Importing sites with mapped fields
How IPAM Complexity Slows Your Network Operations
3 AM, the Dallas office network is down. You know the affected subnet, but which building? Which team? How critical?
Without site context, your 5-minute fix becomes a 30-minute hunt through spreadsheets and Slack channels while users wait.
This isn’t just inconvenient—it’s expensive. Every minute of downtime costs your business, and every minute spent playing IP detective is a minute not spent solving the actual problem.
As networks scale across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, this lack of infrastructure context creates real operational pain for your team.
Beyond Basic IP Address Management: Why Location Context Changes Everything
Traditional IPAM tools treat your subnets as isolated entities, just numbers in a database. But your network doesn’t operate in isolation. Every subnet you manage serves a purpose, supports a team, and exists in a specific place.
When your subnets lack real-world context, you face:
- Slower incident response: Time wasted correlating IPs to physical locations during outages
- Manual audit nightmares: Spreadsheet archaeology to match network assets with business requirements
- Guesswork capacity planning: Limited visibility into usage patterns by region, department, or site
The Solution: Subnet-to-Site Mapping That Actually Works
Stop managing IP addresses. Start managing infrastructure.
LightMesh now connects your IP space to the physical world and your organizational structures. Whether you’re managing remote offices, data centers, or global cloud deployments, every subnet gets a clear sense of place.
This isn’t just better IP management. It’s infrastructure intelligence that transforms your IPAM operations.
How It Works
Bulk Import for Scale
Go to imports, upload a spreadsheet with your site details and subnet CIDRs. Map essential fields like site name, address, city, state/province, zone, and country or add new fields using the schema. Then match your imported fields. LightMesh automatically creates relationships and fills in missing subnets or zones.
💡Tip: Use schema to create custom fields to match your organization’s structure: e.g. add phone number to your sites list.
Site assigned to the subnet view under the summary page
Quick Manual Assignment
Navigate to any subnet, click “Edit,” and assign it to a site using the search or filter tools. Simple, fast, and intuitive for your daily IPAM workflow.
Add a site to the subnet directly from the dropdown menu
💡Tip: Use the multi-select subnet picker, and click “Load more” if needed to find what you’re looking for or search manually.
Built for Real Networks
This address management feature emerged from customer feedback requested by a large enterprise managing 20,000+ subnets across distributed environments. Our team designed it to solve real problems, not theoretical ones.
The Impact on Your IPAM Operations
- Faster incident resolution: Instantly identify which office, team, or region is affected
- Audit-ready compliance: Generate reports that map network assets to business requirements automatically
- Smarter capacity planning: Understand IP usage patterns by location and team to make data-driven decisions
- Clearer ownership: Eliminate confusion about who manages which network segments
Ready to Bring Order to Your IP Space?
Your network infrastructure reflects your business operations. It’s time your IPAM tool did the same.
With subnet-to-site mapping in LightMesh, you get the infrastructure context needed to operate with confidence and scale your IP management intelligently, whether you’re managing a single data center or a global hybrid cloud deployment.
Start your free trial today.
Learn more about site mapping in the LightMesh guides.