I am looking for a network address provisioning tool. It needs to have the following features:

- not written in Perl or LISP
- assignable subranges for different admins
- assignable subranges for host classes
- filter and translation rules
- hostname support and generate /etc/hosts, DNS zones, DHCP pools
- triggers to generate other entries
- web interface, apache or lighttpd, with security perspective
- stores in its own text files or supports PostgreSQL
- runs on Debian, Fedora, Slackware, and Ubuntu

Hello,

Have a look at this article. It points you to various systems and possibilities. It's a bit outdated but could give you some pointers.

Kind regards,

Eric

Is there a link I should use?

Hi,

I'm sorry, I didn't even notice I didn't put in the link. Here it is:
Linux Provisioning Systems to the rescue.

Kind regards,

Eric

I'm not even sure what those packages are doing. The big thing being mentioned is they install a system. I'm not sure how that even relates to provisioning a resource other than a farm of machines, or virtual machines, being the resource.

I'm only interested in managing a private LAN IP address space. Someone wants an address, or a CIDR block of addresses so a network admin uses this tool to find address(es) and assigns it to them. That assignment is recorded in this system. I want to have classes or pools of address space, too, so the assignments can be made from specific pools. For example, if it is a software developer, they get their IPs from the software developer pool (the network admin would know they are a software developer and select that pool).

A hostname, or list of hostnames, or a hostname pattern can be assigned. Then it would generate the DNS zone files for the local pseudo-TLD, as well as the local private reverse zone. The pools might have a subdomain to use by default.

Different views on web pages might include seeing all IPs assigned in software development, or all IPs in a specified range.

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