IP Address Management in Cable Environment
The Challenge
- Maintaining visibility of IP Address resources for easy reporting and Regional Internet Registry (RIR) compliance
- Disparate IPAM and DHCP solutions make it difficult to understand the IPv4 address usage needed during the IPv6 transition
- Difficulty in monitoring scope usage for specific services across hundreds of CMTSs over the network
- Inability to obtain a holistic view of where dynamic DHCP scopes are deployed and difficulty in detecting problematic configurations
The Solution
Incognito's Address Commander is a service provider–grade IP Address Management (IPAM) software that integrates out-of-the-box with the BCC DHCP service and can support third party DHCP platforms. It provides customizable reports that can provide specific information such as the pools of CPE leases that are over-used on a specific device. Address Commander integrates with your DHCP servers to capture usage information and perform scope discovery. Customizable alerts help you keep on top of your IP address resources at all times.
- Flexible and extensive Regional Internet Registry reporting and compliance
- Comprehensive IPv6 management
- DHCP scope discovery and usage collection
- Flexible reporting, including customizable report templates
- Customizable alerts
- Automatic DHCP discovery, change detection, and utilization collection
- Fully represent the scopes on all primary and secondary BCC DHCP servers
- Automatically detect problematic configurations and recommend possible solutions
- Provision static addresses directly from the Address Commander interface