Configuring NIOS Grid Connector

NIOS Grid Connector provides a unified view of both on-premise NIOS Grid deployments and cloud-managed Universal DDI deployments. If you have configured NIOS Grids to communicate with Universal DDI, you can enable the NIOS Grid Connector service on the respective service instances (Grid Manager, Grid Manager Candidate, or standalone appliance) to import certain DNS, DHCP, and IPAM data from the Grids or members to Universal DDI. You can then view the read-only data in the Infoblox Portal, together with other network data. NIOS Grid Connector also allows you to import Microsoft-managed zones and DHCP exclusion range from NIOS into the Infoblox Portal. This capability provides you with a single interface for viewing comprehensive network data for your Infoblox Platform, such as global IP space, subnets, IP addresses, DHCP data, and DNS data. Note that this service can only be enabled on service instances running NIOS 8.5 or higher. 

When NIOS is connected to the Infoblox Portal, the Extended Attributes and other tags are automatically populated to easily identify the service instance that belongs to a particular Grid and the objects imported from NIOS. For more information, see NIOS Tags updated in Infoblox Portal.

You can perform the following actions:

• Establishing Connectivity Between NIOS and Infoblox Portal
• Enabling the NIOS Grid Connector Service
• Disabling the NIOS Grid Connector Service
• Exceptions When Importing NIOS Objects
• NIOS Tags updated in Infoblox Portal
• Objects Imported from NIOS