What is everyone using for subdelegating IPv4 space internally - looking for an *ease of use* tool - something that would require low maintenance and can be delegated to entry-level NOC staff... Please respond privately... -- Rich Sena - ras@thick.net ThickNET Consulting "On the way to understanding; you understand, and forget."
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:24:29AM -0500, Rich Sena wrote:
What is everyone using for subdelegating IPv4 space internally - looking for an *ease of use* tool - something that would require low maintenance and can be delegated to entry-level NOC staff...
The RIPE LIR wg discussed the development of such a tool some months back (+ at a recent tools BoF + on the RIPE ipmt-dev mailing list) and silence since, until the following recent post: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:41:51AM -0700, David R Huberman wrote:
Hello,
As discussed last month on this list, Global Crossing uses a powerful suite of tools, called IPdb, to manage its address space, address space assignments, and RIR requirements for both IPv4 and IPv6.
Version 1.0 of FreeIPdb will be released next week as open source.
I will post all the pertinent details in the coming days.
/david
I would be cautious about handing your address-space management to entry-level staff. It is more than a trivial bookkeeping function. Institute an auditing/sanity-check process. There's always QIP ($), if that suits your needs. Joshua
At 12:45 AM +0000 4/11/01, Joshua Goodall wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:24:29AM -0500, Rich Sena wrote:
What is everyone using for subdelegating IPv4 space internally - looking for an *ease of use* tool - something that would require low maintenance and can be delegated to entry-level NOC staff...
I would be cautious about handing your address-space management to entry-level staff. It is more than a trivial bookkeeping function. Institute an auditing/sanity-check process.
I agree. It is not all that difficult to build such a system but making sure the people using it properly understand what information they need from the customer to ensure that the assignment is properly justified is another matter. I don't think this is a task for entry level NOC staff where churn might be high and understanding low. They are probably also not that good at telling the customer no, they are more interested in the customer going away (happy). Mark. --
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