The Address monitoring utilities is a suite of tools for day-to-day monitoring and management of DNS names, IP and MAC addresses. Address monitoring tools are used to manage DNS name, IP and MAC address of a network.
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ManageEngine OpUtils provides the following utilities for performing address monitoring operations.
IP Address Manager (IPAM) helps you keeping track of all your IP addresses. IP monitoring tool allows you to define a hierarchy to add all your subnets based on their usage/location and then scan them to get the current status.
Using this tool, network engineers can identify whether an IP address is currently available or not. The IP address monitoring software helps to manage the IP addresses in a static DNS environment, using pre-defined user policy. The IP address monitor tool helps in monitoring IP's by scanning a subnet and provides the availability status of IP addresses on that subnet. One can check whether a particular IP is reserved or available. The IP address monitoring tool accept multiple subnet inputs, which helps in scanning your entire network to get the status of the IP addresses. Know more»
- Jeffrey Lane, IT Administrator, The Automaster Motor Co. 
When OpUtils detects a new MAC address in the network either through periodic or manual scanning of subnets, the device gets added to this result as a rogue device. Initially, all the discovered MAC addresses will be shown here. The administrator has to verify the list and delete the valid devices. This is a one time configuration after scanning the entire network. Later on, if any new MAC address is found during the scanning process, it gets listed here.
OpUtils periodically scans the routers and subnets to detect any new systems/devices found in the network. Initially it lists all the systems/devices discovered in the network. The Administrator has to verify and mark all the valid systems/devices in the network. Know more»
The MAC address resolver can fetch the MAC address for any SNMP-enabled node, with the provided IP address. This MAC address monitoring tool also discovers the physical address of a device and maps it with the corresponding IP address. In addition to showing the MAC address, the tool also shows the SNMP availability, IP address, DNS name, port number, community, system type, and system description.
The MAC address scan tool scans a given range of IP's and displays the MAC addresses for various devices available in the given range. This MAC address monitoring tool also displays the port number, community, MAC address, DNS name, system name, and system type.
The DHCP scope monitor, which is a type of IP address monitoring tool fetches all the scopes that are defined in the DHCP server and displays the total (used and available) IP addresses in each scope. When the number of available IP addresses falls below a defined value, the display turns red to indicate the criticality.
OpUtils periodically queries the routers and subnets defined in the Router settings and collects the information, such as MAC Address, IP Address, type and DNS Name of the devices and stores it in the database. The data is also updated whenever a scan is performed for a given IP range. This data is presented in the form of a table showing the details of the collected information along with the time at which the data was updated.
- Jeffrey Lane, IT Administrator, The Automaster Motor Co.
Network engineers can use DNS resolver to quickly get the host name of any node whose IP address is known and vice versa. This IP address monitoring software also shows details like the default net mask, network type and the status for the forward and reverse lookups.
Using the DNS scan tool, one can scan a range of IP addresses to see whether the forward and reverse lookup actions are working fine for the devices. It also shows the response time. In cases where an IP is not used in the network, the monitoring IP address tool prompts that the system does not exist in the network.
For more details on each of the tools, refer to the Address Monitoring Tools section in the online help.
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