Saku Good points. An API or tooling always important. I have experienced that for support and operational groups on-boarding to a Web User Interface is just easier. We are rarely the only users of an IPAM or DCIM. All I added all the other suggestions to my list and think that I might make a table showing some features. On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
I feel like most/all of these make a huge mistake starting as 'i am going to make an IPAM'.
Instead of 'I'm going to make a number allocation system'
IPv4, IPv6, port, vlan, RT, RD, PWID, customer#, endless list of numbers you want to allocate and 90% of the logic is agnostic to the ultimate rendering of the number.
I feel like the right solution would be to start with a general purpose number manager and make all specific numbers plugins, including allowing users to trivially create local plugins for purely local numbers they need to allocate. With a good design plugin to introduce a new number could potentially be just tens of lines of code in the plugin.
Now you could with one call return all numbers that were allocated to support This Subscription.
The 2nd problem is that many of these go with WEBUX first, while I think something like gRPC should be the first class citizen, as you mostly should be using the number manager from other software. Of course webUX or many webUX should exist, but it wouldn't have to be 1st class. Many of us would be happy to use CLI UX to add pools rarely when needed and handle allocation/deallocation through existing provisioning systems.
On Tue, 16 Sept 2025 at 03:03, Andrew Latham via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Regarding the `IP Address support in spreadsheets?` thread I wanted to check to see what is out there and maybe update my list. I have not used all of these, just maintaining a list.
Netbox github.com/netbox-community/netbox
Ralph bad url is ralph.allegro.tech/
IPplan sourceforge.net/projects/iptrack/
Infoblox www.infoblox.com/
GestióIP www.gestioip.net/
PHPIPAM phpipam.net/
6connect www.6connect.com/ipam/
Subnetsmngr Source link missing
Device 42 www.device42.com/
NIPAP spritelink.github.io/NIPAP/
OpenNetAdmin github.com/opennetadmin/ona
This is from: https://lathama.net/Tech/Basics/DCIM#Software_Solutions_for_DCIM_or_IPAM
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