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SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)

SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) is a broad IP address management (IPAM) solution that offers consolidated management and monitoring of all organisation’s IP addresses, subnets, as well as DHCP/DNS services from a single, easy-to-use web console. SolarWinds IPAM includes functionality for automating IP address management, simplifying network management, and improving overall operational efficiency, saving IT administrators’ valuable time and efforts.

SolarWinds IP Address Manager software gives the capability to prevent IP conflicts with powerful IPv6 and IPv4 address management. This system also as an option, integrates with other SolarWinds tools, including SAM, UDT and NPM. It can delegate IP administration to systems and networks utilising role-based access. An also can stop issues by monitoring and receiving alerts about IP conflicts and scope/subnet depletion. Other benefits include managing a variety of servers, from BIND DNS servers to Cisco and Microsoft servers, as well as saving time reclaiming or provisioning IP addresses with DNS and DHCP integration.

Features

IP Address Scanner

Avoid human errors and prevent network issues

SolarWinds® IPAM provides you with detailed real-time IP address status reports to help you head off common network connectivity and security issues. If your IP records aren’t up to date, it’s possible for an IP address to be reassigned, resulting in a duplicate IP address assignment.

Another common error occurs when an admin sends an unanswered ping request and assumes the address is available, even though the lack of a response could be due to a temporary problem or offline system. Only an automated IP scanner tool can offer the insights you need for effective IP management.

Perform scans to receive up-to-date insights

Don’t lose track of IP address health across your network. SolarWinds IP Address Manager helps you stay on top of dynamic network changes and IP status. You can automatically conduct periodic IP scans, whether every 10 minutes or once per week.

Use IP scans to build and maintain documentation of your IP address blocks and gain historical insights into network health. Gather IP data and relevant hostname details using IPAM’s periodic ICMP. Leverage information provided by the SNMP polling feature—including MAC addresses and system info—to view performance stats and topology.

Manage IPv4 and IPv6 from a single platform

The IPAM network scanner makes it possible to integrate the management of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses into a single interface. IPAM will automatically discover IPv4 addresses, while IPv6 discovery uses the neighborhood discovery protocol (NDP).

You can use the step-by-step wizard to create an IPv6 global prefix or subnet, allowing you to organize and assign IPv6 addresses. You can then enable an automatic IP network scanner for both IPv4 and IPv6 address blocks to provide insights about the IP address status, MAC address, system name and description, or vendor details.

Create and scan network subnets

Subnets are smaller, typically more efficient network segments admins create within a larger business network. With SolarWinds IP Address Manager as your subnet scanner, it’s easy to create subnets and hierarchies using the Subnet Allocation Wizard, then schedule and perform automated IP address scans across your network subnets.

You can use the IPAM interface to search across all your subnets, a group of subnets, or within a specific subnetwork. Admins can configure new scans or edit existing subnet scans within the Manage Subnets & IP Addresses screen. It’s easy to set the subnet scanner interval to any frequency between every 10 minutes and every seven days.

Easily search a range of IP addresses

Using an IP range scanner, admins can set a specified range of addresses to automatically discover active IP addresses within that range. This can be especially useful within large subnets. IPAM helps admins detect used devices through Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) ping sweeps. With this feature, admins can quickly search for a defined range of IP addresses across managed nodes and poll devices for response time, status, and availability.

IPAM offers control over IP range scanning—admins can use Orion® Polling Settings to set schedules separately for nodes, interfaces, and volumes.

Automatically scan the entire network

If you rely on spreadsheets or other insufficient tools, scanning an entire network for IP addresses and issues can eat up valuable time. Leveraging IPAM as your IP network scanner enables you to scan your entire network automatically on an ongoing basis. Use IPAM to monitor and manage DHCP servers, DNS servers, and IP addresses from a single interface.

IPAM also allows you to manage your Infoblox environment, VMware, and cloud resources, and allows you to scan your network while leveraging user-defined fields like asset tag and serial number to facilitate precise network device management.

