Reviewer’s
Guide
Free ip address tracker (ipat)
REVIEWER’S GUIDE
CONTENTS
Centralized IPv4 & IPv6 Address Management
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Automatic IPv4 Subnet Discovery2
Active Network Scanning4
IP Address Detail & History Tracking
4
IPv6 Address Management5
IP Address Search6
Active Monitoring & Alerting of IP Usage & Conflicts
7
Flexible Reporting7
IP Conflict Detection
7
Collaborative IP Management Through Role-Based Access
9
Team and Role-Based Permission
9
User Tracking and Event Logs
10
User-Defined Grouping 11
Learn More12
Videos12
Webcasts12
Tech Tips12
White Papers12
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INTRODUCTION
With the increase of IP-enabled devices, today’s corporate networks can be particularly
difficult to manage. Spreadsheets are no longer enough for efficient IP space management.
See how SolarWinds® Free IP Address Tracker (IPAT) can help overcome the downsides of
manual IP address management methods, and help you efficiently manage, track, and control
your IPv4 and IPv6 address space. IPAT offers automated and simplified IP management with:
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Centralized IPv4 and IPv6 address management.
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Active monitoring and alerting of IP usage & conflicts.
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Collaborative IP management through role-based access.
Centralized IPv4 & IPv6 address management
Use IPAT to efficiently manage your IP address blocks without spending valuable time and
effort building and maintaining IP documentation.
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Automate subnet discovery, and scan inventory IP subnets and address blocks.
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Search IP blocks for addresses and status, including user device details.
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Manage IPv6 address blocks.
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View IP address changes from the event log.
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Actively detect IP conflicts.
How can IPAT help?
1. Automatic IPv4 Subnet Discovery: Scan the network to auto-discover subnets.
Create an up-to-date IP address map of your network by directly pulling data from
router configurations and connected machines.
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Automatically or Manually
Detect Adjacent Router For Scan
Provide SNMP credentials for polling devices and discovery settings for autodiscovery.
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2. Active Network Scanning: Perform active network scans to verify IP address
status.
Select a desired IP network in the left panel, and click Scan. You can also click View
subnet scan status to view the status of your subnet scan.
Scan Subnets and View Scan Status
Automatic Scan that
Runs in the Background
The below view shows which IP addresses are used, available, transient, or reserved.
a. Manually set IP status
b. Import IP list from existing spreadsheets
c. Show details about specific IP addresses
Set IP Status Manually
Import from Spreadhsheet
Vendor Name
Used IP Address
3. IP Address Detail & History Tracking: View the IP address details (including userdefined fields), and history. Click the User & Device tab.
Here, you can see user- and device-specific information reported by SolarWinds®
User Device Tracker (UDT), including where the IP address is currently connected,
historical connections, and the user associated with that connection.
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4. IPv6 Address Management: IPAT routinely discovers IPv6 addresses by examining
router tables. Once an IPv6 address is found, IPAT assesses the ongoing operational
status using ICMPv6. It specifies the neighbor routers and IPv6 addresses for
existing subnets in IPAT, and starts managing IPv6 address blocks with automated
discovery. You are able to view data in the same interface as your IPv4 addresses
Use this view to plan for and manage your IPv6 address tasks.
Automatic Scanning & Discovery
IPv6 Addresses with Status
Vendor Details
You can look up a vendor name based on MAC address for both IPv6 and IPv4
addresses.
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Obtain IPv6 address details on IPv6 history and other resources.
5. IP Address Search: Search on any IP address to view status, history, and details.
Search for IP addresses, then click the drop-down menu for the Search in field.
The Search for IP Address resource allows you to search for specific IP addresses
using a range of parameters.
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Active monitoring and alerting of IP usage and conflicts
Use IPAT to detect IP duplications to help avoid network downtime due to IP conflicts.
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Monitor and receive alerts when there is an IP conflict in the network.
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View real-time status of IP address availability and IP address details.
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Determine if an IP address has recently changed by viewing event history.
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Detect and resolve IP conflicts, receive alerts when new vendors enter the network,
and track IP addresses to the user using UDT.
How can IPAT help?
