

Cheers

Dan

bshopp

As a formal build in feature of IPAM using the alerting framework, not currently, we have that as an open enhancement request. However, do you own APM? If so, there is a workaround you could possibly use.

BMac

Would like the ability to scan large block of addresses (/8 or /16 for instance) and search for a contiguous block of IPs (/24 for instance).

FormerMember

We would like the ability to add our own statuses and color codes for example....Static Networked printers -brown, video conference systems - blue.

We would also like the ability to specify which SNMP strings are associated with which subnet so that the system doesn't have to go through 3 community strings before it gets to the correct one for client B's subnet.

mavturner

Thanks for the feedback guod and aaron_daniels. Those are features we've had other customers request too.

Don331

Wish List: Be able to permanently exclude a range of IP's from being scanned within a subnet.

Why? Really couldn't care less about what happens within our scope areas, which typically (with a class C subnet) are the .101 -.254 addresses. They get DHCP addresses, and that's great......

But, I REALLY want to know when something plants it's IP-butt in the .1 -.100 range, as all of those should be static addresses - servers, printers, video cameras, etc.

Don

mavturner

Don,

That is an interesting request. Does it cause any problems to scan those addresses or are you just trying to minimize the amount of traffic being sent? Anyone else out there think this would be useful in their environment?

Mav

smartd

I'd like to be able to check the box on an IP in IPAM subnet details, and create a managed node in Orion NPM. IPAM works like a discovery tool, so this would be a nice addition.

smartd

I evaluated a full blown IPAM tool, and they had a subnet template tool that would automatically assign ip ranges to DHCP, different VLANs, etc when the subnet is created. Now, these tools built the DHCP... Didn't just report them... so this was more critical.