Step 1 - Normalize your Data
Prior to importing your data, there is a key step of Data Normalization to ensure that information is accurate. If you need assistance with parsing your data prior to importing, 6connect can help with our Data Analyst service. Email us at support@6connect.com for more information.
You can also use off the shelf tools like Microsoft Excel, MySQL, or Google Refine if you intend to take on the task of data cleanup in house.
Data Encoding Format
To ensure correct importing of any special characters, make sure to use UTF-8 encoding for your CSV file!
Step 2 - Prep your Data
You can download Data Import templates from the Dashboard Tab or Data Import Tab. We recommend that you open the CSV import templates and get familiar with the data fields that you can import into the platform.
For Company information you can import relevant data including mailing/billing address information as well as ARIN specific SWIP fields, and specific DNS servers.
For Contact information you can import contact records assigned to a given Company. We support typical fields for this data including Name, multiple email fields, phone numbers as well as Timezone and Role (Roles can be customized from the IPAM Admin Tab).
For IPv4 Block information you can import the following fields:
Allow Subassignments option
When importing the field "Allow Subassignments" - the parameters accepted are "TRUE", "1", "Y", "yes"
Step 3 - Import your Data
Get to the Data Import Tab from the Admin button to import your data. For larger data import runs, feel free to contact 6connect at any time for assistance at support@6connect.com.
BETA FEATURE - Salesforce integration
For Salesforce integration, we have also provided a Beta feature for testing. This Import feature allows you to import Account data from Salesforce by matching to your relevant unique identifier field name.