Quickly find and add network IP addresses

Using IPAM as your network IP finder makes it easy to gain oversight over the connectivity and functionality of your business network. You have several options for finding network devices—for instance, you can use the Orion Platform to discover and add new devices or add nodes through querying your Active Directory Domain Controller. It’s also possible to import a spreadsheet of IP addresses and subnets. Once your network is configured, you can easily search managed IP addresses to discover current information.

IP Address Tracker

Automatically discover and track IP addresses

SolarWinds® IPAM IP address tracker software automatically discovers your network’s IPv4 addresses and allows you to create IPv6 subnets using a step-by-step wizard. By regularly scanning IP addresses within managed subnets using ICMP, SNMP, and neighborhood scanning, IPAM records and maintains changes in MAC addresses, hostnames, and status (reserved, transient, in use, and available). This automated IP address tracking feature provides this recorded information for any IP address for a specified timeframe. The tracker also includes a timestamp admins can leverage to perform effective network troubleshooting.

View real-time and historical usage data

Accessing detailed device information can help admins quickly analyze and resolve issues. Use SolarWinds IP address tracker to identify current conflicts, see which device had the IP address first, and change the IP of the other device in conflict. Viewing past and current IP address and subnet stats helps you more effectively allocate network resources moving forward. Using IP tracker software also helps you reduce troubleshooting time and minimize network downtime while providing quality service and lowering costs.

Stay on top of IP resources with proactive alerting tools

The alerting tools in IPAM are built to enable you to catch IP-related problems as soon as they occur. SolarWinds IP tracker software can allow you to easily monitor a variety of IP resources and events, including utilization, IP conflicts, and MAC address changes. Receive notifications about DHCP and subnets to catch address pool depletion, DNS forward and reverse record mismatch errors, and more. Admins can configure custom IPAM alerts based on simple conditions within the advanced Orion® Alert Manager. Set email notifications to include specific alert details so you can understand and address the issue quickly.

Track IP addresses within and across subnets

Creating subnets is a necessary and effective way to manage your network but can make it tricky to manage IP addresses. SolarWinds IP Address Manager offers a step-by-step Subnet Allocation wizard designed to help you organize your managed IP address space into subnets. You can then easily track IP addresses within a single subnet, multiple subnets, or across your entire network. Subnets provide a useful way to organize IP addresses, including IPv6 addresses. For instance, you can use IPAM to designate subnet hierarchy groups to help prevent IP conflicts.

IP Address Discovery

Use an IP discovery tool to automatically locate devices and collect critical data

SolarWinds® IP Address Manager (IPAM) is designed to eliminate the need to manually manage IP address data with complicated spreadsheets. By quickly identifying and updating device information, an automated IP address discovery tool can help make IP discovery quicker and a more accurate process.

SolarWinds IPAM is built to scan your network for all IP addresses, checks their statuses, and reports the details. IP Address Manager also uses automated subnet discovery and neighbor discovery techniques to help identify and accurately manage IP subnets, address blocks, and connected hosts to present real-time IP address information.

Reduce the chance of human error when updating device data

Especially for large networks, manually updating device data can run a high risk of human error.

An automated discovery process helps ensure the IP discovery process won’t be subject to any of the unnecessary risks associated with manual data collection. IP Address Manager uses Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and neighbor discovery to automatically locate devices and collect comprehensive device details.

Save time in managing heterogeneous devices

SolarWinds IP Address Manager is built to locate multiple systems in your network to identify and establish connections with appropriate resources to collect critical data. IPAM is ideal for hybrid environments containing heterogeneous, multi-vendor devices. Instead of replacing your multi-vendor DNS and DHCP servers, IPAM can provide network IP discovery designed to save both time and resources.
Automate subnet discovery with an IP detection tool

SolarWinds IPAM offers an Automated Subnet Discovery wizard for you to discover routers and easily poll them for subnets using related IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

If you wish to use the wizard to scan unmonitored routers, you can manually add routers to your discovery scan. The discovery wizard will then import your subnet configurations into your IPAM settings, which can help you avoid the time-consuming process of manually importing subnets from spreadsheets.

