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.
Brandon,
No confusion on my part. Having to add/remove many ranges within many managed subnets diminishes the product.
The pinging part of the application is handy; but we'd be happy to have just a web accessible DB of IP addresses that bolts into our Orion site to replace our spreadsheets.
Perhaps in future releases there could be a license for a manually maintained IPA list and make the ping monitoring a per node purchase.
Here is the link for their pricing. http://www.solarwinds.com/campaigns/IPAM/
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This is more like a 30 minute first Impression.
Overall the product is very good.
It is much easier to use than IPPlan but the licensing is crippling. Our private networks have a 5%-10% ip allocation rate. This is because of network layer separation requirements and many /24 networks for ease of administration. This makes the cost of this application very high.
I may be doing something wrong but selecting "Scan This Subnet Now" puts the subnet at the end of the scan queue. That is not "Now".
A licensing model based on IP addresses that are, reserved, discovered or manually assigned would be much more appealing than all possible addresses in the network.
jkgraham, good feedback. If you do not want to scan the whole subnet, you can delete out the addresses you are not concerned about and they will not be scanned and will not count on the license. See above in thread on that more.
Do you have other scans currently running on the system? If you have other scans going and hit scan now, it will place it next in the queue
There are about 40 networks in the queue. Some of them will stay scanning for hundreeds of minutes. Does this indicate a comm problem?
Seems like something might be off. Can you cancel the running jobs and submit the job again?
