This topic includes new features and enhancements for Universal DDI. You can view information about other enhancements and maintenance for Infoblox SaaS products and services in the Infoblox SaaS Release Notes. 

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• Facilitates the setup of a Syslog destination in BloxOne Cloud.
• Facilitates the setup of SOAR Light automations in BloxOne Cloud.
• Facilitates the setup of an HTTP Destination in BloxOne Cloud.

For more information, see Data Connector and Infoblox Ecosystem.

Infoblox Ecosystem now offers support for SOAR Light integrations running in BloxOne Cloud, enabling the automation of Cloud-to-Cloud workflows.

Users have the ability to configure automated workflows, with service instance options specifically for setting up cloud-to-cloud flows. For more information, see  Data Connector and Infoblox Ecosystem.

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Data Connector introduces additional event field options for Atlas Notification settings.

This update introduces a refined traffic flow widget in the Cloud Services Portal that allows users to choose subtypes and event fields seamlessly. For information, see Creating Traffic Flows.

BloxOne DDI – August 9, 2024

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When configuring a Data Connector traffic flow, you now have the option to choose Splunk CIM as the log message format when you configure HTTP as the destination. For information, see Setting Up HTTP.

BloxOne DDI – August 1, 2024

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BloxOne DDI – July 29, 2024 

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NIOS Grid Connector now syncs Forward Name Server Group, and Name Server Group Association to the Cloud Services Portal.

NIOS Grid Connector has been enhanced to sync additional objects from NIOS to the Cloud Services Portal such as Forward Name Server Group and Name Server Group Association. For more information, see Objects Imported from NIOS.

BloxOne DDI supports configuring exceptions during DNSSEC validation.

For more information, see Enabling Signature Validation. 

DNS Traffic Control supports additional record types for load balancing.

DNS Traffic Control now supports SRV, SVCB (Type64), and HTTPS (Type65) for load balancing. For more information, see Configuring DNS Traffic Control.

BloxOne DDI – July 12, 2024 

BloxOne introduces tagging enhancements that restrict tag values displayed during tag addition, application, and filtering to those currently assigned to objects. Additionally, predefined tag values can now be defined through restricted tags, instead of freeform tags. To explicitly add values to a freeform tag, convert the tag to a restricted tag first.

      For more information, see Managing Tags.

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BloxOne enhances the performance and usability of Global Search on the Cloud Services Portal, making it easier and faster for users to find what they need.

Global search includes the following enhancements:

• Users can now start a search by pressing the Enter key after entering key words.
• Quick results will display the top three relevant results.
• Users will see two groups of results: one for Exact Matches and the other for Related Results.
• Exact match results will appear within a second.
• Related results will be visible within a few seconds.

BloxOne DDI – June 20, 2024

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The enhancements are particularly beneficial for administrators managing multiple organizations or sandboxes, simplifying the process of accessing and controlling subsidiary organizational accounts. The enhancements also overhaul the Cloud Services Portal's current account-switching feature by introducing an improved account selection menu that can handle hundreds of organizational accounts and includes a search and filter function for better organizational account management.

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• Administrators managing multiple organizations can set a default account, which is automatically accessed upon the initial connection to the Cloud Services Portal after authentication.
• Administrators are able to specify favorite organizations, which are prominently displayed at the top of the account selection window/menu for quick and easy access.

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Infoblox Data Connector supports forwarding of BloxOne DHCP lease logs to a NIOS reporting destination.

Infoblox Data Connector now allows you to forward BloxOne DHCP lease logs to NIOS reporting, streamlining network administration workflows and enhancing efficiency. For more information, see Configuring Traffic Flows.  

BloxOne DDI – March 22, 2024

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The Cloud Services Portal supports a split view feature for viewing private zones and public zones from Azure.

With the Split View feature, you can serve Azure public hosted zones and private hosted zones from two separate DNS views, enabling split-horizon DNS. For more information, see Enabling Split View.

In the Cloud Services Portal, the AWS and Azure Third-Party DNS Providers features have been moved under Network Discovery.

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• Logs from the Data Connector are now accessible for both viewing and downloading through the Cloud Services Portal.
• The Data Connector has the capability to export service logs to all supported destinations, including integration with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems.

For information, see BloxOne Notifications and Configuring Traffic Flows.

