Coming Soon to Universal DDI

This topic includes upcoming features and enhancements for Infoblox Universal DDI and NIOS DDI. 

Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: DNS Record Classification Monitor and Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers

Coming Soon: Mid-to-Late February

DNS Record Classification Monitor: Universal DDI will provide real-time, centralized monitoring and insights across key DNS categories in AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premises environments. DNS Record Classification monitors multiple record types, including dangling, abandoned and untrusted DNS records to deliver the following benefits:

• Enhanced Security: Dangling DNS records are detected to prevent subdomain hijacking, and abandoned or untrusted records are identified to reduce attack surfaces vulnerable to phishing, spoofing, and unauthorized access.

• Improved Efficiency: Streamlines DNS record handling to reduce errors and simplify troubleshooting

• Lower Costs: Unused or lingering resources are identified and eliminated to reduce unnecessary expenses, allowing organizations to decommission obsolete DNS records and optimize cloud resource allocation.

Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers: This enhancement will allow you to configure and send DNS query and response and DHCP lease logs to an SIEM for further analysis. By eliminating the need to send these logs through the Universal DDI cloud service, you can save on Reporting Tokens.  It can be configured at the Global DHCP and DNS levels and fully supports new and existing deployments

Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Python Client, Ansible IPAM Collection, and GCP Cloud Resolver

Now Available

Python Client: The new Python Client for Universal DDI simplifies interactions with the Infoblox Portal via API, providing a preconfigured set of commonly used functions to manage DNS resources, create discovery jobs for on-premises and cloud resources, manage IP addresses, and configure DHCP options.

Ansible IPAM Collection: The new Ansible Collection for Universal DDI replaces the previous B1DDI collection, providing a set of modules and plug-ins to manage DNS, DHCP, and IP address (DDI) resources through APIs. You can use these modules to perform, create, modify, delete, and update operations on various DDI objects and deploy NIOS-X servers.

Manage GCP Cloud Resolver Endpoints and Forwarding Rules: Universal DDI now supports the discovery and management of cloud resolver endpoints for the Google Cloud Platform, in addition to the existing support for AWS and Azure. This feature enables the configuration of forwarding rules from the Infoblox Portal to define how and where queries are routed in your hybrid, multi-cloud architecture. This level of centralization reduces configuration errors, streamlines DNS rule changes, and provides clear network visibility while saving time and reducing complexity for network administrators.

Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Discovery Ping Sweep and Insight for Zombie Resource Utilization

Now Available

Discovery Ping Sweep: In addition to existing discovery methods, you can now automate the discovery of active IP addresses in your network infrastructure using ping sweep, ensuring that your IPAM data remains current and accurate.

Insight for Zombie Resource Utilization: The new zombie asset classification identifies low CPU utilization on assets across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This insight helps in right-sizing CPU resource assignments, optimizing resource allocations, and reducing costs. 

NIOS: Plug-In Updates

Now Available

Terraform IPAM Plug-In 2.9.0: This NIOS Plug-In adds DNS Traffic Control (DTC) support for Terraform by streamlining a combination of configurations and scripts to improve user experience and enable application availability and performance in Terraform workloads. 

Ansible IPAM Plug-In 1.8.0: The Ansible NIOS Plug-In 1.8.0 adds a new Admin User Module to create and manage local users and passwords for workloads, applications, and testing. This enhancement also introduces an Ansible VLAN module to simplify creating, assigning, deleting, and updating VLAN objects and networks and to provide enhanced visibility into VLANs and ranges, as well as access to all fields supported by the Web API (WAPI).

VMware Plug-In 6.2.0: The new VMware Plug-In enables IPAM to work seamlessly with the latest version of Aria for both Universal DDI and all existing NIOS VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows. 

Python Client 0.7.0: The Python Client upgrade increases error reporting visibility by providing an additional log displaying the complete error response from remote Web API (WAPI) calls. This enhancement provides visibility into the complete exception and error response, which aids triage and ensures faster issue resolution. 

Related Pages

• Infoblox SaaS Release Notes

• What’s New in Infoblox Universal DDI