Hosts, formerly referred to as on-prem hosts, are physical or virtual appliances on which you run BloxOne services according to your license entitlements. Depending on your network infrastructure and how you want to implement hosts, you can deploy them by using Infoblox-provided hardware and OVA packages or via a bare-metal deployment and other supported open platforms. To ensure a successful host deployment, set up your environment according to the BloxOne Connectivity and Service Requirements.
For information about different methods in deploying hosts, see Deploying hosts.
The Hosts page of the Cloud Services Portal displays a list of deployed hosts. You can toggle among the following views by clicking the icons on the upper right hand corner of the page.
Card view
Table view
Map view
Displayed Field | Description |
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Name | The host’s name. |
Host Status | The host’s status, as follows:
You can expand the panel and view detailed information about the errors. For more information, see Viewing Detailed Host Information. |
Host Type | The host’s type:
For example, if your host is a physical appliance, then its type is BloxOne Appliance, the bare-metal container is BloxOne Container, and the bare OVA VM is BloxOne VM. When you use filters to locate specific on-prem hosts, you can select the following subtypes:
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Version # | The version of the platform currently running on the host. |
Serial Number | The serial number of the host (physical or virtual). |
Options | Click the … icon to display the following options:
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Expand/Collapse | Click the down arrow to expand the panel and see detailed information about the host. For more information, see Viewing Host Information. Click the up arrow to collapse the panel. |
When you toggle to the table view, the Hosts page can display some or all of the following fields. By clicking the hamburger menu next to the fields, you have the flexibility to select or deselect the fields (including associated tags) as well as their order to be displayed in the table view.
Host Name: The host’s name.
Status: The host status, as follows:
Online: The host is online, and both the platform and application management are running properly.
Pending: This status applies to BloxOne physical appliances only. Pending means the host has not been physically connected yet.
Awaiting Approval: This applies to BloxOne physical appliances only. When the host is in this state, it is awaiting approval or denial to establish a connection to BloxOne Clould. You can approve or deny the host connection based on your business requirements. The host status changes to Online when you approve the connection and to Denied when you deny the connection.
Degraded: Either the platform or application management is in error when either one is not functioning properly.
Error: Any of the platform or application-management applications are not functioning properly.
Platform Management: The status of the platform management. You can expand this section in the right panel and view the following information:
Status: The current deployment status of your host. For new non-NIOS deployments, this field displays Upgrading as the status and the Message field displays the installation progress.
Error Message: BloxOne performs health checks on platform components and displays relevant messages for the current status. For details about the health check messages, see Health Check Messages for Hosts. For new non-NIOS deployments, the following table describes the corresponding Status and Message for the current deployment.
Version: The version of your host platform.
Status Changed: The timestamp when the last status changed.
Status | Message | Update Milestone |
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Upgrading | Initializing host | Initial connection with BloxOne Cloud |
| Updating system | Updating OS |
| Downloading infrastructure | Downloading BloxOne infrastructure |
| Starting infrastructure | Completing installation of infrastructure |
| Downloading services | Downloading services and waiting for the host to go online |
Application Management: This section displays information about the application that is current running on your host. BloxOne performs health checks on platform components and displays relevant messages for the current status. For details about the health check messages, see Health Check Messages for Hosts.
Type: The host type. This field can display one of the following: BloxOne Appliance, BloxOne Container, BloxOne VM, CNIOS, NIOS, NIOS HA, and Not Available. For example, if your host is a physical appliance, the host type is BloxOne Appliance, bare-metal container is BloxOne Container, and OVA VM is BloxOne VM.
Version: The version of the agent that is currently running on the host.
Serial Number: The serial number of a physical appliance. For virtual appliances, this displays N/A, and you can look up the serial number through the VM console.
Description: Additional information about the host.
Host IP Address: The IP address of the host. The current release supports only IPv4 addresses.
OPHID: The auto-generated unique ID for the host.
NAT IP Address: The IP address of the NAT (Network Address Translation) for the host.
Location Time/Time Zone: The current time and time zone of the host at its location.
IP Space: The IP space in which the host IP resides.
Created At: The timestamp when the host was created, in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss time zone format.
When you toggle to the map view, the Cloud Services Portal displays a world map that indicates the locations of your hosts (using the red location icon), as illustrated below.
Only hosts with geolocations appear on the map. Hosts without geolocations are listed in the left lower corner of the map. You can click a location icon to zoom into host locations within that region. You can even drill down to the street level to locate specific hosts by clicking the location icon.
The number under a location icon indicates the number of deployed hosts (both virtual and physical) within that specific location. For example, if a location icon has a number of 187, there are a total of 187 hosts deployed at that location. You can click the icon to drill down to the next level to view more precise locations for the hosts.
You can also do the following:
Perform a local search to view hosts based on your filtering criteria; and you can page through the results. BloxOne supports the following fields for local search on the Hosts page: Name, OPHID, Host IP Address, and Serial Number.
Local search for Serial Number is applicable only for Appliance and CNIOS host type.
Click the Sort by drop-down menu to sort the list of hosts by available fields, such as Created, Host Name, Host State, and Host Type.
You can also do the following on this page: