[159838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Leff)
Wed Jan 23 23:13:53 2013
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From: Adam Leff <adam@leff.co>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:13:39 -0500
To: Blake Gillman <bgillman@godaddy.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 23, 2013, at 14:42, "Blake Gillman" <bgillman@godaddy.com> wrote:
> Hey guys - We too are evaluating 6Connect, moving away from BlueCat Proteu=
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What are some of the reasons you are migrating away from BlueCat's products?=
-Adam
> So far so good on the backend and with automation.
> We start our net ops operational trials tomorrow.
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> Blake
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric A Louie [mailto:elouie@yahoo.com]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:57 AM
> To: James Wininger
> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP
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> Thanks James. We just activated a demo with 6Connect last week. We'll se=
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> it goes.
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> Much appreciated, Eric
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> ________________________________
> From: James Wininger <jwininger@ifncom.net>
> To: Eric A Louie <elouie@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Mon, December 17, 2012 8:56:53 AM
> Subject: Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP
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> Eric,=20
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> We recently migrate away from IPPlan to 6connect. There is significant cos=
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> the application but the end result (IMHO) is well worth it.=20
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> IPPlan was great that is used MySQL, as many of us use that DB, so
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> was easy, but what we were trying to do with the integration on the
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> with IPPlan, 6connect does out of the box.
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> DNS integration, RESTful with ARIN, user access control etc. Not trying to=
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> the product here, just saying that we went through what you are going
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> and if it helps, I wish we had the time back that we put into IPPlan.
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> They have hosted and "local" installs available, but they prefer the hoste=
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> model. We did local install.
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> Jim
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> On Dec 12, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Eric A Louie wrote:
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> I'm looking for IPAM solutions for a small regional wireless ISP. There a=
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>> Tier 2 personnel and 2 NOC technicians who would be using the tool, and a=
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>> staff of engineers.
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>> They have regionalized IP addresses so blocks are local, but there are
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>> that are global.
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>> don't care if it's a linux or windows solution.
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>> Need to be able to migrate from FreeIPdb (yes, I know, it's a dinosaur)
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>> We're not dealing with a lot now, but the potential for growth is pretty
> high.
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>> What are you using and how is it working for you?
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>> Much appreciated, Eric
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