The most recent discussion of this I found here was from five years ago, and I'm curious to see if there are any better options available now, or what the current consensus is. In my case I don't need anything too fancy with a lot of options, just bare bones IP network management with an intuitive UI and not too many "rules" about how I can organize and keep track of things. What we've tried so far:
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Plain text file. This is what we're using now. It's simple and it works. The problem is, of course, keeping it up to date and in sync between users.
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phpipam. The UX is an unintuitive mess and there is accomidation for "real world" management. For example there doesn't seem to be a way to note that certain ranges of subnets (that are not themselves subnets) as logically reserved for certain purposes. Without that feature, the whole package becomes useless to us.
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Netbox. I only took a cursory look at this and didn't complete the install, because the installation script was platform dependent and intended for linux; ideally we want something that will run with minimal hassle on FreeBSD. My 2 second impression was that this was not going to be the case when I noticed the installer shell script referencing
#!/bin/bash. I'm going to take a closer look at it today however and give it a spin on an Ubuntu VM. Seems like it may be a bit overkill for us as well, as we really just want to track IP subnets and subdivisions within those subnets, and VLAN assignments. We don't need to keep track of machines, circuits, racks, etc.
Any and all recommendations are welcome, so long as they are: Free, self-hosted, and have a web GUI (no windows programs). Thanks in advance!
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