The NIOS 8.6 release includes the following new features and enhancements:
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Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a virtual appliance designed for deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, an infrastructure as a service that is offered by Oracle. The virtual appliance enables you to deploy large, robust, manageable, and cost-effective Infoblox Grids. The NIOS virtual appliance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure functions as a hardware virtual machine guest on the Linux system. It provides integrated, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services. It also provides a framework for integrating all components of the modular Infoblox solution. Currently, only CP-V2205 is supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This appliance runs only as a Grid member; you cannot deploy it as a Grid Master or Grid Master Candidate. For more information, see the Infoblox Installation Guide vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Enabling and Disabling DNS Traffic Control Objects (RFE-7088)
NIOS 8.6.2 introduces the Enable Traffic Management Objects and the Disable Traffic Management Objects screens using which you can enable or disable individual DNS Traffic Control objects. You can also disable the health monitoring of a particular object to stop performing health checks. You can access the new screens from the Traffic Control panel on the Data Management > DNS > Traffic Control tab. For more information about enabling and disabling DNS Traffic Control objects, see the Managing DNS Traffic Control Objects.
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IB-V5005 support is now extended to vNIOS for Azure and vNIOS for AWS. For detailed information see the Infoblox Installation Guide for vNIOS for AWS and the Installation Guide for vNIOS for Microsoft Azure available at docs.infoblox.com.
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