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BloxOne supports host deployment using generation 2 virtual machines on Hyper-V/Azure.

BloxOne now supports generation 2 VMs when you deploy BloxOne hosts in Microsoft Azure. For more information, see Microsoft Azure Deployment.

BloxOne supports adding host tags associated with the Cloud Services Portal during BloxOne host deployments.

When you deploy a BloxOne host, you can add a host tag to the "userdata" file to associate the host with the Cloud Services Portal. For more information, see YML and JSON Templates.

BloxOne supports firmware updates on Dell VEP-1425, Dell VEP-1485, and Infoblox B1-212 hardware appliances.

To upgrade the firmware on Dell VEP-1425, Dell VEP-1485, and Infoblox B1-212 appliances, you can now download firmware upgrades and apply a firmware upgrade script via the debug CLI or a USB flash drive. For more information, see Updating Firmware on Hardware Appliances.

BloxOne host deployment on Google Cloud Portal (GCP) now supports IPv6.

      For information, see Google Cloud Portal (GCP) Deployment.

BloxOne DDI – January 10, 2024

BloxOne DDI now supports importing private zones from Azure DNS as forward zones.

The Cloud Services Portal supports a split view feature for viewing private zones and public zones from AWS Route 53.

With the Split View feature, you can get AWS Route 53 public hosted zones and private hosted zones to be served from two separate DNS views, allowing the capability for Split-horizon DNS. For more information, see Enabling Split View.

BloxOne DDI – December 14, 2023

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BloxOne DDI supports creating DNAME records that can be used to create an alias for an existing domain. Previously, the DNAME record could only be created as a generic record of type DNAME.  With this release, DNAME can be selected as one of the record types under the Record menu. For more information, see Creating a DNAME Record.

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BloxOne DDI now allows the recursive client query limit to be set to a maximum 15000 queries.

BloxOne DDI allows configuring the recursive client query limit up to 15,000 queries, ensuring an optimal level of recursive queries to be processed concurrently by the recursive name server. For more information, see Enabling Recursive Queries.

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Private hosted zones synced from the cloud provider are set up as forward zones on BloxOne host. Queries for domains added as forward zones will be forwarded by the BloxOne host to AWS for resolution, ensuring the most up-to-date data is referenced. For more information, see Importing AWS Private Hosted Zones as Read/Write Forward Zones.

BloxOne DDI allows the configuration of read-only or read-write sync process for third-party cloud providers. 

You can now configure the sync process for third-party cloud providers in read-only or read-write modes via the Cloud Services Portal. For more information, see Configuring Read Only or Read Write Sync.

BloxOne DDI – November 2, 2023

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BloxOne DDI – October 13, 2023

Maintenance Release - DHCP bug fixes and CVE-2023-3341.

This maintenance release includes bug fixes for the DHCP service and update for CVE-2023-3341. 

BloxOne DDI – October 5, 2023

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BloxOne DDI – September 15, 2023

BloxOne DDI now provides MS AD Sync as a service running on a BloxOne host.

You can run the MS AD Sync service on a BloxOne DDI host to migrate DNS and IPAM/DHCP objects from Microsoft Active Directory into the Cloud Services Portal. For more information, see Microsoft Active Directory Integration.

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BloxOne DDI – September 1, 2023

You can now set up BloxOne sandboxes as test environments.

If your business requires a separate BloxOne test environment, you can purchase a BloxOne sandbox and set it up for testing purposes. For more information, see Managing Sandboxes.

BloxOne DDI – August 23, 2023

Maintenance Release - DHCP bug fixes.

This maintenance release includes bug fixes for the DHCP service. 

BloxOne DDI – August 14, 2023

BloxOne Introduces notification enhancements to improve usability.

BloxOne notification includes the following enhancements:

• When you click Notifications on the left navigation panel of the Cloud Services Portal, you can view personal notifications generated for your user account.
• You can click the notification icon at the top of the left navigation to view the 30 latest notifications in the New Notifications panel. The number displayed on the icon indicates the number of notifications you have received within the last three days. 
• You can choose the types of personal notifications you would like to receive. Individual settings do not affect the global or admin settings for other users.

For information on BloxOne notifications, see BloxOne Notifications.

