Network documentation and IPAM
Keep an IP address plan, diagrams and port maps that people can trust, and use them to prevent conflicts and speed up troubleshooting.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 40 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Find address conflicts and errors in IPAM data
- Explain what belongs in network documentation and what doesn't
- Follow a process to allocate a new subnet or address and keep records current
- Read a patch map to trace a connection
Course outline
- 1.Network documentation and IPAM that people trustVideo · 2 min
- 2.What good documentation containsLesson · 20 min
- 3.Keeping IPAM and diagrams currentLesson · 15 min
- 4.Auditing documentation against the live networkLesson · 20 min
- 5.Network documentation and IPAM: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
- 6.Network documentation and IPAM: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- NIST SP 800-53 CM-8 (system component inventory)
- ITIL 4: Service configuration management practice
- RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
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