This is what we've needed for years. Thank you.
Feature request: A consultant from SolarWinds to come out and import the sheets and sheets and sheets of IPAs we have.
Yikes. I just called and had the licensing explained to me. I had to hear it in verbally and from two people at SW so much was my desire for it not to be true.
If you want to document your subnets with IPAM, you will need a license to cover all the addresses in all the subnets whether you use them (the addresses) or not. That may be obvious to some and perhaps it was wishful thinking on my part for it to be otherwise.
A small to medium business may have far, far fewer hosts than allocated address space. For example, sites with 30 hosts and a /24 assigned, or 250 hosts and a /23. Add up all the sites with under utilized address space and instead of a 1024 IPA license you need the IPX.
A great tool but we may lose the opportunity to own it.
I know the feeling. One of the fools... I mean engineers previous to me used /16's for some of our networks... Networks with 50ish computers.
The price on the IPX is frankly a bit insane for someone with about 1500-2000 nodes on the network.
There is no literature on the licensing on solarwinds.com - What are the licensing points?
The only two I remember off the top of my head were
IP4k (4096 addresses) = ~$4000
IPX (Unlimited) = ~15k...
I have over 15,000 IPs...
$1/IP? Realy?!
15k is 2x too much for a simple icmp ping tool.
Now you see what I'm saying... because of our dumb IP scheme, I'd be forced to the IPX which is $10/node on my network.
My boss'd laugh at me.
Hey all, I just wanted to take a second and respond and make sure there is no confusion in the communication.
So in ljenkins case, he said he has some /16 subnets with only 50ish computers on that subnet. If he adds a /16 subnet to IPAM and only cares about those 50ish IP Addresses, he only has to add those 50ish IP Addresses to the system. Just because he adds the /16 to the system, he doesn't have to manage the entire subnet. He can remove the IP's he does not care about scanning.
Please let me know if that makes sense and clears up any confusion.
Add me to the list of people upset with the pricing / licensing structure.
We will be passing on this, just as we did with Netflow.
I believe it is outrageous to price over 1000 USD for unlimited IP management.
This product sends ICMP scans!!! 14K USD?!?! Yeah right.
Not many will be buying this with its current structure.
Are times really that tight at SW?
Instead of the absurd 14K, if SW just sold that unlimited package for 1000 USD, I believe Everyone would purchase.
At 14k, I doubt many will.
Here is the link for their pricing. http://www.solarwinds.com/campaigns/IPAM/
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Here's my 2c, we manage the network addressing for the company. We have hundreds of subnets (dealerships, manufacturing, marketing, engineering, etc), we only care to see if that network has been assigned or not. We leave all the host IP's to the local IT guy. I'm still not convinced on how IPAM can help us out, since I haven't been able to mark a subnet as available, is there something like a custom field that I can use?
Yes, you can define custom fields at the IP, Subnet, Supernet and Cateogry level. Let me contact you offline to talk back and forth further on what you are looking to do and where IPAM can help
