Overview of IPAM/DCIM tools - July 2016

ipam-tools.md

IPAM and CMDB software

IPAM

• HaCi http://haci.larsux.de/ - 2015-03

  • IPAM only, v4/v6, multiple POPs, uses templates, space visualization

• GestioIP https://www.gestioip.net/ - 2019-10

  • IPAM w/ VLAN management, subnet disco. via SNMP, space visualization
  • BIND zone file gnerator fwd/ptr
  • Integration OCS Inventory NG

• TeemIP - http://www.combodo.com/teemip-194 2019-09, part of iTop or alone

  • request management w/portal systen for requestors
  • DNS
  • extensible

• Subnetsmgt http://sourceforge.net/projects/subnetsmngr/ - 2013-05

  • IPAM
  • PowerDNS integration

• phpIPAM - http://phpipam.net - 2016-02

  VLAN, VRF, visualization, RIPE, host scanning, etc... IP request form

• netmagis - http://netmagis.org - 2015-09

  Split DNS support DHCP/DNS integration VLAN maanagement Generate traffic graphs

• NSOT - Network Source of Truth - https://github.com/dropbox/nsot - 2017-03

  (not tested) IPAM Inventory DB

Inventory management / CMDB (possibly including IPAM)

• netbox https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox - 2019-11 - active

  • project from DigitalOcean
  • Current

• iTop https://wiki.openitop.org/doku.php - 2014 (w/updates 2016)

  • Modular CMDB
  • Modules like TeemIP

• Netdot - https://osl.uoregon.edu/redmine/projects/netdot - 2015-01

  • great for campus networks
  • no overlapping IP/VLAN support - yet!
  • no VRF support
  • great integration to third party tools
  • actively maintained

• Racktables - http://racktables.org/ - 2016-02 - active

  • Rack/DC specific (objects / IP / vlan / asset tags)
  • no built-in DNS integration

• glpi - http://www.glpi-project.org - 2016-04 - active

  • Full fledged asset/inventory management
  • Modular, including Puppet integration
  • ITILish

• OCS inventory-ng

  • Inventory / deployment
  • Integrates with GLPI
  • Lots of typos on website...
  • Download requires filling out a form, but it's on github

• Ralph 3 - http://allegro.tech/ralph/ - 2016 - active

  • rack/asset mgmt
  • rack visualization
  • review http://blog.admin-linux.org/pilotage/ralph-systeme-de-gestion-d-actifs-pour-datacenter-cmdb-dcim

• OpenDCIM - http://www.opendcim.org/ -

  • DC physical inventory
  • multi site support
  • calculate center of gravity for rack (!)
  • PDU integration

• opennetadmin http://opennetadmin.com - 2016-03 - active

  • modular
  • support for hooks/host actions
  • config. backup
  • VLAN, etc.
  • CLI for interacting with system
  • DNS view support

• nocproject - https://kb.nocproject.org/display/SITE/NOC - 2015-05 / active

  • this thing is in another class - it does everything, from configuration management to outage planning to inventory, provisioning, etc... 50 vendors+ supported

  • around for some years, written by Russians with some documentation in English, and even more in Russian

  • 120 people on the Telegram chat room!

  • for the new version, they built a deployment system called "Tower" just to manage Noc installations, based around ansible:

  https://bitbucket.org/nocproject/noc-tower

• cmbuild http://www.cmdbuild.org/en/prodotti/cmdbuild - 2016-06 / active

  • this is a toolkit for building your own ITIL compliant CMDB
  • probably overkill for anyone

Others:

• tipp - https://github.com/tobez/tipp - 2014

  • IPAM and only IPAM
  • In production for some years

• ipplan (iptrack) http://iptrack.sourceforge.net/ - 2010

  • dead ?
  • v6 support added later

• NIPAP https://spritelink.github.io/NIPAP/

• Snipe-IT https://snipeitapp.com/

doc source: https://gist.github.com/regnauld/63866f968d6cf55f29845a6d896b5b65