Question about changing an existing DHCP reservation in IPAM

Question

We are using SolarWinds IPAM, which is tied to our Windows DHCP servers.  Creating new DHCP reservations and removing existing reservations works fine via IPAM.  The changes are immediately reflected in the DHCP server.  However, I noticed that in IPAM it is possible to pull up an existing reservation and make a change to it (like the MAC address) and tell it to replicate that change to the DHCP server. The update will complete with no errors in IPAM, but the change is NOT reflected on the Windows DHCP server.  Is there a way to prevent an IPAM user from making such a change to an existing reservation or, failing that, to at least generate an alert that the update did NOT go through on the DHCP server side?

Thanks,

-Mat Rouch

marcrobinson · Answer

I was just looking at IPAM events that are logged by default - I do not see an event for IPAM update failures. It might show up in the poller's windows event logs, or more likely the IPAM server logs - default location is something like: C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\Logs\IPAM\*

Preventing the users from doing something that is already part of their IPAM role? mmmm probably not possible, not without unintended consequences at least. Changing their role is an option, but that changes everything that they can do.