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The community has spoken: complex spreadsheets and homegrown solutions don't cut it when it comes to managing your IP address space. That's why SolarWinds created two great IP address management products for you to choose from. Read on to see which one is right for your network!
Our new free IP Address Tracker liberates you from the evils of spreadsheets, delivering powerful and simple-to-use features that give you a unified view of your IP address space and that enable you to manage it - all for free!
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Go ahead and toss your spreadsheet into the recycling bin! IP Address Tracker makes it easy to manage your IP address space, enabling you to: |
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- Track an unlimited number of IP addresses for a unified, at-a-glance view of your IP address space
- See which IP addresses are in use - and which are not
- Determine the last time an IP address was used
- Eliminate manual errors, while ensuring that IP addresses are listed in the right place
- Pre-populate key statistics like DNS and response time
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Ditch your spreadsheets and get an easy-to-use, centralized IP address management solution that doesn't break the bank: Orion IP Address Manager (IPAM). The newest module of Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Orion IPAM scans the network for IP address changes and maintains a dynamic list of IP addresses, ensuring that you can say goodbye to downtime caused by IP address conflicts.
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Orion IPAM enables you to plan for network growth, to ensure IP space usage meets corporate standards, and to reduce IP conflicts. Highlights include: |
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- Manage your entire IP infrastructure from an intuitive web console
- Consolidate your IP addresses into a single repository
- Scan your network automatically for IP address changes
- Create, schedule, and share reports on the IP address space percent utilization
- Eliminate IP address conflicts and easily identify non-responsive IP addresses
- Track who changed what and coordinate team access to your IP space with role-based access control
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Our IP address management tools lit up the blogosphere in the last week, with a couple of shout outs from our favorite bloggers. See what they had to say about the newest members of the SolarWinds family with these entertaining reads.
Network Sheriff, a.k.a. Jimmy Ray Pursor, knows how to corral networks out in the Wild West of the LANscape. Last week in his blog post Free is Good! 3 Rocking Tools For Your Laptop, the Network Sheriff put in his two cents on our new free tool:
"Tool 00x01: IP Address Tracker... this is a great first step network profiling tool... It will discover a network via ICMP very fast, sort and place in an exportable spreadsheet format. How fast? I discovered all 78 devices in my /24 network in 37 seconds and I scanned the entire range.... Very nice time saver and a tool that not only helps out in understanding the lay of the LAN but adds to my professional cred." Read More >
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Daryl Hunter knows networks, and luckily he's more than willing to share with the rest of us. In his blog post last week, SolarWinds FREE IP Address Tracker, Daryl provided a step-by-step guide for getting started with IP Address Tracker and had these comments:
"I'm not cheap. I'm not spendy. I look to find the right tool for the right job - keeping an overall stewardship focus on the $$$ spent. So, when good FREE tools come along, I like to share them..." According to Daryl, here are a few highlights that you'll enjoy with our new IP Address Tracker:
- You can have multiple databases, and change those, if you so choose
- Import Subnet information from comma-separated or tab-separated files
- Export Subnet information into comma-separated files
- SNMP Integration to pull relevant MIB data from SNMP-enabled devices
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Want to keep up to date with the latest and greatest resources, tips, and tools for network management? We've consolidated all of this great information into one spot - a What's Hot page that lets you keep your finger on the pulse of what's happening at SolarWinds and in the network management space.
Find valuable resources, including:
- New Free Downloads: check out the new Diagnostic Collection, which makes managing your Cisco® gear and daily diagnostics a snap with 5 must-have tools.
- Most Popular Videos: see the latest Head Geek videos to pick up some quick tips from the guy who knows almost everything about networks.
- Featured Resources: watch recent on-demand webcasts on timely network management topics, download our new Essential Series on network troubleshooting, and more.
Let our Head Geek Josh Stephens teach you a thing or two about troubleshooting with our two-part, on-demand webcast series. We know that you are constantly looking for the best technologies and tools to diagnose and solve network issues. But, identifying the right tool or technology for the job isn't always easy.... And the Head Geek can help.
- Network Troubleshooting, Part 1:
Dive geek-deep into five key network technologies to learn how they work and when to use them. See how you can leverage IP SLA, NetFlow, SNMP, traceroute, packet captures, and more for everyday troubleshooting.
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- Network Troubleshooting, Part 2:
Take a crash course on technologies like Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), Telnet, ICMP, CAM, ARP, and switch port mapping. Plus, pick up tips during an extended Q&A that offers answers to challenging questions that stump even the most expert network engineers.
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Product Tip: Jumpstart Orion IPAM with Engineer's Toolset
We know you'll save tons of time managing your IP address space with Orion IP Address Manager (IPAM). But if you're already using the IP Address Management tool in Engineer's Toolset, you don't have to start from scratch. It's easy to export your IP address information from Engineer's Toolset and import it directly into Orion IPAM.
Here's how to move your information from Toolset to Orion IPAM quickly and easily:
- Locate the Toolset IP Address Manager database on your Toolset server. Note: The Toolset IP Address Manager database has an .ipdb extension.
- Copy the Toolset IP Address Manager database to an appropriate location on your Orion server.
- Open the Command Prompt on your Orion server. Note: Typically, the command prompt may be opened by clicking Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
- Enter CD ‹volume›:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\IPAM.
- Enter NET STOP "SolarWinds IPAM Information Service".
- Enter SolarWinds.IPAM.Init.exe -import ‹Full path to your Toolset IP Address Manager database›.
- Enter NET START "SolarWinds IPAM Information Service".
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Product Reviews
Your fellow network engineers have been busy rating and reviewing SolarWinds products on our website. Here are a few of our favorite comments:
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Engineer's Toolset
"Any network admin worth their salt should already have this in their arsenal. Those that don't, NEED to get it! This toolset has a plethora of tools and utilities to help resolve network issues ranging from the simplest to the complex." - posted by KSCLanMan
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