How to Install IPAM tool GestioIP on Linux

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In this tutorial we will learn How to Install IPAM tool GestioIP on Linux using the yum/dnf package manager as well as docker compose deployment

Introduction

GestioIP is a automated, web based IPv4/IPv6 address management (IPAM) software. It features powerful network discovery and IP tracking functions and offers search and filter functions for both networks and host, permitting Internet Search Engine equivalent expressions. This lets you find the information that administrators frequently need easily and quickly. GestioIP IPAM is free software.

Features

  • Simple to use and well-organized data display
  • Strong fast search for the network and host that is easily accessed from any page, allowing expressions similar to those used in Internet search engines, such as “exact match” or -string_to_ignore.
  • Ability to handle address ranges for various clients separately
  • A built-in VLAN administration mechanism
  • An integrated dial-up and rental line management system
  • An integrated control scheme for self-governing systems
  • SNMP for network and VLAN discovery
  • DNS zone file generator for forward and reverse zones (supporting BIND and tinydns zone files) and host detection via SNMP
  • displays the host’s status.
  • Check with just one click if an IP address responds to ping requests and whether
  • displays available network ranges
  • Online subnet calculator: integrated subnet calculator
  • A hierarchical IPv6 addressing plan builder that is integrated
  • Adaptable columns for hosts and networks
  • IP ranges reserved for certain uses (like DHCP)
  • Web form to quickly switch from GestióIP IPAM to spreadsheet-based IP address management (.xls – MS Excel)
  • SNMP-capable devices can import networks via a web form.
  • a web form to host or export networks to CSV files
  • Integration of GSS-TSIG secure dynamic DNS updates with Microsoft DNS and Bind DNS server
  • SNMP-based automatic network updating
  • Networks are automatically updated against DNS
  • Networks are automatically updated against OCS Inventory NG Statistics
  • Completely auditable
  • Simple installation using a script
  • thoroughly recorded
  • Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (traditional and modern), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Russian are among the many languages spoken there.
  • total support for IPv4 and IPv6

Requirements

Host Operating System : Any one of the Linux distributions is supported: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, CentOS, SuSE. We are using Redhat based OS Rocky Linux 8
Software: Apache2 with mod_perl, Mysql or MariaDB
Hardware (min): DualCore CPU 2GHz, RAM: 2GB (recommended: 4GB)

The Host must be able to connect to the Internet. Please check for Proxy if you are behind any corporate network.

Installation using Package Manager

Firewall Adaption to the Host

$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp

Create MariaDB root password 

$ sudo systemctl start mariadb.service

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

Enable EPEL RPM repository

$ sudo yum install epel-release

Script based installation

Download the script

$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/gestioip/files/gestioip_3.5.tar.gz

Untar the file gestioip_3.5.tar.gz

$ tar vzxf gestioip_3.5.tar.gz

Move inside the new directory 

$ cd gestioip_3.5

Execute the script now 

$ sudo ./setup_gestioip.sh

Now you can follow the instruction as prompted by the script towards its completion. A log file would be created with a name date_setup.log in the same folder where the script is located.

Once the script is completed successfully you can restart the HTTP service

$ sudo service httpd restart

You should be able to access the We based database configuration at http://server_ip/gestioip/install

Installation using docker-compose

Clone the repo or download & unzip the zip file 

$ git clone https://github.com/muebel/gestioip-docker-compose

OR

$ wget https://github.com/muebel/gestioip-docker-compose/archive/main.zip

$ unzip main.zip

$ mv gestioip-docker-compose-main gestioip-docker-compose

Move to the new Directory 

$ cd gestioip-docker-compose

Change the .env file followed by deploying using docker-compose 

$ docker-compose up -d

Expected Result

$ docker ps

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                    COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS       PORTS                  NAMES

89a10df7ffb5   gestioip/gestioip:3555   "/gestioip_install/s…"   1 hours ago   Up 1 hours   0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp   gip

0d5efdg2dfb9   mysql:5                  "docker-entrypoint.s…"   1 hours ago   Up 1 hours   3306/tcp, 33060/tcp    gip-mysql

Now you can access to the Gestioip Installation at 

http://IP_DOCKER_HOST

Make use of the of the below default credentials 

Username: gipadmin

Password: PASSWORD

Please do change the password after first login from “Manage >Users”

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