BloxOne DDI – August 11, 2023

You can now set the order of precedence for user-defined DHCP fingerprints.

BloxOne DDI now allows you to set the precedence of user-defined DHCP fingerprints. The rule with the lowest precedence value has the highest priority. For more information, see Creating User Defined DHCP Fingerprints.

BloxOne DDI tracks the IP addresses of hosts in IPAM.

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You can now configure AWS as a Third Party DNS provider with additional configuration options.

BloxOne DDI now allows you to configure Third Party DNS provider through AWS delegated access using Principal and External ID. For more information, see Amazon AWS Route 53.

BloxOne DDI – July 28, 2023

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Third-party DNS providers can now accept credentials and AWS role ARNs, with proper permissions, to discover AWS accounts that contain Route 53 zones and resource records under each sub-account. For more information, see Amazon AWS Route 53.

Infoblox SSO Portal now supports Google Authenticator for multi-factor authentication, in addition to Okta Verify.

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BloxOne Notifications has a new data type for Data Connector

You can provision Data Connector to deliver Cloud Services Portal event notifications such as CPU utilization, new feature announcements, and more, to a SIEM destination. For information, see BloxOne Notifications.

You can now query host statuses using the BloxOne API.

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On May 18, 2023, Infoblox removed the ability to view legacy API keys as part of the process of deprecating these keys (which were replaced by the new API keys in February 2021). Since then, Infoblox identified a set of customers that are still using the legacy API keys. To provide all customers with the best possible experience and support while we complete the transition to the new API keys, the legacy API keys will remain visible and active until the end of July 2023.

BloxOne DDI – June 9, 2023

When you perform a local search in the Manage > Infrastructure section, you can view all the objects on the specific tab (such as the Hosts or Templates tab) based on your filtering criteria; and you can page through the results. This applies to the Hosts, Services, Monitoring, Templates, and Location tabs.

You can now use Global Search to find template objects by Name, Description and Tags.

BloxOne DDI – May 18, 2023

You will no longer be able to view legacy API keys on the Cloud Services Portal. The legacy API keys are also not supported in API calls.

BloxOne DDI – May 12, 2023

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The DNS QPS widget is calibrated to provide more accurate results.

The DNS QPS widget was enhanced for better accuracy. This enhancement includes bug fixes may result in higher QPS results.

BloxOne DDI – May 2, 2023

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BloxOne DDI supports the ability to search across all pages using local search, aggregating the search results into a unified repaginated list. You no longer need to use global search if you are already in a zone or subnet. This allows for quick retrieval of information. For information, see Configuring Subnets, Configuring Address Ranges, and Configuring Fixed Addresses.

Control AAAA Records for IPv4 Clients

Select whether or not the DNS server should respond with AAAA records for requests sent over IPv4. To accomplish this, enable AAAA filtering first, and then compile a list of IPv4 networks and addresses that allow or deny AAAA filtering from the server. For information, see Specifying Queries. 

BloxOne DDI – April 20, 2023

Infoblox BloxOne continuously synchronizes account names with corporate names. If your account name changed over the last few years, the name displayed on the Cloud Services Portal might change. This does not have any other implications on your account: Your configuration and data stay the same.

BloxOne DDI – April 19, 2023

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BloxOne DDI – March 30, 2023

Infoblox introduces the new Routing page on the Cloud Service Portal.

BloxOne routing improves the flexibility, scalability and performance of routing by separating it from the Anycast service into new BGP, OSPF, and RIP services for licensed users who are entitled for Anycast. If you are not currently using Anycast, you will see the new Routing page immediately, and no action is required on your part. If you are currently using Anycast, Infoblox Support will be contacting you to arrange the migration of your Anycast configuration to these new services. For information, see Configuring Routing.

Infoblox BloxOne bare-metal deployment now supports Ubuntu 22.04.

With this release, Infoblox BloxOne supports Ubuntu 22.04 and will continue to support Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04. BloxOne will however stop the official support of Ubuntu 16.04.

BloxOne DDI – March 6, 2023

Infoblox introduces the new Infrastructure page on the Cloud Service Portal. BloxOne Infrastructure provides the separation of infrastructure and services. It integrates status, metrics, and logs into a common viewer, so you can peruse consolidated information about your host infrastructure and services. Your current deployment will automatically migrate to the new Infrastructure page. No action is required on your part.