Monitor and Troubleshoot DNS records in hybrid environments

Monitor cloud DNS zones and records

Monitor your Amazon and Azure DNS records from a single pane of glass without having to login to separate management consoles. You can also monitor multiple Amazon or Azure cloud accounts. IPAM’s interface is searchable, and can be filtered based on record type.

Monitor and manage Microsoft and BIND DNS services

Centrally monitor and manage Microsoft and BIND DNS services, including the ability to create, edit, or remove DNS zones and records. All DNS changes you make in IPAM are seamlessly propagated to the respective servers. IPAM will also automatically detect DNS forward and reverse record mismatches, and the creation of DNS/PTR records when registering new devices into DNS zones.

Generate custom DNS record reports

IP Address Manager can generate automated custom DNS record reports, which can be scheduled to automatically run to help you track changes to records.

Monitor applications in your hybrid cloud environment with SAM

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) provides end-to-end visibility of your business-critical applications running on private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. This includes automated alerts for application failures. Since SAM and IPAM are both part of the Orion® Platform, you can quickly access DNS records to verify if broken or missing records are the cause without having to login to another console.

Get Infoblox DNS and DHCP Views

Reporting and alerting

Reporting and alerting is included with IP Address Manager Infoblox support and leverages the intuitive, easy-to-use Orion® Platform. The ability to alert on scopes and subnets that are approaching capacity helps keep admins ahead of performance issues. Out-of-the-box Infoblox reporting tracks subnet utilization to help with capacity planning.

Intuitive, easy-to-use, modern user interface

Save time viewing Infoblox network views by having all routing domains displayed in a single, unified view. Quickly identify conflicting IP addresses as well as DNS forward and reverse mismatches to reduce connectivity issues and network downtime.

Centralized visibility and management

Admins can avoid “swivel chair” monitoring of multi-vendor DNS and DHCP environments with a centralized management console. The integrated and unified view also provides valuable resources to track IP address usage, including top 10 DHCP subnet/scopes by utilization, IP address conflicts, and DNS records mismatches.

Benefits

Automated IPv4 and IPv6 Address Scanning

IPAM is designed so you can easily set up scheduled, automatic scanning for both your IPv4 and IPv6 address space. This can reduce manual errors and help ensure that your network’s IP address information is always up to date.

Integrated IP, DHCP, and DNS Management

Admins can quickly find available addresses and easily configure them on DHCP and DNS systems.

Multi-Vendor DHCP and DNS Services

Admins can save time by managing Microsoft® ,Cisco® , and ISC open source DHCP servers, as well as your BIND and Microsoft DNS servers, from a single management console.

Cloud DNS Monitoring

Be able to monitor both your Amazon Web Services™ (AWS® ) Route 53™, and Azure® DNS zones and records from a centralized console. This can enable the immediate troubleshooting of broken or missing DNS records in hybrid environments.

Infoblox® Monitoring

IP Address Manager can monitor your Infoblox DHCP and DNS resources, allowing you to view all subnets, DNS zones, and DHCP scopes in one place. Be able to surface DNS mismatches and IP address conflicts on the main dashboard.

IP Request Wizard

Gain the ability to automatically make reservations or enable users to request IP addresses utilizing the built-in IP request wizard to help speed up the deployment of devices.

vRO Integration

Automate IP address provisioning and update DNS records to help remove error-prone manual workflows. Automating these tasks can help enable virtual environments to scale dynamically.

API Support

IPAM can offer API support with CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations to help enable two-way
integration with third-party software, including automation, orchestration, inventory.

New features and improvements in IPAM

Release date: November 5, 2019

IPAM 2019.4 is an Orion Platform product and uses Orion Platform 2019.4.

