1. Create an account
Go to sign-up and enter your first name, last name, company and email address. You receive an email with a temporary password straight away. Whoever signs up becomes the owner of the organisation and can add other users.
After your first sign-in, go to My account and
- change to your own password (at least 10 characters)
- enable two-factor authentication with an authenticator app, and keep the recovery codes safe
2. Add your subnets
Start with the networks you have. Under Subnets, choose “New subnet” and enter the network in CIDR notation, for example 10.20.30.0/24, and a name. Under “More fields” you can add VLAN, site, gateway, DNS servers, purpose and tags.
Networks inside other networks are shown as a hierarchy automatically. A common approach is to register one large network per site (for example 10.20.0.0/16) and smaller networks per VLAN beneath it.
3. Register IP addresses
There are several ways to add addresses:
- One address: “New address”, enter the IP, hostname, status and optionally a description.
- Next free: open a subnet and press “Next free IP”.
- Many at once: type a range (
10.20.30.10-20or10.20.30.10-10.20.30.50) or a whole network (10.20.30.0/28). - List from a spreadsheet: paste lines of
IP,hostname. - From Excel or CSV: under Import / export, upload an .xlsx or CSV file. Column headers in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English or Spanish are detected automatically, and you see a preview before anything is saved. No spreadsheet yet? Download the Excel template and fill it in.
Every address is linked automatically to the most specific subnet it falls in. The statuses mean:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| In use | The address is assigned to a machine or service. |
| Free | Registered but not in use – for example after a machine has been removed. |
| Reserved | Set aside for something specific, but not in use yet. |
| DHCP | Handed out dynamically by a DHCP server. |
| Offline | The machine exists but is not on the network right now. |
| Deprecated | Should no longer be used and can be released. |
Need more detail? Open “More fields” in the form: MAC address, device, device type, room, department, site, owner, tags and custom fields.
4. Ranges for DHCP and reservations
Under Ranges you record blocks that belong together, such as DHCP pools and reserved blocks. Ranges do not count toward the address limit, and “next free IP” skips DHCP pools.
5. Search
The search box at the top of every page searches as you type. Press / to jump to it. You can search by IP, partial IP, CIDR, hostname, MAC, room, department and tags, and combine with filters:
| Filter | Example | Finds |
|---|---|---|
status: | status:free | Addresses with a given status |
tag: | tag:printer | Addresses with a tag |
room: | room:"B2.14" | Addresses in a room |
dept: | dept:finance | Addresses in a department |
site: | site:oslo | Addresses at a site |
vlan: | vlan:20 | Addresses in subnets with VLAN 20 |
in: / subnet: | in:10.20.0.0/16 | Addresses within a network |
host:, mac:, device:, owner:, type: | type:printer | Matches in one specific field |
Search for a full IP address that is not registered and you see which subnet it falls in, and can register it directly.
6. Invite colleagues
Under Users, an owner or administrator adds new users with name and email. They receive sign-in details by email immediately.
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, including managing other owners |
| Administrator | Manage users, API keys and the organisation, and change all data |
| Editor | Create, change and delete addresses, subnets and ranges |
| Read-only | Search and view, but not change |
7. Automate
Once the basics are in place, your machines and network can keep the inventory up to date themselves. See auto-discovery for agents and the collector, and the REST API for integrations.
8. The audit log
Everything you do goes into the Audit log: who, when, from which IP address, and the old and new value of every field. On each address you also see the history of that address.
9. Snapshots – if something goes wrong
ipmanager takes a snapshot of the whole IP inventory every day something has changed, and before every import. Under Snapshots you can also take your own named snapshot before larger changes. If an import went wrong, an administrator can put the inventory back to a snapshot – after seeing what will be added, removed and changed.