Another challenger to the IP address management king

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: NETWORK PRODUCT TEST RESULTS
07/26/05

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Today's focus:

Another challenger to the IP address management king

By Barry Nance and Network World Lab Alliance

In our quest to find the world's best IP address management
tool, IPControl 2.0 from International Network Services slipped
under our radar. So we recently subjected IPControl to the same
tests and criteria we used in our May 9 story.

The perfect IP address management tool should flexibly and
efficiently assign IP addresses to all IP devices, centrally
manage the address and URL information across an enterprise,
quickly and effortlessly equate host names with IP addresses,
scale well, be intuitive to use and be pervasively
platform-neutral. The tool also must have useful reports,
integrate with custom-written applications, cooperate with
Active Directory, be LDAP-aware Lightweight Delivery Access
Protocol-aware and deal robustly with badly formed or
non-compliant DHCP requests. The best tool is also highly
fault-tolerant and enforces security to help keep hackers at
bay.

We found IPControl to be less expensive than Lucent's VitalQIP
and MetaInfo's Meta IP, yet just as easy to use. However,
VitalQIP (the May 9 Clear Choice Award winner) is faster, offers
more features and is more scalable.

Organizing your addresses

IPControl did a good job of discovering and cataloging our
network's devices via its queries of router subnets, DHCP
address pools and individual IP addresses. After initially
discovering our IP-based network nodes, IPControl separately
managed actual vs. planned addressing schemes to provide us with
a forward-looking view of our future network as it expanded. We
also liked IPControl's BIND versions 8 and 9 compliance, as well
as integration with Active Directory. IPControl can direct the
operations of Windows Server's DHCP services just as well as it
can its own DHCP server software.

The IPControl platform includes a central InControl Executive,
at least one but possibly several InControl Agents, a central
database and an Administrative Interface. The Executive
application directs the activities of the agents, stores IP
addressing information in the database and accepts interactive
configuration data from the Administrative Interface. The
default database is MySQL (included), but on Solaris you can
substitute your own copy of Oracle's relational database. INS
supplies ISC DHCP software that runs on Red Hat Linux and
Solaris, and BIND software that runs on Windows, Red Hat Linux
and Solaris. IPControl runs on Solaris, Windows (2000, 2003 and
XP) and Red Hat Linux. If you prefer a network appliance, INS
sells IPControl pre-loaded in a rack-mountable device.

To read more about IPControl 2.0 from International Network
Services, please go to:
<http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/071105-ip-test.html>

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To contact:

Nance runs Network Testing Labs and is the author of
Introduction to Networking, 4th Edition and Client/Server LAN
Programming. He can be reached at barryn@erols.com
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Download the Special Report: VoIP: Challenges, Drivers, Hurdles,
and Recommendation

VoIP, poses many questions, among them; vendors vs. carriers,
end-user adoption, management complexity, etc. Once these
questions are answered then the benefits of convergence can be
realized. Through research the following special report VoIP:
Challenges, Drivers, Hurdles, and Recommendation analyzes the
questions and the best practices behind implementing a converged
network.
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