Assuring Accurate IP Inventory with IP Discovery

IP Management Webinar Series

IP address inventory databases tend to drift from reality over time. People forget to tell you when they unplug or move a server that's been occupying a certain IP address, and now it’s on a different network. They forget to mention that the subnet address you gave them was already being used, so they picked another one. Perhaps, part of an outage resolution was to add or move addresses and in the urgency of the moment, the inventory wasn't updated.

There are hundreds of reasons why IP inventory information drifts from the reality it is intended to track. So how do you keep it in sync? After all, accuracy of IP address information is becoming more critical to organizations as IP networks become the de facto transport for all communications and as regulatory requirements clamp down on even IP address accountability. The answer is simple: take inventory periodically. An IP discovery capability can help by enabling you to take inventory of your IP address space.

Extended by popular demand, this eighth webinar in INS’s IP Address Management webinar series will address key concepts, strategies, and benefits around using IP discovery techniques to maintain the accuracy of your IP address inventory. IP networking expert Tim Rooney will discuss: 

• Motivation of IP discovery
• Basic concepts and benefits of IP discovery
• IP discovery techniques
  • Ping sweeps
  • DNS lookups
  • Device characterization
• Strategies for implementing IP discovery for inventory reconciliation