IPAM 2019.4 includes the following features:

Advanced Import/Export functionality

  • Import and export structure of subnets, supernets, groups, etc.
  • Import and export IPv6 addresses
  • Improved selection processes for import and export
  • See Import IP Addresses and Export Subnets in the IPAM 2019.4 Administrator Guide for further information.

Miscellaneous improvements

  • New version of vRO package
    • Execution of vRA actions no longer duplicates REST hosts, by reusing existing host instead
    • All types of Orion Custom Properties creation supported
    • Package no longer logs sensitive information during execution
  • Improved subnet discovery for F5 devices

New features and improvements in Orion Platform 2019.4

Release Date: November 5, 2019

Removal of SWIS v2 schema

With this release, SolarWinds IPAM no longer supports the SWIS v2 schema, and the SWIS v3 schema is used instead. The IPAM.AttrDefine and IPAM.Conflict entities now have different structures as shown below:

IPAM.AttrDefine

SWIS v3

<entity name=”IPAM.AttrDefine” base=”System.Entity”>
<property name=”TargetTable” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”Name” type=”System.String” />
<verb name=”AddCustomProperty” method=”AddCustomProperty” codebehind=”SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.IPAM.V3.Verbs.CustomPropertyManagement, SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.IPAM.v3″></verb>
<verb name=”UpdateCustomProperty” method=”UpdateCustomProperty” codebehind=”SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.IPAM.V3.Verbs.CustomPropertyManagement, SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.IPAM.v3″></verb>
<verb name=”DeleteCustomProperty” method=”DeleteCustomProperty” codebehind=”SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.IPAM.V3.Verbs.CustomPropertyManagement, SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.IPAM.v3″></verb>
</entity>

SWIS v2

<entity name=”IPAM.AttrDefine” base=”System.Entity”>
<property name=”AttrId” type=”System.Int32″ key=”True” />
<property name=”AttributeTypeID” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”ColumnName” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”DisplayName” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”LinkTitle” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”DisplayOrder” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”Description” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ValueRtType” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ValueDbType” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ValueConstraint” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”TableParticipants” type=”System.String” />
</entity>

IPAM.Conflict

SWIS v3

<entity name=”IPAM.Conflict” base=”System.Entity” >
<property name=”ConflictId” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”IPNodeID” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”IPAddress” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”IPAddressN” type=”System.Guid” />
<property name=”SubnetId” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”ConflictType” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”ConflictTimeUTC” type=”System.DateTime” />
<property name=”ConflictStatus” type=”System.Byte” />
<property name=”AssignedMac” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”AssignedRawMac” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”AssignedSourceType” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”AssignedSourceText” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ConflictingMac” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ConflictingRawMac” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ConflictingSourceType” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”ConflictingSourceText” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ConflictTypeText” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ConflictTypeIcon” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”AssignMACVendIcon” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”ConflictMACVendIcon” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”SubnetAddress” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”GroupType” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”SubnetStatus” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”IPStatus” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”SubnetAddressN” type=”System.Guid” />
<property name=”AccountID” type=”System.String” />
<property name=”Role” type=”System.String” />
</entity>

SWIS v2

<entity name=”IPAM.Conflict” base=”System.Entity”>

<property name=”ConflictId” type=”System.Int32″ key=”True” />

<property name=”ObjectId” type=”System.Int32″ />

<property name=”Time” type=”System.DateTime” />

<property name=”UserName” type=”System.String” />

<property name=”Type” type=”System.Int32″ />

<property name=”IPAddress” type=”System.String” />

<property name=”IPAddressN” type=”System.Guid” />

<property name=”Description” type=”System.String” />

<property name=”DeletedOn” type=”System.DateTime” />

</entity>

<entity name=”IPAM.ConflictData” base=”System.Entity”>
<property name=”ConflictId” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”DataBy” type=”System.Int32″ />
<property name=”Data” type=”System.String” />
</entity>

Software requirements

The following table lists software requirements and recommendations for a SolarWinds installation on both physical and virtual computers.

