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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 to Lumetawith Asset Manager. The Lumeta-Infoblox integration brings the reach of Lumeta’s Asset Manager’s network discovery to the IP address management (IPAM) space.

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

1. Queries Infoblox

2. Correlates that data against what Lumeta Asset Manager “knows”

3. Generates reports

4. Pushes metadata about discovered devices to Infoblox

This integration reconciles data between Lumeta 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.

Documentation by Infoblox & Infoblox Community

• Infoblox WAPI documentation¶
• REST API documentation
• Creating Extensible Attribute Using API

Configuration via

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Asset Manager GUI

To configure connectivity between the Lumeta Asset Manager Command Center and the Infoblox server:

1. On the Lumeta Asset Manager main menu, browse to Settings > Integrations   > Other Solutions > Infoblox.and Configure Infoblox Integration
   
   

2. Provide connection credentials, described here:

   Field	Example	Description
   Polling Interval	24	How often (in hours) that Lumeta Asset Manager should poll Infoblox for information
   Server Name	6510.246101.24133.13844	The Server name or IP address of the Infoblox server.
   Server User Name	infobloxinfouser	Your Infoblox username
   Server Password	********	Your Infoblox password

   
   

3. Click to toggle the Active control from red to green.
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4. For more on this integration's reports, see the IP Address Management page.

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

Compatibility Matrix

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Using Infoblox GUI

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

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

DNS

IPv6 and DNS Records is supported.

To view the zones that hold DNS records:

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

Extensible Attributes

To view extensible attributes from the GUI:

1. Navigate to Administration → Extensible Attributes
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2. You can add or import extensible attributes from here, if you want.
   
   

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   From 4.7 and later, Asset Manager-related Extensible Attributes are automatically created on the Infoblox server when an integration is enabled.

   
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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 Attributes:

This applies to versions 4.6 or earlier.  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.