After setting up the DNS sync groups in NIOS, you can view their detailed information, update certain properties for existing sync groups, or delete the sync groups if necessary as described in the subsequent sections.

Viewing the DNS Sync Groups

To view the configured the sync groups, complete the following steps in Grid Manager:

1. Sign in to Infoblox Grid Manager.

2. From the Grid tab, click the Cloud DNS tab.

3. Grid Manager displays the following information for each sync group in the Grid:

   • Name: The name of the sync group.

   • Status: The current overall status of the sync group. This field can display one of the following status:

     • OFFLINE: No synchronization has started or no sync task has been configured.

     • OK: All synchronization is successful.

     • ERROR: One or more sync tasks failed. You can drill down to the sync task level to find out which sync task has failed. You can also check the syslog for more information about the failure.

     • WARNING: The services are functioning properly. However, there are some issues such as, a sync task may have partially completed, which resulted in a warning. For more information, refer to the syslog.

   • Cloud DNS Credentials: Displays the project ID and user name of the GCP service account of the GCP admin user assigned to a service group. This field is hidden by default.

   • Member: The name of the Grid member on which the synchronization occurs.

   • Disabled: Indicates whether the sync group is disabled or not. This displays true if the sync group is disabled. When you disable a sync group, synchronization for all tasks in the group is disabled but the appliance keeps your configuration intact.

   • Comment: Information about this cloud member.

   • Cloud Service Provider: The cloud platform of the server from which DNS data is being synchronized.

You can also perform the following actions on this tab:

• Click the Add icon to add a new sync group.

• Click the Action icon of a specific sync group to perform the following:

  • Edit: Modify certain properties for the sync group.

  • View sync details: Get details about the sync group in a different dialog box as described in the Viewing Sync Task Details section.

  • Delete: Remove the sync group from the list.

• Create a quick filter to save frequently used filter criteria:

  1. In the filter section, click Show Filter and define filter criteria for the quick filter.

  2. Click Save and complete the configuration In the Save Quick Filter dialog box.
     The appliance adds the quick filter to the quick filter drop-down list in the panel. Note that global filters are prefixed with [G], local filters with [L], and system filters with [S].

• Use filters and the Go to function to narrow down the list. With the autocomplete feature, you can just enter the first few characters of an object name in the Go to field and select the object from the possible matches.

• Sort the data in ascending and descending order by column.

• Print or export the data on this tab.

Viewing Sync Task Details

After you configure a sync group, you can view more details about this group by clicking View sync details from the Action menu..
To view the details of a sync group perform the following steps:

1. From the Grid tab, click the Cloud DNS tab.

2. Click the Action icon next to the selected sync group, and then select View sync details from the menu.

3. The Sync Group Details window displays the following information for the selected sync group:

   • Sync Group Name: The name of the selected sync group.

   • In the SYNC TASKS table, the following information is displayed for each sync task:

     • Name: The name of the sync task.

     • Status: The current status of the sync task. You can hover your mouse over the status to display a tooltip that gives you more information about the status.

     • Disabled: Indicates whether this sync task has been disabled or not.

     • Zone Count: The total number of synchronized Google Cloud DNS managed zones.

     • Interval: Displays how often the synchronization happens for this task.

     • Filter: Displays the zone or a list of zones that you have configured for this sync task. To specify multiple zones, use comma to separate the values. You can use wildcard characters in the filter. For example, you can enter “*abc*, ab?c.com, [a-z].com” in this field.

     • Last Run: The timestamp when this task was last run and synchronized with Google Cloud.

Running a Sync Task Manually

You can manually run individual sync tasks from the Sync Group Details window. Before initiating the sync task, ensure that the Cloud Sync service is started for the member assigned to the sync group whose task you want to initiate. For steps, see Starting and Stopping the Cloud Sync Service.

1. From the Grid tab, click the Cloud DNS tab.

2. Click the Action icon next to the selected sync group, and then select View sync details from the menu.

3. In the Sync Group Details window, click the Action icon next to a sync task and select Run Task Now.
   Synchronization is run for the selected task.
   When a task is in progress, the status shows Running the sync. when the task completes, the Sync completed successfully.

Modifying Sync Groups

To modify an existing sync group, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, click the Cloud DNS tab.

2. In the Cloud DNS Sync Group table, click the Action icon next to the selected sync group, and then select Edit from the menu.

3. On the General tab of the Cloud DNS Sync Group Properties editor, modify the properties as described in the Configuring Sync Groups for Google Cloud DNS Synchronization section.

4. Save the configuration.

Deleting Sync Groups

To delete an existing sync group, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, click the Cloud DNS tab.

2. In the Cloud DNS Sync Group table, select the checkbox of a sync group, and then click the Delete icon.

3. In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

Viewing the DNS Zones in NIOS

To view the data of imported Cloud DNS managed zones in NIOS, perform the following steps:

1. From the Data Management tab > DNS tab > Zones tab > click a DNS view to view the list of zones.
   Grid Manager displays all imported zones in this panel of the zone view page.

   • The name and comment for each zone appear under the Name and Comment fields respectively.

   • The project ID of the GCP project from which a specific zone’s data was synchronized, appears under the Account ID column for each zone after a synchronization of DNS data.

2. You can filter DNS zones by the extensible attribute "DNS Source" = "GCP DNS". To filter:

   1. Click the name of a DNS zone to open its page.

   2. In the filter section, click Show Filter.

   3. To define the criteria, in the drop-down lists, choose DNS Source, the operator as equals, and enter GCP DNS in the same order.

3. To view detailed information about a specific zone, select the zone checkbox, and then click the Edit icon.

4. In the Zone editor, select the Cloud DNS Zone info tab.
   The appliance displays zone properties such as zone name, VPC, hosted zone ID, name server set, name server, and public/private. Note that this read-only data is not used for serving DNS.

Viewing the Resource Records in NIOS

You can view imported DNS data for each DNS resource record in NIOS. If you modify synchronized DNS records, subsequent synchronizations will overwrite the changed data with data from Google Cloud DNS. However, DNS records that you manually create in zones synchronized from Google Cloud DNS are not removed during subsequent synchronizations.
To view the synchronized records:

1. From the Data Management tab -> DNS tab, click the Zones tab.

2. Click a zone name to drill down to the Records tab. Grid Manager displays all the associated records for the selected zone in this panel. Note that the name and TTL value for each record appear under its corresponding fields (Name and TTL) in NIOS.

3. Select a record checkbox and click the Edit icon.