Hosts, formerly referred to as NIOS-X servers (formerly hosts or on-prem hosts, ) are physical or virtual appliances servers on which you run BloxOne Infoblox Platform services according to your license entitlements. Depending on your network infrastructure and how you want to implement hostsNIOS-X servers, you can deploy them by using Infoblox-provided hardware and OVA packages or via a bare-metal deployment and other supported open platforms. To ensure a successful host server deployment, set up your environment according to the BloxOne NIOS-X Server Connectivity and Service Requirements.
For information about the different methods in deploying hostsservers, see Deploying hostsNIOS-X Servers.
The Hosts Servers page of the Cloud Services Infoblox Portal displays a list of deployed hostsNIOS-X servers. You can toggle among the following views by clicking the icons on the upper right hand corner of the page.
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The default card view displays the following information for each hostNIOS-X server: Displayed Field | Description |
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Name | The host’s server name. | Host Server Status | The host’s server status, as follows: Online: The host server is online, and both the platform and application management are running properly. Pending: This status applies to BloxOne NIOS-X physical appliances only. Pending means the host server has not been physically connected yet. Awaiting Approval: This applies to BloxOne NIOS-X physical appliances only. When the host server is in this state, it is awaiting approval or denial to establish a connection to BloxOne ClouldInfoblox Platform. You can approve or deny the host server connection based on your business requirements. The host server status changes to Online when you approve the connection and to Denied when you deny the connection. Degraded: Either the platform or application management is in error when either one is not functioning properly. Error: Any of the platform or application-management applications are not functioning properly.
You can expand the panel and view detailed information about the errors. For more information, see Viewing Detailed Host Server Information. | Host Server Type | The host’s server type: BloxOne Appliance BloxOne Container BloxOne VMNIOS-X (BloxOne) Physical Server NIOS-X (BloxOne) Container NIOS-X (BloxOne) Virtual Server CNIOS NIOS NIOS HA Not Available
For example, if your host server is a physical applianceserver, then its type is BloxOne Appliance NIOS-X (BloxOne) Physical Server, the bare-metal container is NIOS-X (BloxOne) Container, and the bare OVA VM is BloxOne VM NIOS-X (BloxOne) Virtual Server. When you use filters to locate specific on-prem hostsservers, you can select the following subtypes: For BloxOne Appliance NIOS-X (BloxOne) Physical Server: All Appliance Server Types, B1-105, B1-212, VEP1425,or VEP1485 For BloxOne VM NIOS-X (BloxOne) Virtual Server: All VM Virtual Server Types, VMware, Azure, KVM, KVM OpenStack, or AWS
| Version # | The version of the platform currently running on the hostserver. | Serial Number | The serial number of the host server (physical or virtual). | Options | Click the … icon to display the following options: Apply config updates immediately: Choose this to apply the host’s server’s configuration updates immediately. General Information: Choose this to view the host’s server’s information. Edit: Choose this to modify the host’s server’s configuration. Create Template: Choose this to take a snapshot of the host’s server’s configuration and apply the template to multiple hosts servers that should use the same configuration. For information, see Configuring Templates.Copy API Access Key: Choose this to copy the API access key. Approve: Choose this to approve the host server connection to BloxOne CloudInfoblox Platform. Deny: Choose this to deny the host server connection to BloxOne CloudInfoblox Platform. Disconnect: Choose this to disconnect the host server from BloxOne CloudInfoblox Platform. Refresh Status: Choose this to refresh the host server status. Replace: Choose this to replace this host server with another hostserver. Remove: Choose this to remove the hostserver. Troubleshoot: Click this and choose one of the following to troubleshoot your hostserver: Traceroute, DNS Test, Traffic Capture, NTP Test, or Restart Hostserver. Local Access: Choose this to enable local access, so you can use the Device UI to make configuration changes or troubleshoot your host server without disconnecting it from BloxOne Cloudthe Infoblox Platform. For information, see Managing Local Access for HostsServers.
