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IPAM - New Super/Subnet Template

With our old IPAM product we were able to create templates that could be applied when assigning a new subnet or supernet.

This allowed specific IP addresses to be marked as reserved with their designated device type predetermined based on the template selected.

In our business this takes the guess work out of which IP address should be assigned for which device.

Example:

Assign new subnet 192.168.1.0/27

Select Template: /27 (or whatever the name happens to be)

New subnet is created with the standard first and last IP being marked as reserved, however because I chose template /27 the following was also performed:

192.168.1.1  - Static - Used - Server IP

192.168.1.5 - Static - Used - WAP

192.168.1.6 -- 192.168.1.26 - DHCP - Server IP will be DHCP server

192.168.1.27 - Static - Used - Camera

192.168.1.28 - Static - Used - Climate

192.168.1.29 - Static - Used - Printer

192.168.1.30 - Static - Used - Gateway

You could then create multiple templates in the same size, or various sizes, that could then be applied to new subnets being defined for deployment.

I hope this makes sense, and that others feel a need for this as well.

  • If the feature is going to be added then I would also suggest to have the flexibility of having tempates which creates pre-defined subnetting in a supernet. For example:

    Using a Class B supernet- 10.10.0.0/16

    Assigning the next available Class C to the template- 10.10.10.0/24

    The templates creates the following:

    10.10.10.0/25 (users)

    10.10.10.128/26 (production servers)

    10.10.10.160/26 (test server)