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Product Enhancement Highlights:

Workflow ­ Delegate with Confidence

Enterprise organizations have dozens of administrators who need access to
IPAM in order to make changes. However, not every administrator has the
level of knowledge and skill needed to guarantee that the data they enter is
correct and accurate. Proteus Workflow introduces a change approval
mechanism that introduces an approval process for any changes made by
lower-level administrators. Senior administrators are automatically notified
when a change request is made so that they can review and approve the
change.

Workflow allows senior administrators to delegate daily IPAM tasks to more
junior administrators with the confidence and knowledge that any mistake
made can be caught and corrected prior to going live across the network.
This gives senior administrators time to focus on more strategic initiatives
while still ensuring that any errors are proactively caught before a network
disruption can occur.

Self Provisioning ­ Reduce IP Management Costs

The latest version of Proteus now provides Self Provisioning capabilities,
an extension of workflow, as described above. In many organizations, the
brunt of daily IPAM administration involves fulfilling user requests for new
IP addresses, networks and DNS hosts. These requests often account for the
lion¹s share of the work in maintaining an IPAM system. Proteus now gives
administrators the ability to automate user requests through a Self
Provisioning portal or through direct tie-in to an organization¹s existing
change request tools. This is accomplished using the combined features of
Proteus¹ Next Available Network/IP Address, Workflow and the API. Users can
make their own requests, have these automatically added to Proteus, and have
an administrator notified in real-time who can approve the request. This
drastically reduces the time and effort spent managing the IPAM system by
helping to automate the single most demanding task.

IP Reconciliation ­ Intelligent IPAM Automation
For an IPAM solution to be effective, it must be kept up-to-date with what
is occurring on the actual network. While DNS and DHCP integration help to
achieve this, static IP address management can be a time consuming affair.
Administrators need a way to validate the static IP data within Proteus to
ensure that it is updated and accurate. IP Reconciliation builds on Proteus¹
existing Network Discovery feature to provide administrators with the tools
needed to automate static IP address management.

Using IP Reconciliation, administrators can track actual IP usage on the
network and compare this to the data within Proteus. This allows
administrators to unearth reclaimable IPs, those no longer in use on the
network, as well as discover IPs in use that have not been permitted by
Proteus. These Ounknown¹ IP addresses pose potential security risks as they
could be rogue systems added to the network without authorization. Using IP
Reconciliation, administrators are able to reconcile the data within Proteus
with the actual network to ensure the accuracy of all IP data.