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This procedure creates a custom DNS zone on the Grid Master. To create the custom DNS zone on a Grid member, see Setting up a Grid Member as the API Proxy.

To use the API Proxy through NIOS, you configure the Grid's Amazon API support by defining a custom DNS zone for your API Proxy. The new zone contains an A record and at least one CNAME alias. An A (address) record is a DNS resource record that maps a domain name (in this case, the API Proxy's FQDN) to an IPv4 address. You then use the CNAME records to assign each AWS service endpoint to the API Proxy's FQDN.
You must define a forward-mapping zone for the API Proxy.
Consider a use case where you want to use the API Proxy to send API directives to two different AWS regional service endpoints:

ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com

ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

To use the Proxy to issue API calls to more than one AWS service endpoint, you need to use fully-qualified domain
names for your API Proxy configuration. You begin by creating a new zone that will be authoritative for all API Proxy operations in your Grid.

  1. Log in to Grid Manager, and do the following:
  2. From the Data Management tab, select the DNS tab, expand the Toolbar, and then click Add -> Zone -> Add Authoritative Zone.
  3. In the Add Authoritative Zone wizard, click Add an authoritative forward-mapping zone and then click Next.
  4. Specify the following:
    • Name: Enter the domain name for the new zone. Omit the trailing period (" . ") that signifies the root zone.
      As an example, enter the name "api-proxy" to ensure that the new zone is easily identifiable.
    • Comment: Enter a descriptive comment about the zone.

5. Click Next to continue in the wizard:

    • Select Usethissetofnameservers, and then click the Add icon and choose AddGridPrimary. If you have only a single appliance, such as the Grid Master or a single Cloud Platform appliance, clicking the Add icon opens the AddGridPrimary panel.
    • In the AddGridPrimary panel, select the name servers for the new zone. If no member is displayed, click Select to specify the Grid member or Grid Master. As the Grid Primary for this zone, you select the appliance acting as the AWS API Proxy. When there are multiple members, Grid Manager displays the MemberSelector dialog box, from which you select the primary name server for the zone.
    • Click Add to add the selected appliance to the list of primary name servers for the zone.

Note

For information about selecting a primary DNS server, refer to Specifying a Primary Server in the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.


6. Save the configuration. Click Restart if it appears at the top of the page.

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