Software Requirements
Operating system
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019

Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10, 64-bit (not Standard Edition), are supported for evaluation environments only. To make a smooth transition from your evaluation to production deployment, SolarWinds recommends that you avoid installing evaluations on desktop operating systems.

Support differences between Orion Agents and Orion Platform products

  • You cannot install Orion Platform products on domain controllers.
    Exception: You can install Orion Agents on domain controllers.
  • You cannot install Orion Platform products or any scalability engines on Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, or BlackBerry servers.
    Exception
    : You can install Orion Agents on the same server as a Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange or Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry server.
Operating system languages
  • English (UK or US)
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Simplified Chinese
IP address version IPv4

IPv6

Dual stack

CIDR notation is not supported for IPv6 addresses.

Web server If you are not using Windows Authentication, make sure the Anonymous Authentication is enabled for the SolarWinds NetPerfMon website. Anonymous Authentication is used with the default forms-based authentication.

IIS is installed by the SolarWinds installer. You can install this software manually to reduce your installation time.

.NET Framework .NET 4.8 or later

Run the same version of. NET on your primary server and any Additional Polling Engines or Additional Web Servers in the environment.

.NET 4.8 is not compatible with the following Windows versions:

  • Windows Server version 1709
  • Windows 10, version 10.0.10240

If you are running Orion Platform products on the systems, consider upgrading your environment to be able to use the new features provided by Orion Platform 2019.4.

Services If you are using the Syslog or SNMP Traps feature of the Orion Platform, make sure the following services are running after installation is complete to collect syslog messages and traps:

  • SolarWinds Syslog Service
  • SolarWinds Trap Service
Web console browser Orion Platform products support two most recent versions of the following web browsers available at the release date:

  • Firefox
  • Chrome

Orion Platform products also support the following browsers:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 with Active scripting

    Do not enable Enterprise Mode on Internet Explorer. This setting forces Internet Explorer to emulate version 7, which is not supported.
    IPAM 2019.4 does not full support Microsoft Edge.

Compatibility with other software

IPAM (and other Orion Platform products) cannot be installed on the same server as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager

Account privileges

SolarWinds recommends that SolarWinds Orion administrators have local administrator privileges on the Orion server to ensure full functionality of local SolarWinds tools.

SolarWinds Orion user accounts limited to the Orion Web Console do not require local administrator privileges.

Server port requirements

RPC ports > 1024 (TCP, bidirectional) are used by the Job Engine v2 process to communicate with Windows nodes.

Port Protocol Direction Description Encryption
53 TCP Used for zone transfers, DNS record polling
161 UDP bidirectional Statistics collection
17777 TCP bidirectional Orion module traffic. Open the port to enable communication from your poller to the Orion Web Console, and from the Orion Web Console to your poller.

High Availability Service. Used for communication between the main server and pool members.

Job Engine V2, Collector Service, Business Layer, and Information Service v2,23. Used for communication between the services.

The port used for communication between the Orion Web Console and the poller.

RSA handshake, AES 256 communication using WCF
17778 TCP Required to access the SolarWinds Information Service API and agent communication

SolarWinds Information Service API

SSL

Hardware requirements

The following table lists minimum hardware requirements and recommendations for a single standalone instance of IPAM.

IP1000/4000 IP16000 IPX
CPU Speed

Dual processor, dual core is recommended.

2.0 Ghz 2.4 GHz 3.0 GHz
Hard drive space 2 GB 5 GB 20 GB
Memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB

Because Orion uses SNMP to monitor your network, if you are unable to dedicate a network interface card to your Orion server, you may experience gaps in monitoring data because of the low priority generally assigned to SNMP traffic.

Database server (SQL Server) requirements

The following table lists software and hardware requirements for your SolarWinds Orion database server using SolarWindsNPM license levels.

The Orion server and the SolarWinds Orion database must use separate servers.

If you install on a virtual machine, you must maintain your SQL Server database on a separate, physical drive.

As of Orion Platform 2019.2, you can use Azure SQL as your database server.

