The network engineer has a drawing of the network with equipment, circuits, and address space requirements.

Hierarchical network areas have been added to the drawing.

An IPal™ network is defined for each area starting with the largest area.

The network supports IPv4 addresses.

This network shares address space with its superior networks - it is aggregated.

The allocation setting determines how IPal will analyze and select free space in this network.

When Lending is enabled, IPal will automatically transfer address space from this network to subordinate networks to meet their allocation needs.

The re-use interval determines when a deallocated address may be re-used in the network.

All of the network areas are defined to create the network tree.

The Acme corporate network uses the block 192.168.120.0/24. It is defined in the root area "Acme" and IPal will divide the space and distribute it throughout the network.

The Engineering Lab uses a separate instance of private space. It is defined as a non-aggregate network, shown by the red icon, to prevent IPal from aggregating its addresses with the other networks.

Equipment is defined for each router and server in the network.

Templates pre-define the number and type of interfaces and card slots on a device, simplifying configuration. Templates for blades assist in the configuration of chassis-type equipment.

Once created, the equipment interfaces are connected to the network.

A connection represents a network segment. Specify the size of the connection to determine the size of the block allocated to the segment.

If there is no address space available in the network, it will be transferred from the parent network "Acme."

To connect additional equipment to this segment, select the Sales network and identify the existing connection.

IPal will select another free address from 192.168.120.160/29.