DDI Central for Microsoft DNS servers
- Setup new servers or discover existing ones: Easily set up new Microsoft DNS servers or discover and integrate your existing ones with DDI Central. Simplify DNS management and monitoring of your network infrastructure from a unified platform.
- DNS Zone Editor: Manage your DNS zones effortlessly with DDI Central's intuitive DNS Zone Editor. Create, modify, and delete DNS zones and records with a user-friendly interface designed for efficiency and accuracy.
- Dynamic DNS: Program your DHCP server to lease out IP addresses for dynamic domains, it automatically updates DNS records in response to these changes, maintaining consistent network connectivity and reliability.
- Granular DNS query control: Optimize the security and performance of your DNS infrastructure with customizable query resolution policies. Tailor the way your DNS servers respond to queries, improving performance and ensuring compliance with your network policies.
- Response rate limiting policies: Boost your DNS firewall with custom response rate limiting policies. Protect your DNS servers from potential abuse and amplification attacks by controlling the rate of responses to incoming queries.
- Third-party DNS migrations: Simplify the migration of DNS records from third-party providers to your Microsoft DNS servers managed through DDI Central. Our streamlined process ensures a smooth transition with minimal disruption to your network services.
DDI Central for Microsoft DHCP servers
- Reliable network segmentation and management: Named segmentation of scopes provides detailed visibility into each segment’s inventory, objectives, and policies via DHCP options, ensuring tighter control. This granularity helps identify and respond to suspicious activities quickly and guides administrators during incidents or capacity issues. In a security breach, segmentation limits the impact, preventing it from spreading across the entire network.
- Cohesive IP address plan: Automates structured and efficient allocation of IP addresses across the network. Tracks and provisions all devices, including non-microsoft legacy, host machines, critical devices, IoT, and BYOD, without any manual intervention. Converges all IP-enabled devices in your organization—each requiring custom policies—under a common IP plan, interconnecting them to increase productivity and collaborations.
- Support for high-density connections: The DHCP Scope Manager simplifies DHCP management by segmenting and streamlining the design, deployment, and administration of IP topologies, making it easier for organizations to expand and adapt their networks to high volume of devices as they join the network.
- Custom DHCP policies: Program your DHCP server with named policies to recognize devices and enforce specific configurations without isolating them into separate IP address spaces. This ensures each client or group of clients receives appropriate network settings, providing greater control over DHCP services.
- Advanced DHCP filtering: Filters configured for each Microsoft DHCP server control which devices are allowed or denied DHCP service based on their MAC addresses and other properties.
IPAM for Microsoft DNS and DHCP servers with DDI Central
- IPAM centric data validation: Synchronize data across the three critical network services, positioning IPAM as the network source of truth (NSoT), to ensure effective data validation and cohesive network operation.
- IP lease history analysis: Track the lifecycle of IP addresses for faster triage, improved change management, prioritization of network issues, root cause analysis, and effective troubleshooting.
- IP identity mapping: Connects host identities to IP addresses over time with rich metadata including host names, MAC addresses, hardware data, availability status, DNS records, and DNS query analytics. This comprehensive inventory helps organizations break down data silos ensuring network data is consistent, contextualized, and accurate.
- Advanced scope monitoring: Analyze precise visual snapshots of your IPv4 and IPv6 scopes for meticulous management of IP address allocation and usage. Quickly grasp the visual breakdown of IP addresses within the scope based on their availability status, capacity thresholds, ensuring effective capacity planning and resource optimization.
- Dual stack IP management: Supports both IPv4 and IPv6 address spaces, providing a comprehensive view and management capabilities for dual stack environments. This integration ensures that both address types are managed cohesively within a single system.
Why choose DDI Central for your Microsoft DNS and DHCP servers?
- Agentless connection and management: Take control of all your Microsoft Windows DNS and DHCP servers from a single interface using the DDI Central console. Utilizing WinRM authentication, this setup provides continuous visibility without requiring additional software agents, thereby reducing complexity and overhead. Apply global settings to all your servers with just a couple of clicks, avoiding the hassle of hopping from server to server.
- Pared back navigation with a straightforward UI: DDI Central's sleek, intuitive UI ensures ease of use by eliminating deep and cluttered navigation. Essential fields are placed upfront, guiding you through relevant paths without unnecessary layers. Built-in validation helps admins make error-free configurations quickly and efficiently, reducing time and effort.
- Seamless Microsoft DNS and DHCP server discovery: Automates the discovery process, capturing, cataloging, and consolidating all your zone configurations, scope configurations, IP address plans, and IP address inventory into the DDI Central console for easy management.
- High scalability: Extend your network to any scale with distributed facilities connected to your core network. Manage each network facility as a separate cluster using DDI Central's modular design. This approach ensures seamless adaptability and robust communication across remote locations and cloud environments as your network expands.
- Internalized IPAM for each cluster: Ensure tailored management and enhanced control by providing each DDI cluster with its own dedicated IP address inventory and plan. This approach simplifies administration, optimizes resource allocation, and reduces the risk of conflicts across different network domains.
- Unified visibility: Gain holistic yet deeper visibility from a single-pane view of all the DDI components in your network infrastructure. Realize automated syncing of DDI components.
- Centralized control: Consolidate and take complete control over the planning and administration of all Microsoft DNS, DHCP, and IP configurations through a unified intuitive interface, eliminating the need for complex interfaces or disparate tools.
- Built-in failover support: High availability of DNS and DHCP services with built-in multiple primary and multiple secondary redundant auto-failover setups guarantees business continuity in the event of infrastructure failure.
- Security audits: Gain a real-time snapshot of who accessed what and when, uncover valuable insights into user activities, enhance accountability, detect unauthorized access, and ensure compliance with security policies.
- Comprehensive reports and analytics: Schedule timely reports or access real-time domain query analytics and subnet capacity-based detailed reports for informed decision-making. Retain backups of these reports and download them as needed for future reference and analysis.
- SAML authentication: Simplify the login process with centralized authentication policies from a single identity provider.