As of Orion Platform 2018.2, you can use Amazon RDS as your database server.

IP1000 IP16000 IPX
SQL Server Express, Standard, or Enterprise versions of the following:

  • SQL Server 2014, SP1, SP2
  • SQL Server 2016, SP1, SP2
  • SQL Server 2017 (including installations on Linux)
  • SQL Server 2019 (including installations on Linux)

End-of-support notice: Orion Platform products are no longer compatible with SQL Server 2012, 2012 SP1, 2012 SP2, 2012 SP3, and 2012 SP4. To use new features introduced since Orion Platform 2018.4, upgrade your environment at your earliest convenience.

Recommendations

  • SolarWinds recommends that you use Express versions only for evaluations, very small environments, and EOC.
  • Because of latency, SolarWinds does not recommend installing your SQL Server and your IPAM server or additional polling engine in different locations across a WAN.
  • Use 64-bit version of SQL Server.
  • Use the Simple database recovery mode to ensure best performance.
  • You can set the database recovery model to Full Recovery if your Orion Database is hosted on a SQL Cluster or if you use Always On Availability. However, you must back up your database regularly and ensure that volume you store your transaction log has free space that is at least equal to or greater than the size of your Orion database. Your transaction logs will continue to grow indefinitely until a database backup is performed and the transactions committed to the database. We recommend daily database backups when you use the Full Recovery model.
  • Either mixed-mode or SQL authentication must be supported.
  • If you are managing your Orion database, SolarWinds recommends that you install the SQL Server Management Studio component.
  • If your Orion IPAM product installs SQL Server System CLR Types, a manual restart of the SQL Server service for your Orion database is required.
  • Use the following database select statement to check your SQL Server version, service pack or release level, and edition:select SERVERPROPERTY (‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’)
SQL Server collation
  • English with collation setting SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
  • English with collation setting SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
  • German with collation setting German_PhoneBook_CI_AS
  • Japanese with collation setting Japanese_CI_AS
  • Simplified Chinese with collation setting Chinese_PRC_CI_AS

We support CI database on an CS SQL Server.

We do not support case-sensitive databases.

CPU Dual quad core processor, 3.0 GHz or better Dual quad core processor, 3.0 GHz or better Dual quad core processor. 3.0 GHz or better
Hard drive space 2 GB minimum 5 GB minimum 20 GB minimum
  • Because of I/O requirements, your SQL Server should be hosted on a separate physical server configured as RAID 1+0. RAID 5 is not recommended for the SQL Server hard drive.
  • Other RAID configurations can negatively affect your SQL Server’s performance.
  • Mirrored drives for the OS and RAID 1+0 for database data files are recommended.
  • Solid state drives (SSD) are recommended for all components.
Memory 4 GB minimum

8 GB recommended

8 GB minimum

16 GB recommended

16 GB minimum

32 GB recommended

Authentication Either mixed-mode or Windows authentication. If you require SQL authentication, you must enable mixed mode on your SQL server.
Other software SolarWinds recommends you install the SQL Server Management Studio component on your Orion server.

The Installation wizard installs the following required x86 components if they are not found on your Orion database server:

  • SQL Server System Common Language Runtime (CLR) Types. Orion products use secure SQL CLR stored procedures for selected, non-business data operations to improve overall performance.
  • Microsoft SQL Server Native Client
  • Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects

You cannot share the SolarWinds Orion database with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and with Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry servers.

Amazon Web Service (AWS deployments)

For requirements for deploying SolarWinds Orion products to the Amazon cloud, see the Orion Platform system requirements.

Microsoft Azure

For requirements for deploying SolarWinds Orion products to the Azure cloud, see the Orion Platform system requirements.

Linux servers

SolarWinds Orion IPAM 2020.2 supports DHCP and DNS servers running:

  • Linux Ubuntu 14.x up to 18.04 LTS
  • Linux Debian 8, 9, and 10
  • RHEL and Centos 6, 7, and 8

 

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