Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Defining IP Address Blocks

The IPAM console contains several nodes that include different sets of information. The core of all this is the IP Address Space node, which contains the IP Address Blocks, IP Address Inventory, and IP Address Range groups nodes beneath it. Before server data collection is forced or run, network administrators may want to define IP address blocks to ensure address data gets sorted appropriately. An IP address block is the highest-level address space defined in the IPAM console. The IP block should be created based on the actual IPv4 subnets and IPv6 network prefixes. DHCP IP Ranges and discovered and manually entered or imported IP addresses are sorted beneath the appropriate IP address blocks. For our network examples, ...