The following is a list of changes:

• Introduction of the new Manage > Infrastructure page within BloxOne that replaces the Manage > On-Prem Host page. The new page includes tabs for Hosts (new), Join Tokens (existing page - same functionality), Services (new - this is a complete set of deployed services on hosts), and Templates (new).

• The Manage > On-Prem Host page will be removed.

• New viewer for hosts and services accessible through the General Information link on Hosts or Services. The viewer presents detailed information about a specific host or service, including network configuration, status, notices (if any), metrics (for a period up to 30 days), and logs (for a period up to 30 days).

• The separation of networking using interface labels makes separating duties between host management and service management much easier.

• While service configurations reside where individual pages are in the Manage menu, you can refer to the configurations in Manage > Infrastructure > Services instead of associating the configurations with hosts. This allows for easier redeployment of the service when infrastructure has to be replaced.

• Simplification of status with dedicated status for host and service instead of mixing the two together (this means no more “Review Details” status).

• Advanced filtering is available separately on Hosts and Services (for example, you can use filters to find all services that are not online or all DHCP services across all hosts).

• Adjusted the service deployment dialogs.

• Host deployment works the same way as the On-Prem Host page by using a join token for virtual and customer-provided physical appliance or a serial number for Infoblox-provided physical appliance. Detailed configuration is adjusted to work with advanced interface labels.

• Use the new Template functionality to capture a snapshot of the service deployment of a host and apply the same service deployment to multiple hosts (for example, you can use one template and apply it to seven offices or use the same deployment for 263 stores). 

• Support of multiple interfaces on hosts will enable several dedicated network interfaces on each host. Services (DHCP, DNS, DNS Forwarding Proxy, Data Connector, NTP) can be deployed using a specific interface, which can differ between services. This allows individual services to work within separate networks.

• Support for alternative network connections between a host and the Cloud Services Portal. Two or more interfaces can be configured as WAN connections to the Cloud Services Portal. Priority of connections is supported for cost and performance reasons.

• Display of hosts in a map view based on the NatIP address of the host will provide a better understanding of the infrastructure deployment around the world and could help identify region-based issues.

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Through the Device UI, you can enable or disable a secure terminal connection on port 2022 between your BloxOne host and the newly implemented debugging CLI. When you experience issues related to cloud connectivity or BloxOne platform image deployment, you can troubleshoot those issues through the debugging CLI. 

The Cloud Services Portal introduces the “Upcoming Releases” section that displays feature announcements for upcoming BloxOne releases.  

In addition to “What’s New,” the landing page of the Cloud Services Portal now includes an “Upcoming Releases” section that displays upcoming feature announcements for future BloxOne releases.

BloxOne DDI – January 27, 2023

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Multiple indexers can now be provisioned to a Splunk destination allowing for optimum load distribution. For more information, see . For more information, see Setting Up Splunk.

The BloxOne customer service portal now displays the serial number for all virtual appliance, on-prem deployments such as VMware, Azure, AWS, KVM.

 Serial numbers of all virtual, on-prem deployments for VMware, Azure, AWS, and KVM  can be viewed in the BloxOne customer service portal.  For more information, see https://support.infoblox.com.

BloxOne DDI – July 7, 2022

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This BloxOne release provides documented API for downloading service logs (such as the DNS query log and DHCP log). For more information, see https://csp.infoblox.com/apidoc.

BloxOne DDI – July 8, 2021

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• Lifecycle management: You can now create, delete, disable, and enable keys.

• Key expiration: A user-specified expiration can be defined at the time you create the key to determine the duration of key validity.

• Keys names: You can name the key to easily identify it in the future.

Existing API keys, called "legacy" keys, continue to be supported, and are similar to interactive keys, yet limited to legacy and existing functionality with new support for the disable, enable, and delete functions. 

The Cloud Services Portal now retains filter configuration you have applied to a page, so you can pick up right where you left the page without spending extra time to reconfigure your filters when you access the page again.

When you apply a filter or filters to a Cloud Services Portal page, the filter configuration stays intact the next time you access the page.

