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ProVision 8.2 Upgrade Feature Highlight – Network Scanner/Auditor

by Pete Sclafani | January 30, 2023

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If there is one thing that both network administrators and IT professionals understand – it is the frustration of wasting precious time. With the growing responsibilities being placed on technical teams and the dream of automation fueling the discovery of new areas of technical debt, time is only becoming more scarce while complexity is increasing.

It’s with this thought in mind that we have added an interactive scanner feature to ProVision. If you currently spend a significant amount of time trying to verify and correct stale data, you will be thrilled to see what this new function can do.

Trying to Reconcile the Past?

Thanks to the capability of our new scanning feature, you finally have a crucial auditing element to help ensure that your IPAM tool is not only up to date, but stays that way over time. One of the obvious use cases is ensuring that your IP data is in line with the infrastructure that is using it. Typical network monitoring tools could provide some of this information, but as they are missing the infrastructure perspective – and yes, that includes your routers! How accurate is your IPAM data without some sort of regular synchronization with your current infrastructure. With the new scanning and auditing module in ProVision, we give you the customizable data repository to import from your legacy tools, connect with your existing tools, and keep it up to date on an ongoing basis.

Plenty of Versatility

We have designed this new feature specifically to offer as much flexibility as possible to the user. We natively support dual-stack networks, so whether you have IPv4, IPv6 or both deployed, you can customize the scanning frequency and method on a node by node basis. This lets you ensure that your infrastructure audits don’t interfere with operational needs.

Ready to Get Started?

When you trust the ProVision platform from 6connect to help maintain your network infrastructure, you can be sure of one thing – we will always continue striving to improve this versatile tool. If you are ready to get started with ProVision, or if you have some specific questions for our team, reach out today to learn more.

“We decided to move our rather complex IP address and DHCP management process to ProVision and it has worked out great for us!! The team at 6connect were very flexible and went above and beyond to accommodate our requirements and helped to make the migration as smooth and hitch free as possible. Kudos to the team @ 6connect!”

Premkumar Subramaniam
Head of R&D

“We are excited to be partnering with 6connect to leverage their technology and talent. We particularly admire their long-standing IPv6 contributions and their ability to service and support customers in this area, some who are the largest service provider in the world. The 6connect executive leadership team and technical team are great to work with and we look forward to many partnered projects to help customers address their Cloud, IoT and Security needs with IPv6. Automation, workflow and orchestration are critical to the success of most of these projects and 6connect is well positioned to help our mutual customers in those areas.”

Ed Horley
Co-Founder & CEO

“Enterprises can struggle managing purposefully segmented DDI architectures with any agility. Our partnership with 6connect empowers customers with complex infrastructures to move faster to service the business while consolidating visibility and control over their estate.”

Andrew Wertkin
Chief Strategy Officer,

“6connect’s approach to automation addresses quite a few challenges with physical and virtual networks – how to improve the agility of your current network infrastructure without sacrificing reliability and adoption of future network technologies.”

Pär Lange
Investment Director

“A customer is looking for an integrated solution from a single vendor for both IPAM and DNS. Through the 6connect reseller program, Secure64 is able to offer the most secure DNS solutions married to a unique combination of IPAM and resource provisioning that customers want. It’s a marriage made in heaven.”

Mark Beckett
VP of Marketing

“A huge benefit of working with the 6connect team is that they devoted a lot of resources to get our products integrated so we had the turnkey solution that we could take to market. It was very easy to work with their team to get product integrated and successfully launched.”

Mark Beckett
VP of Marketing