IPManager SOLIDserver Appliance

IP Address Management in an Appliance

IPManager SOLIDserver is a centralized application that manages IP addresses, naming conventions and DNS & DHCP servers. Our objectives is to provide you with a complete, simple and dynamic solution, which will allow you to carry out all administration of these services, whilst adapting to the technical, human or administrative constraints of your IT installation.

Based on an easy and efficient Web interface IPManager SOLIDserver brings you the capacity to streamline your resource qualifications and consumptions with full control of the data coherency. The high level of IPManager SOLIDserver ‘s automation capacities increases your process administration efficiencies, giving you the possibility to simplify the delegation of administration tasks.

Eases deployments and configurations

The daily management of the IP addresses of a company network requires a user friendly tool, which is both reliable and with a high structuring capacity. IPManager SOLIDserver enables the configuration of your IP addressing plan and DNS/DHCP services, through a single and unified web interface, which exists throughout the entire network for overall coherency control.

IPManager SOLIDserver eliminates all risk of errors, such as subnet overlapping or double IP addresses. Thus, advanced configurations can be easily achieved for the enhancement of the security level and increase in network availability. It is then possible to change your DHCP and DNS servers’ configurations without any risk of error, ensuring your network performance and availability.

IPManager SOLIDserver brings a complete solution not only for identifying and managing your IP resource capacity but also for applying advanced policies according to your specific engineering rules.

Documents and manages the IP addressing plan

The integrity of your IT registered data is  of important value to your company. IPManager SOLIDserver allows the documentation of the addressing plan by associating IP addresses with technical and administrative information of the organization, such as an address name,  aVirtual Area Network (VLAN) number, a geographical location or  number of inventories.

IPManager SOLIDserver streamlines your IP addressing & naming plan by controlling the qualification of the registered data according to tailored rules. Each partition of the addressing plan can have its own rules of documentation and its own methods of organization. It is then possible to ensure a uniform way of work within all administrative teams.

Multi-vendors DNS & DHCP servers management

The architecture of the network is mostly of the time a result of fusions, integrations or the conjunction of independent networks. As a consequence, company growth requires flexibility and adaptability in their management of DNS & DHCP servers.

IPManager SOLIDserver provides a unique user interface that unifies the management of multi-vendors DNS and DHCP servers. This allows the management of different server providers such as Microsoft® DNS&DHCP servers, BIND 9.x, ISC DHCP, Cisco® IOS DHCP servers and EfficientIP’s SOLIDserver appliances.

With IPManager SOLIDserver makes possible to operate modifications directly on remote DNS and DHCP servers. All modifications are automatically detected by IPManager SOLIDserver and updated and retrieved in IPManager SOLIDserver's centralized base. What is more, IPManager SOLIDserver ensures that all associated administration tasks correlated to the detected modifications have been properly executed. IPManager SOLIDserver will not automatically correct the errors to guarantee the application of your administration policies.

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environments

As an answer to the growth of Microsoft services in the companies market, EfficientIP has adapted its products to a Microsoft environment. Thus, IPManager SOLIDserver manages Microsoft® DNS&DHCP servers and is able to interface with Microsoft Active Directory® (AD). The content of Microsoft® DNS&DHCP servers is automatically imported to IPManager SOLIDserver, which authorizes simultaneous modifications with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

IPManager SOLIDserver manages Microsoft® DNS servers that are integrated in ActiveDirectory in a native and non-intrusive way this management is carried out without modifying your DNS architecture and without deploying any management agent.

Configuration consistence checks

IPManager SOLIDserver ensures the conformity of the configurations carried out by the users by checking the entered data and their coherence in your whole networks. By implementing IPManager SOLIDserver you will avoid IP addressing conflicts such as IP double addressing, subnet overlapping, naming errors or overlapping between DHCP services. IPManager SOLIDserver prevents errors of configuration as well as guarantees the integrity and the reliability of your DNS and DHCP servers.

Customization to your requirements

Through fully customizable and configurable assistants, IPManager SOLIDserver integrates the rules of engineering and the exploitation procedures of your organization. This integration masks the complexity of your plan of addressing and its correlations with DNS and DHCP services.

Network administration is based on engineering rules that are defined for optimizing performance and the quality of network operations. Through full customizable and configurable assistants IPManager SOLIDserver can easily integrate them and mask the complexity of the processes for the administrators.

Complex tasks can be applied automatically such as correlations between IP addressing plan, PTR management, zone migration or DNS records cloningand DNS&DHCP services.

The objective is to allow the administrator evolve IPManager SOLIDserver’s user interface and its behavior according to its working methods. The return on investment is direct and really measurable.