Infoblox Management Dashboard

Asset Manager accesses the API of Infoblox (at a polling interval set by the user) and retrieves the inventory of hosts, servers, and other endpoint systems.

Asset Manager correlates this inventory against Asset Manager's authoritative index of IP address space. Asset Manager compares and then advises of any IPs where it doesn't see a Infoblox endpoint; indicating that these IPs would be "undefended/unmanaged" endpoints. Asset Manager then highlights the differences and commonalities into views.

The following widgets are displayed in the Infoblox Management dashboard:

  • Visibility Alignment: Percentage of Asset Manager Devices known by Infoblox. To achieve 100% Visibility Alignment, view the charts on this screen to find the voids in your integration discovery.

  • Asset Manager vs Infoblox IPs: Pie chart offering quick visual of what IPs Asset Manager discovered, what IPs are known by Infoblox, and what IPs both have knowledge.

  • Asset Manager Total IPs: Total IPs Discovered by Asset Manager.

  • Asset Manager Exclusive IP Count: IPs Asset Manager Discovered that are not managed by Infoblox. Check your Infoblox inventory for these IP addresses and add them if they are not present.

  • Infoblox Exclusive IP Count: IPs managed by Infoblox that Asset Manager is not scanning. Verify these IPs are in your Asset Manager Zone Discovery Spaces.

  • Infoblox & Asset Manager IPs: This is your full visibility table. When 100% Visibility Alignment is achieved all your network IPs will reside in this table.

Export or Push Data to Infoblox

Asset Manager automatically pushes the device attributes of operating system (OS), device type, and DNS name to Infoblox.

All data in any dashboard widget can be exported from Asset Manager by clicking the Export icon (i.e., the away-pointing arrow), then imported to Infoblox. when you get to Infoblox, you can click the Data Management tab and search for CIDRs and associated IPs from Asset Manager.

The data displays in Infoblox as:

  • DNS— domain name service

  • OS—operating system

  • Site Value—data source, such as "FireMon" if you're using an earlier software release

  • Device Type— category of asset such as router, printer, switch