IPMaster V1.4 (May 19, 2008)

System Summarize

IPMaster is a IP address management software. It provides Visual IP address assignment (network topology tree), automatic subnet calculator, mask calculation, subnetting, network segment scanning, host monitoring, ping, traceroute, telnet, and netsend etc. It supports VLSM( Variable Length Subnet Masks) and CIDR( Classless Inter-Domain Routing). The purpose of this software is to assign and manage IP address efficiently for enterprise network.

Running environment

l         Operation system: Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP,Win2003, WinVista 

l         Min CPU: 450MHz

l         Min Ram: over 64M

l         Min HD Space: 50M

l         Best screen resolution: 1024*768 or above

Glossary

l         IP address management library:

The library to saving all IP assigning information.

l         Network segment:

Represents IP range and is the root of IP address management library. It is identified by IP address and mask ,and can perform subnet dividing, e.g. 192.168.100.0/24.

l         Subnet:

A smaller network created by dividing a larger network into equal parts, which is identified by IP address and mask. There are four types of subnet: assigned, sub-divisible, reserved, unused.

l         Topological tree:

The tree showing affiliation of network segment and subnet. The root of the tree is network segment and the subnet is middle node or leaf node.

l         Assigned subnet:

This kind of subnet can not be subdivided and was assigned to host. It was showed as leaf node in topological tree.

l         Sub-divisible subnet:

This kind of subnet can be subdivided into smaller subnet and was showed as middle node or leaf node in topological tree.

l         Reserved subnet:

This kind of subnet was reserved by the user and can not be used.

l         Unused subnet:

This kind of subnet hasn’t been planed and is the remaining subnet other than the above mentioned subnet.

l         Host:

A computer or other device on a TCP/IP network. It is logical mapping of each IP address in the assigned subnet. There are 3 types of host: assigned, reserved, unused.

System Function

• Visual IP address management function. The whole interface is divided into three parts: the left part is network topology tree to display subnet hierarchy, right part is the content of subnet, the bottom part is tip message area.
  
  
• Can establish network segment to manage.
  
  
• Automatic subnetting function. The system provides automatic subnet calculator, at the sub-divisible subnet node, input "Amount of Subnets", "Hosts in each Subnet" or "Subnet Mask", the system will generate child subnet under the target subnet automatically.
  
  
• Manual subnetting function. The system provides manual subnet calculator, at the sub-divisible subnet node, input "IP address", "subnet mask", the system will generate a designated child subnet under the target subnet.
  
  
• Delete function. Can delete appointed subnet.
  
  
• Relevant function of host. The system provide functions such as ping, traceroute, telnet, net send etc.
  
  
• Search function, the user can search relevant message in the IP address management library by subnet ID, host IP or name.
  
  
• Saving function, the IP address management library information can be saved and will be loaded and displayed automatically when the system was running next time.
  
  
• Export function, all the information in the IP address management library can be output to a Excel file, which includes: subnet name, network segment type, subnet ID, subnet mask, address range and address amount, the host information of the assigned subnet will be output at the same time.
  
  
• Redo and undo function, can cancel or repeat the last step of subnetting operation.
  
  
• Scan function. The host name, MAC address and user name of all hosts in the target subnet can be obtained automatically.
  
  
• Monitoring function. The system can monitor the running status of the monitored host, when the host is shutdown, the tip message area would warn by red hints.
  
  
• Multi-way of subnet display, the system provides several display way of subnet such as "display assigned and sub-divisible segment", "display all segment"," display assigned segment", "display unused segment", "display reserved segment". The default way is " display assigned and sub-divisible segment". And the system also supports the display by" subnet ID" or "subnet name". The default way is " subnet ID".
  
  
• Password log in function, the password is not required when you login for the first time.
  
  
• User-defined command function, the system provides 4 default functions - ping, traceroute, telnet and net send, the user can also custom other function.
  
  
• User-defined host column function, the user can custom the host information column.