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Coming Soon to Universal DDI

Owned by Sri Raghu
Last updated: Jan 10, 2025 by Shirly Tsang
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This topic includes upcoming features and enhancements for Infoblox Universal DDI and NIOS DDI. 

Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Feature Updates

Release Target: Late January

Insight for Dangling CNAMEs: The new "state" attribute automatically identifies stale DNS and IPAM records that lack asset associations, improving security and compliance, while reducing administrative work.

Cloud Discovery for Organization Units (Amazon Web Services) and Folders (Google Cloud Platform): You can now easily select Organization Units for AWS and Folders for GCP to automatically include all the current and future accounts and projects into the asset inventory. 

Basic 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.

Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Feature Updates

Release Target: Late January

DNS Record Classification Monitor: Universal DDI now provides real-time monitoring of key DNS categories, highlighting policy violations or areas that need attention. Monitored categories will include dangling records, abandoned records, and untrusted records. Real-time monitoring provides clear, actionable insights for more efficient and streamlined analysis and management.

Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers: This enhancement allows you to configure and send DNS query and response and DHCP lease logs to an external syslog server for further analysis. It is configured at the Global DHCP and DNS level and fully supports new and existing deployments.

Python Client: The new python client for Universal DDI will simplify interactions with 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 is a set of modules and plugins to manage the DDI resources (DNS, DHCP, IP addresses) through APIs. You can use these modules to perform create, modify, delete and update operations on various DDI objects. You can also deploy NIOS-X hosts with this new Ansible module.

Manage GCP Cloud Resolver Endpoints and Forwarding Rules: Universal DDI will soon support discovering and managing cloud resolver endpoints for Google Cloud Platform. You can also configure forwarding rules from the Infoblox Portal to define how and where queries are routed in your hybrid, multi-cloud architecture. This centralization will reduce configuration errors, streamline DNS rule changes, and provide network visibility, saving time and reducing complexity for network administrators.

NIOS: Plug-In Updates

Release Target: Late January

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 your 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 workload, applications and testing. This also introduces an Ansible VLAN module to simplify creating, assigning, deleting and updating VLAN objects and networks and provides enhanced visibility into VLANs and ranges and 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: This Python Client upgrade increases error reporting visibility by providing an additional log displaying the complete error response from remote Web API (WAPI) calls. The enhancement provides visibility into the complete exception and error response which aids triage and enables faster issue resolution. 

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Please note that future functionality and releases described in this communication are subject to change.