Infoblox NIOS DDI

An important early step in conducting any census of managed assets is to validate IPAM tracking and allocation data. To that end, Infoblox has been integrated with Asset Manager. The integration brings the reach of Asset Manager’s network discovery to the IP address management (IPAM) space.

When you activate the Infoblox IPAM integration, Asset Manager . . .

  • Queries Infoblox

  • Correlates that data against what Asset Manager “knows”

  • Generates reports

  • Pushes metadata about discovered devices to Infoblox

This integration reconciles data between Asset Manager and Infoblox without directly reading or modifying Infoblox tables: All pull/update operations are performed by API calls. This integration enables you to produce and export an IP list with which you can update Infoblox's data. With the two solutions working together, gaps in IP management coverage are eliminated and your organization can accurately account for its assets under management.

Asset Manager also collects data from more record types, including host, A, AAAA, and PTR. In addition, the extensible attributes "Site," "Device Type," and "Operating System" are now pushed from Asset Manager and populate in Infoblox.

Infoblox logs out after only a minute of idle time. To increase the session timeout value . . .

  • Grid → Grid Manager → Grid Properties → Edit → Security → Session Timeout Max Value: from 60 - 31536000

Documentation by Infoblox & Infoblox Community

Configure using Asset Manager GUI

  1. In Asset Manager, go to Settings > Integrations > Infoblox, and click Configure. 
  2. Turn on the Enabled toggle to activate the integration.
  3. Enter a Polling Interval to indicate the time that should elapse between fetching the latest feed data. Input 24 to poll daily, input 12 to poll twice a day, and so on.
  4. Enter the DNS name or IP address of the Infobox server.
  5. Enter your Infoblox credentials.
  6. Click Test to confirm that the feed is configured correctly.
  7. Click Save.  

To see the results within Infoblox, log into Infoblox and go to Data Management > IPAM.

Using Infoblox GUI

To view  managed and unmanaged CIDRs and IP address, brown in Infoblox to Data Management → IPAM:

The IPAM Utilization column shows how much of the address space is used by actual hosts.

DNS

IPv6 and DNS Records are supported.

To view the zones that hold DNS records:

  1. Browse to DNS > Zones.
  2. Click a record such as "lum-forward"
  3. You can see the record types in the Type column and add a new record here of the types A, AAAA, PTR, Host.

Extensible Attributes

Extensible Attributes are automatically created on the Infoblox server when an integration is enabled.

To view extensible attributes from the GUI:

  1. Go to Administration > Extensible Attributes

  2. You can add or import extensible attributes from here, if you want.

To view extensible attributes from the CLI:

curl -s -k -u admin:infoblox -X GET "https://172.16.42.113/wapi/v2.8/extensibleattributedef?_return_fields=name,type,list_values" | grep "name"        "name": "Building",
        "name": "Country",
        "name": "Region",
        "name": "Site",
        "name": "State",
        "name": "VLAN",
        "name": "IB Discovery Owned",
        "name": "Parental-Control-Policy",
        "name": "Subscriber-Secure-Policy",
        "name": "Proxy-All",
        "name": "Black-List",
        "name": "White-List",
        "name": "PC-Category-Policy",
        "name": "User-Name",
        "name": "ReportingSite",

To view/create/delete extensible attributes from Infoblox GUI: Administration > Extensible Attribute

As an example of creating "Operating System" extensible attribute:

curl -k -u infoadmin:infopass -X POST 'https://172.16.42.113/wapi/v2.11/extensibleattributedef' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"Operating System", "type":"STRING"}'

Add extensible attributes as a column when listing IPs in Infoblox view.