Deploying NIOS-X Servers for Infoblox Threat Defense

In your hybrid cloud environment, you can deploy DNS forwarding proxy as a service on a NIOS-X server, so you can take advantage of the security features that Infoblox Threat Defense offers. You can deploy DNS forwarding proxies as a service on NIOS-X virtual machines using the Docker or OVA package that Infoblox provides. You can also deploy a DNS forwarding proxy using HTTP Proxy to forward DNS queries to Infoblox Platform. For more information, see Deploying NIOS-X Servers.

Infoblox provides the Docker container and OVA deployment packages, so you can deploy NIOS-X servers in a virtual infrastructure of your choice. NIOS-X virtual hosts are automatically created when you use a join token to connect them to the Infoblox Portal. For more information, see Configuring Join Tokens.

Before you configure a virtual machine as a DNS forwarding proxy, you must first create a join token and use it to authenticate the NIOS-X server, so Infoblox Threat Defense can establish a connection to the server. For information about join tokens and how to manage them, see Configuring Join Tokens.  Once you set up the virtual server using a valid join token, a connection to Infoblox Threat Defense is established, and the server status changes to Active (if the NIOS-X server and all the services running on it are functioning properly). The server is now a fully manageable device, and you can manage it through the Infoblox Portal. 
The following diagram illustrates the provisioning process for DNS forwarding proxies deployed on virtual machines: