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Managed Solutions for
DNS/DHCP Server Management
Technical Brief
Issues of Network Availability or
Accessibility are Dynamic NOT Static
Agentless solutions:
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Do not scale
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Are not real-time
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Increase network traffic
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unnecessarily
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Create potential network
availability issues
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Create potential network
accessibility problems
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Do not meet the
requirement of
today’s networks
Today’s network environments are not only growing exponentially, but
also they are more complex than ever. With enterprises engaging in
provisioning applications, devices, services, and protocols, a managed
solution becomes a non-consideration when you consider the vast and
constantly expanding amount of devices requiring network availability
and accessibility.
Many organizations today are actively configuring, deploying and
managing enterprise initiatives; employing the use of VoIP applications,
RFID tags, wireless endpoints including notebooks and cellular devices,
virtual servers and clients, and IPv6. In these environments, a managed
solution is necessary because networks and the nodes on the networks
are dynamic and not static. For example, every time a dynamic network
event takes place, a management agent passes that information for
that specific event (DDNS update or DHCP lease renewal/assignment)
to Proteus in real-time. These updates do not generate voluminous
network traffic or overhead, and only deal with the DNS/DHCP in
question.
In today’s environment, this new network fabric best handled by IPAM
solutions, like Proteus, is the only alternative to ensuring that devices,
endpoint products, applications, and users experience the “five 9’s”
of network availability and accessibility. In this scenario, whenever
a change is made to the data associated with the IP address, Proteus
is simultaneously updating the DNS/DHCP database. Alternatively
whenever the information residing in the network database managed
by a DNS/DHCP network appliance is made, the data associated
with the IP address is updated. Today’s networks require dynamic
functionality in the data they create and manage.
Agentless
An unmanaged solution, including products without agents or
management systems of some sort, relies entirely on polling events.
Imagine the case of a large network with hundreds of DNS/DHCP
servers. The only manner, in which these managed solutions to be
updated with network and IP data, is to poll ALL DNS/DHCP servers.
When you consider that an enterprise has many tens or hundreds of
DNS/DHCP servers and hundreds of thousands of IP addresses, this
polling technique quickly becomes a daunting task that is not very
pragmatic or useful. Considering the immense amount of network
traffic and overhead created and the fact that IP addresses are not
updated all the time - in real time, network availability and accessibility
problems now become a real challenge and manifests itself in the most
public manner possible – the entire business and marketplace knowing
that your network is down, unavailable, or inaccessible. The fact is that
unmanaged solutions rely on polling to update network centric and IP
centric data, which also lack the detail and the organization that only
managed solutions, such as Proteus, can provide. Until this polling is
performed, these solutions has no way of knowing that there has been
a change in network information.
Simply put, IPAM solutions that lack an agent or dynamic management
system do not scale and do not meet the requirments of today network
administrators in managing the network fabric called IP Address
Management.
Proteus IPAM Platform provides visibility, predictability, and
management of your IP Address Environment. This includes:
Proteus IPAM
Real Time
Agents
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Scalability,
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High availability,
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Crossover failover
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capabilities,
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Real-time access to network and IP centric data,
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Workflow management ,
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Granular policy
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administration,
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Automatic IP discovery and reconciliation,
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Monitoring of remote appliances,
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Restoration of any deleted data pertaining to domains, networks
or IP addresses,
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Quick navigation
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functionality to view entire networks,
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Network event notification,
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Enforcement of corporate naming policies; and,
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Accurate modeling of network domains for anticipating
requirements for IP addresses
Real Time
Real Time
Adonis
Adonis
Windows +
PMAW
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