You
can manage individual addresses through the IPAM console as necessary. When you
want to manage an individual address, there are two locations from where this
can be accomplished. In the IP ADDRESS SPACE, you change the current view to IP
Addresses or the IP Address Inventory pane. The management options are
available when you right-click the desired IP address. The context menu
includes three types of operations, Edit, Create, and Delete.
Edit
IP Address
The
Edit IP Address dialog box allows you to add information to an IP address or
change information that was previously configured. You can modify all aspects
of the IP address information.
Create
Operations
There
are three options available for creating records for an IP Address. These
include:
• Create DHCP Reservation. This option
creates a DHCP reservation in the appropriate IP Address Range.
• Create DNS Host Record. This option
creates a DNS record on the appropriate DNS server or servers for the IP
Address Range.
•
Create DNS PTR Record. This option creates a DNS OTR record on the appropriate
DNS server or servers for the IP Address Range.
Delete
Operations
There
are four options available for deleting IP Addresses or the information
associated with them. These include:
• Delete. The delete option will remove
the IP address from the IPAM database. By default, this will remove the DNS
records and DHCP reservations if they exist.
• Delete DHCP Reservation. The option
will remove any DHCP reservations created for the IP address, without removing
the IP address from the IPAM database.
• Delete DNS Host Record. The option
will remove any DNS Host Records for the IP address, without removing the IP
address from the IPAM database.
•
Delete DNS PTR Record. The option will remove any DNS PTR Records for the IP
address, without removing the IP address from the IPAM database.
IPAM Monitoring
The
IPAM address space management feature allows you to efficiently view, monitor,
and manage the IP address space on the network. Address space management
supports IPv4 public and private addresses, and IPv6 global and unicast
addresses. Using the MONITOR AND MANAGE section and the DNS and DHCP, DHCP
Scopes, DNS Zone Monitoring, and Server Groups views, you can view and monitor
health and configuration of all the DNS and DHCP servers that are being managed
by IPAM. IPAM uses scheduled tasks to periodically collect data from managed
servers. You can also retrieve data on demand by using the Retrieve All Server
Data option.
Utilization
Monitoring
Utilization
data is maintained for IP address ranges, IP address blocks, and IP range
groups within IPAM. You can configure thresholds for the percentage of the IP
address space that is utilized, and then use those thresholds to determine under-utilization
and over-utilization.
You
can perform utilization trend building and reporting for IPv4 address ranges,
blocks, and range groups. The utilization trend window allows you to view
trends over time periods such as daily, weekly, monthly, or annually, or you
can view trends over custom date ranges. Utilization data from managed DHCP
scopes is auto-discovered, and you can view this data.
Monitoring
DHCP and DNS
Using
IPAM, you can monitor DHCP and DNS servers from any physical location of the enterprise.
One of the primary benefits of IPAM is its ability to simultaneously manage
multiple DHCP servers or DHCP scopes that are spread across one or more DHCP
servers.
The
IPAM monitoring view allows you to view the status and health of selected sets
of Microsoft DNS and DHCP servers from a single console. IPAM’s monitoring view
displays the basic health of servers and recent configuration events that
occurred on these servers. The monitoring view also allows you to organize the
managed servers into logical sever groups.
For
DHCP servers, the server view allows you to track various server settings,
server options, the number of scopes, and the number of active leases that are
configured on the server. For DNS servers, this view allows you to track all
zones that are configured on the server, along with details of the zone type.
The view also allows you to see the total number of zones that are configured
on the server, and the overall zone health status as derived from the zone
status of individual zones on the server.
DHCP
Server Management
From
the IPAM console, you can manage DHCP servers and perform the following
actions:
• Edit DHCP server properties.
• Edit DHCP server options.
• Create DHCP scopes.
• Configure predefined options and
values.
• Configure the user class across
multiple servers simultaneously.
• Create and edit new and existing user
classes across multiple servers simultaneously.
•
Configure the vendor class across multiple servers simultaneously.
• Start
the management console for a selected DHCP server.
•
Retrieve server data from multiple servers.
DNS
Server Management
You
can start the DNS management console for any managed DNS server from a central
console in the IPAM server. Once you start the DNS management console, you can
retrieve server data from the selected set of servers. The DNS Zone Monitoring
view displays all the forward lookup and reverse lookup zones on all the DNS
servers that IPAM is currently managing. For the forward lookup zones, IPAM
also displays all the servers that are hosting the zone, the aggregate health
of the zone across all these servers, and the zone properties.
The
Event Catalog
The IPAM event
catalog provides a centralized repository for auditing all configuration
changes that are performed on DHCP servers that are managed from a single IPAM
management console. The IPAM configuration events console gathers all of the
configuration events. These configuration event catalogs allows you to view,
query, and generate reports of the consolidated configuration changes, along
with details specific to each record.
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