Chapter 1. Introduction

NorthStar is a system to help track and allocate IP Addresses in an IP Network. My company currently uses this system to track and maintain all of it's IP Allocation and to some extent tracking things such as Out-of-band access ports, Remote Power Control ports, DNS information and other information that can be related to a specific device. NorthStar was written in Perl and should be fairly portable to most platforms.

1.1. Features

This is by no means a complete list of features that NorthStar provides, however should give a good idea of what the system can do