| Expand/Collapse | Click the down arrow to expand the panel and see detailed information about the hostserver. For more information, see Viewing Host Server Information. Click the up arrow to collapse the panel. |
When you toggle to the table view, the Hosts Servers page can display some or all of the following fields. By clicking the hamburger menu next to the fields, you have the flexibility to select or deselect the fields (including associated tags) as well as their order to be displayed in the table view. Host server Name: The host’s server’s name. Status: The host server status, as follows: Online: The host server is online, and both the platform and application management are running properly. Pending: This status applies to BloxOne NIOS-X physical appliances servers only. Pending means the host server has not been physically connected yet. Awaiting Approval: This applies to BloxOne NIOS-X physical appliances servers only. When the host server is in this state, it is awaiting approval or denial to establish a connection to BloxOne ClouldInfoblox Platform. You can approve or deny the host server connection based on your business requirements. The host server status changes to Online when you approve the connection and to Denied when you deny the connection. Degraded: Either the platform or application management is in error when either one is not functioning properly. Error: Any of the platform or application-management applications are not functioning properly.
Platform Management: The status of the platform management. You can expand this section in the right panel and view the following information: Status: The current deployment status of your hostserver. For new non-NIOS deployments, this field displays Upgrading as the status and the Message field displays the installation progress. Error Message: BloxOne Infoblox Platform performs health checks on platform components and displays relevant messages for the current status. For details about the health check messages, see Health Check Messages for HostsServers. For new non-NIOS deployments, the following table describes the corresponding Status and Message for the current deployment. Version: The version of your host server platform. Status Changed: The timestamp when the last status changed.
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Upgrading | Initializing hostserver | Initial connection with BloxOne CloudInfoblox Platform | | Updating system | Updating OS | | Downloading infrastructure | Downloading BloxOne Infoblox Platform infrastructure | | Starting infrastructure | Completing installation of infrastructure | | Downloading services | Downloading services and waiting for the host server to go online |
Application Management: This section displays information about the application that is current currently running on your hostserver. BloxOne Infoblox Platform performs health checks on platform components and displays relevant messages for the current status. For details about the health check messages, see Health Check Messages for HostsServers. Type: The host server type. This field can display one of the following: BloxOne Appliance, BloxOne Container, BloxOne NIOS-X Server, NIOS-X (BloxOne) Container, NIOS-X (BloxOne) VM, CNIOS, NIOS, NIOS HA, and Not Available. For example, if your host server is a physical appliance, the host server type is BloxOne Appliance NIOS-X (BloxOne) Physical Server, bare-metal container is NIOS-X (BloxOne) Container, and OVA VM is BloxOne VMNIOS-X (BloxOne) Virtual Server. Version: The version of the agent that is currently running on the hostserver. Serial Number: The serial number of a physical appliance. For virtual appliances, this displays N/A, and you can look up the serial number through the VM console. Description: Additional information about the hostserver. Host Server IP Address: The IP address of the hostserver. The current release supports only IPv4 addresses. OPHID: The auto-generated unique ID for the hostserver. NAT IP Address: The IP address of the NAT (Network Address Translation) for the hostserver. Location Time/Time Zone: The current time and time zone of the host server at its location. IP Space: The IP space in which the host server IP resides. Created At: The timestamp when the host server was created, in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss time zone format.
When you toggle to the map view, the Cloud Services Infoblox Portal displays a world map that indicates the locations of your hosts servers (using the red location icon), as illustrated below.  Image ModifiedOnly hosts servers with geolocations appear on the map. Hosts Servers without geolocations are listed in the left lower corner of the map. You can click a location icon to zoom into host server locations within that region. You can even drill down to the street level to locate specific hosts servers by clicking the location icon. The number under a location icon indicates the number of deployed hosts servers (both virtual and physical) within that specific location. For example, if a location icon has a number of 187, there are a total of 187 hosts servers deployed at that location. You can click the icon to drill down to the next level to view more precise locations for the hostsservers. |
You can also do the following:
Perform a local search to view hosts servers based on your filtering criteria; and you can page through the results. BloxOne Infoblox supports the following fields for local search on the Hosts Servers page: Name, OPHID, Host Server IP Address, and Serial Number.
Local search for Serial Number is applicable only for Appliance and CNIOS host server type.
Click the Sort by drop-down menu to sort the list of hosts servers by available fields, such as Created, Host Server Name, Host Server State, and Host server Type.
You can also do the following on this page:
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