Many issues reported with scanning subnets and updating host statuses are related to SElinux being enabled. So far the solution was to completely disable SElinux, but this was more workaround than anything else. Robert was kind enough to share SElinux policy that should be used with phpipam if SElinux is enabled on your server.

Basically it permits the opening of raw IP sockets for non-root users, that are required for executing ping command.

1) Create the file http_ping.tt and add the following to it: ... Read more

phpipam has support for creating custom fields to be used in address, subnets, vlans, devices and users tables. This is useful when you need to add some custom data to your tables. You can set your custom fields under Administration > Custom fields.

It supports following types of data and it representations: ... Read more

Having large amount of subnets (and other tables) on unoptimised MySQL database server can significantly increase page loads. To see which parameters need to be change I usually use mysqltuner perl script, which connects to database, analyses data and proposes which parameters need to be changed that are not optimally set based on current load. ... Read more

Dear all, I am happy to announce new version of phpipam IP address management – version 1.1. This release fixed some bugs, provided some new features, but most importantly it was focused on:

• Security fixes (SQL injection, XSS scripting, crypting DB passwords, brute-force attack prevention, …)
• Performace improvements (Caching, reusing SQL connection),..
• mod_rewrite no longer required, selectable URL structure under settings

Some screens:

... Read more

I have opened a twitter account to deploy news etc easier, if you like you can follow @phpipam on twitter. I was hoping to get at least guys using development releases to help me testing.

brm

From version 0.9 on there is a option to automatically check statuses of configured hosts for selected subnets, and discovery of new hosts. I received some related questions about it, so here is a short description and guide for it.

Firstly, pcntl support for php cli is advised so phpipam can do parallel icmp checks, this greatly reduces time required for checking status. You can check if your installation is ok with following command: ... Read more

Translation support will be available on next phpipam release, code is being redone and final checks ongoing. I have decided to go with gettext, it seems to be the most suitable for phpipam.

Translating is straight-forward, by providing translations for strings, for example:

#: functions/functions-mail.php:176
msgid “your domain username”
msgstr “translated text”

There are many tools available to help with translation, like poedit and others.

If anyone is interested in providing translation, please contact me on email. I have already received some requests in the past, I will try to dig up old emails…

brm

I have received a request for help on manual installation of phpIPAM on debian linux, so I decided to write a small how-to if anyone else has problems or is not so familiar with linux distributions and environment. I have used fresh default debian 6.0 as distribution because it is widely used, I believe on ubuntu linux procedure should be very similar, except maybe for locations of some config files.

I have used the following settings for installation:

• Fresh debian installation
• MySQL server not yet installed and no root pass configured
• Apache not installed and configured
• phpipam will be installed in default directory (no vhosts) under /phpipam/ folder

If you already have MySQL/apache set you can skip point 3.

Installation procedure: ... Read more

I recently noticed that phpIPAM is available also through FreeBSD ports (Thanks to Jake Smith):

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/phpipam && make install clean

Check your package managers, if it is available on some other unix distros post it here for reference...

brm