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If you have configured NIOS Grids to communicate with BloxOne DDI, you can enable the NIOS Grid Connector service on the respective on-prem hosts to import certain IPAM data from the Grids to BloxOne DDI. You can then view the read-only IPAM data in the Cloud Services Portal, together with other network data. This capability provides you with a single interface for viewing comprehensive network data for your BloxOne Cloud infrastructure, such as global IP space, subnets, IP addresses, and DHCP lease data. This service can only be enabled on on-prem hosts running NIOS 8.5 or higher.

DNS Query/Response Logging is enabled with this release

Logging for DNS query and response is enabled by default. You can download the logs through the Cloud Services Portal. Depending on your business requirements, you can also disable logging.

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• Role-Based Access Control
  

This release of BloxOne Cloud provides improved access control for customers with introduction of user groups, roles, and permissions. Assigning individual users to different user groups will change the permissions for the user. To make this process easier, Infoblox provides a set of default user groups corresponding to the "Administrator" and "User" roles, and adds new user groups for BloxOne DDI Administrators, BloxOne TD Administrators, BloxOne DDI Users, BloxOne TD Users, and Account Management. To keep existing access for users, no action is necessary. Infoblox will automatically assign existing users to the Administrators and User user groups based on their current access.

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New Features

• DHCP Fingerprints
  

This release of BloxOne DDI utilizes DHCP fingerprint detection to identify IPv4 mobile devices such as laptop computers, tablets, and smart phones, on your network. Using DHCP fingerprint detection is an efficient way to perform system identification. You can use DHCP fingerprint detection to track devices on your network and plan for future growth by accessing trending information such as the number of Apple iPhones versus that of Android phones that are on your network.

• DNS Anycast Addressing
  

BloxOne DDI provides multiple Anycast IPv4 addresses to improve resiliency and reliability. In potential scenarios where one of the public IP addresses becomes unreachable in BloxOne DDI, additional configured Anycast IPv4 addresses can be added to the Anycast configuration.

• IP Address Reservations
  

This release of BloxOne DDI supports IP address reservations. You can create a reservation as a static IP address for future use. You can reserve this static IP address and assign it to a client in the future.

• Visualization of Abandoned Leases
  

You can now see all the abandoned leases in the visualization view.

• Support for Multiple Primaries in DNS Server Groups
  

In this release of BloxOne DDI, you can include a group of primary name servers, a group of secondary name servers, nested DNS server groups, primary DNS servers, and/or secondary DNS servers in a DNS server group. This flexibility reduces the number of DNS server groups that you must manage, and it allows you to apply different configurations to different scenarios.

• Audit Log Enhancements
  

You can now see the resource type of the object created, modified, or deleted when viewing the audit log. You can also limit the data displayed to only the resource type(s) you want to review.

BloxOne DDI – July 13, 2019

New Features

• On-Prem Host Management
  

This release of BloxOne DDI introduces ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning) that streamlines the deployment of on-prem hosts. You no longer need to pre-provision or create on-prem hosts and copy API keys through the Cloud Services Portal while deploying BloxOne appliances. BloxOne DDI now automatically detects the BloxOne physical appliances that you purchase through Infoblox. It also uses a secure join token mechanism to authenticate and deploy virtual appliances that you configure in your VM environments.

• Notifications
  

The Cloud Services Portal displays notifications for specific events, such as license expiration or CPU usage. Infoblox implements deduplication for notifications to prevent notification floods, which identifies identical notifications and sets a grace period to stop duplicated notifications before sending them again.

BloxOne DDI – April 27, 2019

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This release introduces the support of service logs. You can now configure BloxOne DDI to display or export DNS and DHCP logs from your on-prem hosts. Depending on your service log configuration, you can view the logs in a separate browser window or download the log files (in .log format) for future reference.

BloxOne DDI – February 28, 2019

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When you create a fixed address, you can configure BloxOne DDI to automatically assign the next available IP to the fixed address. The next available IP address is the first unused address in the subnet in which you configure the fixed address.

• Using Tags

BloxOne DDI provides tags that you use to identify and group objects in your address spaces. A tag is a label that consists of a key and a value that you define. Tags are useful when you want to categorize DNS and DHCP objects by specific purposes, such as by location, so you can easily identify them based on the tags you assign to them.

• Public API Support

The Cloud Services Portal provides a unified interface for displaying available public API calls. You can access API calls for BloxOne DDI through the Cloud Services Portal.

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