1. Flexible Reporting: Create reports for available IP addresses, reserved addresses,
used addresses, all subnets, IP address histories, and events.
2. IP Conflict Detection: IPAT helps you quickly detect IP conflicts. Integrating IPAT
with UDT helps minimize disruptions to critical network services and applications.
This advanced integration feature, called SolarWinds® IP Control Bundle (IPCB), can
help you:
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Quickly respond to alerts for IP conflicts and other IP-related issues.
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Assess the severity of the IP conflicts.
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Employ troubleshooting strategies with real-time IP address information.
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IPCB helps resolve network issues caused by IP conflicts in two steps:
1. View the new IP Address Conflicts resource to see alerts about IP conflicts in the
network, comprehensive information about the IP address in conflict, the conflict
type, subnet where the conflict occurred, device/device type that caused the
conflict, and the switch/switch port where the devices are connected.
2. Click on the IP address to obtain further details that help analyze the conflict and
determine steps to resolve the problem. View details like recommended action,
associated DHCP scopes, and device details, including Host MAC/IP, User MAC/IP,
Switch port, and MAC/Port (or SSID) history. The view also allows you to do a remote
shutdown of the switch port and take the offending device off the network.
Switch Port Shutdown
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Collaborative IP management through role-based access
IPAT allows each team to manage their own subnets, address blocks, and DHCP and DNS
services without impacting each other. Role-based administration helps streamline user
delegation and reduce downtime due to human errors.
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Grant varying privilege levels and custom roles for enhanced control and security.
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Create and edit role definitions down to the subnet level to restrict user access.
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Define user access roles per subnet, group, or supernet.
How can IPAT help?
1. Team and Role-Based Permission: Secure collaboration using permissioned
access.
Click Add New Account to create user groups with permission, and click Edit to
modify existing permissions.
Add or Edit User Roles and Permissions
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2. User Tracking and Event Logs: Optional integration with UDT to show device-level
detail.
UDT integration with IPAT shows you the users as well as the UDT node and port
associated with that IP address.
UDT User
UDT Port
UDT Node
Vendor Details
To access UDT Subview, check the box next to a Used IP address with UDT
information. Click View Details.
This reveals the IPAT details about this IP address, including the status, history, and
details.
The left panel contains the available sub-views for a particular IP address, including
a view for UDT-specific information.
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3. User-Defined Grouping: Flexible IP address organization by geography, business
unit, function, etc.
SolarWinds® free IPAT can monitor and track up to 254 IP addresses. To get monitoring
support for more IP addresses as well as monitoring and management for DHCP and DNS
servers, activate the free 30-day trial of SolarWinds® IP Address Manager (IPAM). At the end of
30 days, if you wish to switch back to the free IPAT, click on the Switch Back to Limited Free Tool
button on the summary page.
Switch Back to Free IPAT
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Conclusion
If you’re still managing enterprise IP data manually through spreadsheets or other means, it is
time to transition to an automated solution. Be proactive in attending to issues and planning
ahead for IP address provisioning and subnet allocation. IPAT can help you manage daily
challenges such as creating, migrating, or reconfiguring subnets, maintaining high-availability of
DHCP and DNS services, and ensuring reliable operations by monitoring critical resources, and
determining proper forecasting and planning.
Say goodbye to unknown or obsolete data. Deploy SolarWinds® IPAT to consolidate and
centralize your IP address management.
Learn More:
Videos
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Avoid IP Address Conflicts
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Planning Your IPv4 to IPv6 Migration
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IP Address Manager Overview
Webcasts
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Eliminate Network Downtime using DDI Best Practices
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IP Proliferation: How do you seize control for greater security and scalability?
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IP Address Management Best Practices
Tech Tips
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Leveraging Best Practices for SolarWinds IPAM
Whitepapers
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ROI for IPAM Solutions in Small-Mid Sized Enterprise Environments
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Managing the BYOD Chaos
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Modernizing Your IP Management System - Why the Time is Now
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About SolarWinds
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customers worldwide - from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. In all of our market
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complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors.
SolarWinds delivers on this commitment with unexpected simplicity through products that are
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