I'm looking to implement Netbox as our IPAM + DCIM tool. Hoping to solve the problem of people not updating Visio diagrams by just generating site specific diagrams from Netbox, containing the devices/connections/circuits at a certain site. And when you document the "truth" there, you'll add the IPs/VLANs etc. too so it would work well as an IPAM from what I can see. Our current IPAM solution doesn't really seem to work that well when you have multiple customers with many VRFs and overlapping IP addresses.
However these commercial products have fancy integrations with DNS and DHCP, automatically updating the pools and zones. Netbox doesn't have those at least out of the box, but then again Infoblox etc. don't really help with the issue of documenting the connections between devices. So it's not really 1:1 comparision but they have that much overlapping parts that I wouldn't want to implement for example both Netbox and Infoblox.
Our DNS records are quite static (besides the subdomain that has all the AD connected PCs), so I probably could just add custom field in Netbox for IP addresses called hostname, and then run some scripts to update the DNS zones based on that.
Not sure about the DHCP though. Commercial products also have nicely clustered solutions at least according to Powerpoints, how about ISC DHCP (or Kea?)
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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