IP Address Management & Multi-Vendors DNS/DHCP Engine Management

IPManager™ is a centralized application which that manages IP addresses, naming conventions and DNS & DHCP servers. Our objectives are 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™ brings the capacity to streamline your resources qualifications and consumption; this, with a full control of the data coherency. The high level of IPManager ‘s automation capacities, increases your process administration efficiencies, giving you the possibility to simplify the delegation the 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 enables the configuration of your IP addressing plan and DNS/DHCP services, through a single and unified web interface, and this, within the entire network for an overall coherency control.

IPManager eliminates all risks 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 it increases the availability of your network. It is then possible to change your DHCP and DNS servers’ configurations without any risks of error, ensuring your network performance and availability.

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

Documents and manages the IP addressing plan

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

IPManager streamlines your IP addressing & naming plan by controlling the qualification of the registered data according 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 with all administrative teams.

Multi-vendors DNS & DHCP servers management

The architecture of the network is most 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™ 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 DNS/DHCP SOLIDserver™ appliances.

With IPManager™ it is possible to operate modifications directly on remote DNS and DHCP servers. All modifications are automatically detected by IPManager™ and updated & retrieved in its centralized database. What is more, IPManager™ controls that all associated administration tasks correlated to the detected modifications have been properly executed. If it is not the case IPManager™ will automatically correct the errors to guarantee the application of your administration policies.

Microsoft Active Directory environments

As an answer to the growth of Microsoft services in the companies market, EfficientIP has decided to adapt its products to Microsoft environment. Thus, IPManager manages Microsoft® DNS&DHCP servers and is able to interface with Microsoft Active Directory®. The content of Microsoft® DNS&DHCP servers are automatically imported in IPManager, which authorizes simultaneous modifications with the MMC Microsoft® administration console.

IPManager manages Microsoft® DNS servers that are integrated in Active Directory 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 ensures the conformity of the configurations carried out by the users by checking the entered data and their coherence in your whole network. By implementing IPManager you will avoid IP addressing conflicts such as IP double addressing, subnet overlapping, naming errors or overlapping between DHCP services. Thus, IPManager allows preventing errors of configuration; also it guarantees the integrity and the reliability of your DNS and DHCP servers.

Customization to your requirements

Through full customizable and configurable assistants, IPManager permits to integrate 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 the network operations. Through full customizable and configurable assistants IPManager can easily integrate them and mask the complexity of the processes for the administrators.Thus, complex tasks can be applied automatically such as correlations between IP addressing plan and DNS&DHCP services, PTR management, zone migration or DNS records cloning

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