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We are working on a script to read route tables and with some automatic enrichment and human validation, add missing IP Networks (as IP4Network/IP6Network objects) to Integrity. Since creating a network requires providing the parent IP Block ID, I am wondering what the ‘right’ way is to find the parent for a CIDR range that may or may not exist as an IP?Network already in the IPAM database.I have tried the following:filter=range:contains(“204.0.113.0/24”) - which errors (because ‘contains’ doesn’t work with CIDR)filter=range:contains(“204.0.113.0”) - where I just take the lowest IP in the CIDR range. This works but seems sub-optimal to me for some reason. Maybe because I can’t be sure if the block fits the entire CIDR, though that seems unlikely to be a real problem in practice.I have also tried various forms of range:le and range:ge but (as documented) they only match on the prefix length and protocol (determined based on whether the address is v4 or v6), and so is not useful in this

LiveAction releases: Network Resource Monitoring, Remote Capture, and Security Insights  Join or product management team as we highlight three major product innovations that take network observability, troubleshooting, and performance visibility to the next level: Network Resource Monitoring: Extend LiveNX with complete visibility into device health and performance across routers, switches, and wireless infrastructure.  Remote Capture Engine: Troubleshoot faster by capturing and analyzing packet data at the edge, from remote and/or hybrid users with no on-site intervention required.  Security Insights: Real-time anomaly detection and packet-level forensics that bridge the gap between NetOps and SecOps without the cost or complexity of legacy NDR tools. Timestamps:Network Resource Monitoring: 0:00Network Resource Monitoring Demo: 5:22 Remote Capture Engine: 20:19Remote Capture Engine Demo: 20:28Security Insights: 32:36Security Insights Demo: 39:55Q&A: 41:50  

Edge updates and GSLB in action BlueCat Edge is evolving and in this webinar we show you what's new!Join us for a customer webinar hosted by Bill Welch, Director of Product Management, to explore the latest Edge innovations, see our powerful new Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) in action, and get a sneak peek at what’s coming next.     

Introducing LiveAction 25.3 AI-Powered Network Intelligence, Comprehensive Device Visibility, and Security AnalyticsAs networks evolve across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments, complexity grows  and traditional monitoring tools can’t keep up. The result: slow troubleshooting, costly downtime, and blind spots between performance and security.LiveAction 25.3 changes that. This release brings together AI-driven network intelligence, unified device visibility, and security analytics to help IT teams move from reactive monitoring to proactive, predictive operations.Meet LiveAssist – Your AI Copilot for NetOpsAs networks become more distributed, IT teams face a flood of telemetry and alerts that obscure the real issue. LiveAssist, our new AI-powered assistant for LiveNX, changes how NetOps teams work — transforming complex data into clear, actionable answers in seconds.Built on advanced agentic AI, LiveAssist doesn’t just summarize data, it thinks and acts like an experienced networ

Register for the Next Layer 8 Discussion Series on December 11th The New Frontier of Network Visibility: Finding Truth Across Boundaries  Network discovery used to be straightforward: run a scan, collect SNMP responses, and compare them to your IPAM records. Those days are gone.  Today’s enterprise networks are a patchwork of virtualized environments, cloud overlays, encrypted tunnels, and segmented firewalls — each creating a different visibility boundary. As networks evolve toward hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, traditional discovery methods struggle to keep up.  Centralized scanners can’t see through strict DMZ boundaries. SNMP polling provides limited configuration detail. Even modern monitoring platforms often operate at the packet or flow layer, giving context on traffic but not on the actual state or configuration of devices and services. The result: most teams still face a deceptively simple but technically complex question — Do we actually know what’s running in our netw

Is anyone else out there experiencing failures when building custom containers using either v25.1.0 or v25.1.1 as their dockerfile FROM sources?Example:0.372 Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease [75.1 kB] 0.454 Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease [27.2 kB] 0.497 Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease [44.0 kB] 0.543 Ign:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease0.581 Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages [8066 kB]1.235 Get:6 http://deb.de

Blog: Layer 8 Lounge Recap: What DDI Metrics Actually Matter?   TL;DR The community wants alerts driven by a tight set of meaningful metrics, not wall-to-wall dashboards. Top pain points: log volume and cost, inconsistent JSON formats, and the lack of sensible, role-based default alerts. Capacity trends (queues, leases, range headroom) and DHCP “noisy talkers” surfaced as practical early warnings. See questions, answers, and open follow-ups below.  Key Findings  Alerts over dashboards: Day-to-day ops should rely on right-sized alerts; dashboards are for investigations and reviews.  Cut noise at the source: Logging is too verbose/variable; JSON needs normalization and tunable profiles.  Make “base alerts” turnkey: Ship sensible defaults by role (BAM/DNS/DHCP/edge) with global apply.  Watch capacity + chatter: Short-horizon trends and DHCP churn/noisy talkers are reliable early signals.  Operator vs. exec: Operators need thresholds/anomalies; leadership wants summarized health/utiliz

 Introducing LiveAssist — AI Powered Net Ops Video Sections (skip to the listed minute below for specific topics covered)Architecture Review: 1:00 - 6:50  Data Sources Available to LiveAssist: 6:50 - 10:45  Root Cause Analysis: 10:45 - 14:16 AI Dashboard: 14:16 - 15:58 LiveAssist for WAN Capacity and Network Analysis: 15:58 - 17:37 Demo: 17:37 - 58:24  Q&A: 58:24 - 101:40