To manage your IP infrastructure and monitor your network services, the ability to have an operational access to IP data is fundamental. SOLIDserver™ brings an accurate and immediate access to your data with your search criteria across your entire infrastructure.

• Real time access to your information to track down dynamic or manual resource allocations and service performances to ensure high IT Service Quality
• Transverse access to your information without hierarchical tree dependences for unrestricted data visibility
• Access your information with your own search criteria to match with your operational needs
• History of all administration tasks
• Network devices port allocation for IP addresses, including multiple IP addresses per port and VMWare for a better understanding of IP usage within the company

It is fundamental that companies implement best practices throughout their IPAM organization. The key to success in the deployment of IP resources is that users are aligned with those best practices. By embedding your own IPAM policies in your IPAM solution, you reconcile these objectives in the easiest way. You mask the complexity of IPAM processes and deliver a user-friendly application which guides users through automated IPAM policies enforcement.

• Streamline resource qualification with templates: Simplify resource qualification and deployment with templates of IP objects. Templates guide users through a predefined or user-defined list of fields for each IP object such as IP addresses, subnets, DNS zones or DHCP scopes. SOLIDserver™ performs data formatting checks or can constrain data structure to eliminate qualification errors.

• Organize resource consumption: Control where IP resources (ex: subnets, IP ranges, IP addresses) are authorized to be allocated by users according to your IP plan or the way you organize your rights delegation. For instance, you can restrict where IP objects such as printers, servers and switches can be deployed within subnets.
• Rationalize resource configuration: Define authorized subnet sizes and options of your DNS-DHCP services (such as for VoIP) to control your service deployment policies.
• Automate your naming conventions: Integrate your IP resources naming conventions within SOLIDserver™ to apply them according to IP object types, geographical location, services membership or other user-defined criteria.
• Map IP plan organization to fit your company’s organizational needs: The IP addressing plan is the foundation of the network upon which network services are organized and deployed. It is fundamental to align your IPAM organization with your company organization according to multiple criteria (geographical, technical, commercial or administrative).

• Manage DNS-DHCP services at the architecture level: SmartArchitecture™ simplifies the deployment and the management of your DNS-DHCP services by managing not only your servers but the entire service architecture. Any SOLIDserver™ part of a SmartArchitecture™ will be automatically configured as well as various servers from other vendors to establish a communication path among all of them, securing communication flow and synchronizing data.
• Automate IPAM-DNS-DHCP administration tasks: SOLIDserver™ ensures a dynamic and integrated management of IPAM with DNS and DHCP services in a single process, insuring the highest level of quality and efficiency. For instance, it is possible to create a /24 subnet, with IP ranges allocated to DHCP service in one single operation. All configurations will be carried out automatically by SOLIDserver™ and will configure DNS and DHCP services according to specified options.
• Multi-Vendor DNS-DHCP services Management: SOLIDserver™ unifies the management of multi-vendors DNS and DHCP servers (Microsoft®, Open Source, Cisco® and Nominum®) on a single IPAM solution to simplify service deployment, increase quality and cut operating costs.
• Mass reconfiguration: SOLIDserver™ eliminates hierarchical arborescence dependencies which limit the management of a network on a branch-by-branch and server-by-server basis. It is possible to browse, select and manage specific DHCP scopes dedicated to VoIP on several DHCP servers simultaneously and change specific options, or change a TTL of selected resource records across all DNS zones and NS.
• Simplify your migration processes: SOLIDserver™ enables you to migrate IP resources from the existing IP plan to the new IP plan. IP addresses, subnets or DNS-DHCP services can be re-organized directly from the GUI to move or copy selected resources. Migration status monitors the process and control stages of progression.

• Ensure global data consistency: SOLIDservers™ control the overall consistency of server configurations and IPAM data in order to eliminate all risks of conflicting configurations, duplicate IP addresses or subnet overlaps.
• Resolve conflicts between the IPAM repository and network reality: Ongoing IP live audits discover IP address usage and connections (switch/slot/port/VLAN) within the network and can be compared to the IP repository. Advanced network discovery reports show conflicts than can be corrected.
• Discover unauthorized devices on the network: Unexpected devices connected to the network could be a security risk. SOLIDserver™ detects and reports unknown MAC or IP addresses with accurate information to locate them on the network (switch name, slot/port number, device name, vlan number).
• Reclaim unused IP addresses: The network discovery process can identify unused IP and MAC addresses during any lapse of time. Based on this information it is easy to determine whether IP addresses can be released or reallocated.
• Reclaim unused ports: Identify any unused switch ports during any lapse of time to easily determine whether a switch port can be released or reallocated. This is particularly important in the context of datacenters in order to avoid an overconsumption of Giga Ethernet ports to unused servers.
• Be “Glocal”, Plan delegation and Work Flow according to the Global company organization and act local: Structure the delegation of the administration in an accurate and methodic way, according to your organizational context to bring users' responsibilities in line with rights delegation. There are no more hierarchical arborescence dependences forcing you to delegate the administration network branch by branch and server by server. A printer administrative group can be given access only to IP ranges dedicated to printer object across all or a selection of subnets.
• Built-in Work Flow: built-in work flow capabilities to manage the life cycle of your resource requests between your administration teams.
  • Streamline request qualification with user-defined forms
  • Unify IPAM processes and synchronize activities
  • Advanced status management and follow-up (new, handled, cancelled, rejected, in progress)
  • History of all requests with Email exchanges archiving