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INTRODUCTION
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1.1
Scope
VitalQIP ® is the industry's leading IP management software product. This product description
provides a detailed technical and marketing description of VitalQIP. This includes background
on the basics of IP management; the business needs and value proposition, and an overview of
the product itself, including the latest release 7.3 features. This document should be used
and view in conjunction with the most current release notes "VitalQIP 7.3 Release Notes" as
well as the User Guide.
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Audience
This document is intended for Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Services, Business
Partners and Information Delivery personnel requiring an in-depth description of VitalQIP ®
and its extended capabilities.
1.3
Introduction to IP Management
It can be argued that VitalQIP, or QIP as it was originally named, created the IP management
software market. QIP was first released to the market in 1995 based on a request from J P
Morgan for a software application to manage their IP address space. They required a single
centralized inventory of their IP addresses, how their IP space was subnetted, and which
addresses were assigned where.
Now, fifteen+ years later and over 850 customers worldwide, VitalQIP is still the industry
leading product. The basic requirements of IP Address Management coupled with DNS and
DHCP services required has not changed over the years. What has changed is the network
trends and requirements of these networks that have made having a consolidated system like
VitalQIP essential to both enterprise and service provide companies. VitalQIP has met these
growing trends in every way – whether it be responding to new technologies such as IPv6, VoIP
or ENUM; or meeting the needs of our customers by introducing the Alcatel-Lucent Appliances
or provide tools such as better reporting or workflow manager to continue to provide
automation and efficiencies in customer‟s networks. The explosion of IP enabled devices and
networks along with policies and procedures has further escalated customer‟s needs of having
a proven, scalable IP Address Management solution in their architectures today. The following
section goes back to the basics to discuss some of the fundamental concepts.
In general, the term "IP management" can be summarized as a number of broad functions:
Configuring network nodes IP enabled devices with IP information
Monitoring IP address usage
Configuring host name to IP address lookup facilities
Auditing and tracking the changes in the IP address space
VitalQIP Product Description
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