Progress WhatsUp Gold IP Address Manager
Automates the Discovery, Documentation and Management of Your IP Space

Overview:

Why do organizations need IP Address Management (IPAM)?

The proliferation of IP telephones, mobile computers, and virtual machines has made the planning, allocating and managing of IP addresses more complex and critical. A mismanaged IP space can cause network outages, increase troubleshooting time, or cripple an otherwise healthy network. Enterprise-ready IPAM products simplify IP address management by automating previously manual tasks and provide visibility into IP utilization, duplicate IP Addresses and enable the correlation of IP addresses to devices historically. WhatsUp IP Address Manager relieves the risk factors from the Network Administrator by automating the tedious tasks associated with IP address management.

Introducing WhatsUp IP Address Manager

WhatsUp IP Address Manager is an enterprise-ready IP Address Management solution. WhatsUp IP Address Manager automates the discovery, documentation and management of your IP space and provides visibility into DHCP/DNS server configurations, IP Address utilization across subnets and device-to-IP Address associations.

WhatsUp IP Address Manager stops the chaos of manually managing your IP space with error-prone spreadsheets and unreliable home-grown databases.

WhatsUp IP Address Manager – What it can do for you

• Inventory your entire address space –error-free– with automated scanning
• Identify IP address duplicates across subnets
• Make historical IP address to device associations effortlessly
• Get up-to-date visibility into IP address utilization
• Easily locate an IP address utilizing any of its attributes
• Categorize and report on devices by type automatically
• Discover subnet allocations and IP address assignments as they currently exist
• Gain visibility into Microsoft DHCP and Cisco IOS DHCP servers from a single tool
• Determine root cause of IP space problems utilizing and integrated toolset
• Identify forgotten DHCP servers

Features:

Conflict Prevention

WhatsUp IP Address Manager helps to reduce IP Address conflicts by giving you up-to-date visibility into your IP space. IP Address conflicts can cripple an otherwise healthy network. Being able to discern appropriate duplicate IP Addresses from misconfigurations is a critical facet of maintaining a healthy IP space.

Scheduled Scanning

Management of your IP space begins with visibility. Visibility is achieved through comprehensive discovery. WhatsUp IP Address Manager enables you to schedule the recurring discovery your subnets on a timetable that gives you the visibility you need to mitigate IP related risks.

Reporting

WhatsUp IP Address Manager pairs its robust scanning capabilities with powerful out-of-the-box reporting. Effortlessly generate reports and easily share them with your team. Visibility into Available IP Addresses, Managed IP Addresses, IP History, and DHCP leases supports a cohesive and well executed IP space management strategy.

Historical Tracking

WhatsUp IP Address Manager enables you to historically correlate IP addresses with devices to see how certain properties have changed over time. Historical Tracking of an IP Address is only a right-click away.

Subnet Calculator

Organize your IP space into optimally sized subnets with the built-in Subnet Calculator. Enter your superset and subnet size and the Subnet Calculator will generate the right-sized subnet options for your network.

Alerting

Guard against downtime with proactive alerting. Get alerts on IP space issues such as IP Address status changes and subnet utilization exceeding a specified threshold before uptime and end users are negatively impacted.

Standalone Application

WhatsUp IP Address Manager is available as a standalone application. Unlike some standalone IPAM products that offer essential capabilities from separate applications (e.g. scheduling tasks and reporting), WhatsUp IP Address Manager integrates them. There’s no need to step out of the product, configure a task, then step back into the product to implement it. WhatsUp IP Address Manager is self-contained, easy to setup and easy to use from day one.

System Requirements:

Operating system requirements

IP Address Manager runs on several 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. The following is a list of the Windows operating system and release requirements for IP Address Manager:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit) or higher
• Database: SQL Server Express 2008 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit) or higher

Framework requirements

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Extended/Full version is required. You must install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Extended/Full version before installing IP Address Manager. Find the most recent version of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Extended/Full version to download on the Micosoft website.

	Recommended	Required
Processor(s)	Dual-core	Single-core
Processor speed	2 GHz or more	2 GHz
RAM	4 GB	2 GB
Hard drive space for application	100 MB	80 MB
Network interface card	1 Gbps	100 Mbps
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM	Required if installing from CD-ROM. Not required for download installations.	Required if installing from CD-ROM. Not required for download installations.
Video display resolution	1280 x 1024 or higher	1024 x 768

FAQ:

How is WhatsUp Address Manager licensed?

WhatsUp IP Address Manager licensing is based on the number managed IP addresses. You only pay for what you manage. For example, if your network has 5500 total IP addresses and you only manage 3500 IP addresses then the WhatsUp IP Address Manager 4096 level is right for you. Four licensing tiers are available.

• WhatsUp IP Address Manager 1024
• WhatsUp IP Address Manager 4096
• WhatsUp IP Address Manager 16384
• WhatsUp IP Address Manager Unlimited

Is WhatsUp IP Address Manager standalone?

Yes, WhatsUp IP Address Manager is a standalone application and does not require WhatsUp Gold. If you have an existing installation of WhatsUp Gold, you can import your existing credentials into WhatsUp IP Address Manager.

Is IPv6 supported by WhatsUp IP Address Manager?

WhatsUp IP Address Manager will communicate with any device via the IPv4 interface to automatically discover dual stack IPv4/IPv6 devices in your network. With WhatsUp IP Address Manager you can easily discover, track, manage and document your IPv4-IPv6 space.

Why should I invest in a dedicated IPAM solution?

Discovering, tracking and documenting IP addresses manually across subnets is time consuming and full of opportunities to make mistakes. Manual IP space management makes correlating IP address assignments and devices difficult and nearly impossible when looking further back in time. What other mission critical aspect of your network do you trust to an error-prone spreadsheet or unreliable home-grown solution?

Where do I go to trade best practices, troubleshooting tips-and-tricks, and –best of all – submit ideas for features I want to see in the next version of WhatsUp IP Address Manager?

Go to WUGspace to connect with like-minded professionals on IPAM specifically or share best practices and trouble-shooting tips on a wide variety of network management topics.

Documentation:

Download the Progress WhatsUp Gold IP Address Manager Datasheet (.PDF)