Administrative Structure

• Organisation(s)

This is an administrative division for example a company, a customer, a business unit etc. mostly used for Managed Service Providers to allocate separate customers

The org has a Name,  a Type, e.g. Company, Customer, Business Unit, 

Defaults to default and not required to add.

Which contains:

• • Network Domain(s)

A routing domain or address space where the IP addresses and MAC addresses are unique.

Used where an Organisation has overlapping address spaces, routing domains etc.  The Adresses, subnets, MAC addresses, Hostnames, Security Zones in it must be unique to this domain

Defaults to default and not required to add.

Which contains:

• Security Zones

A security zone is a administrative domain within the Network Domain 

Defaults to default and not required to add.

Which contains:

• • • Subnets

CIDR notated subnets.  Either manually entered or discovered from Interface configuration information in NMIS or Open-Audit Enterprise.  A subnet is associated with Addresses, Gateways

• • Endpoints are discovered interfaces / MAC addresses

An endpoint is Network Attachment usually the MAC address found in NMSI an interface description 

• • Addresses are IP addresses which are inferred from the Subnets

An IP address entry starts as inferred from the subnet information (it is associated with a subnet obviously).  once import of information from NMIS and Open-Audit Enterprise  

• • GatewaysHostnames
    Security Zones
    A network domain will have a list of top level address spaces (auto manage matching address space):
    10.0.0.0/8
    192.168.0.0/20
    203.45.32.0/23
    A Network Domain can have:
    1 or more Security Zones
    Many Gateways