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 . . .
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For deployment via the Linux shell, see Deployment & Configuration via Asset Manager CLI. |
To configure connectivity between the Asset Manager Command Center and the Infoblox server:
On the Asset Manager main menu, browse to Settings > Integrations and Configure Infoblox Integration
Provide connection credentials, described here:
Field | Example | Description |
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Polling Interval | 24 | How often (in hours) that Asset Manager should poll Infoblox for information |
Server Name | 10.101.33.44 | The Server name or IP address of the Infoblox server. |
Server User Name | infouser | Your Infoblox username |
Server Password | ******** | Your Infoblox password |
To see the results within Infoblox, log into Infoblox and browse to Data Management > IPAM.
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.
IPv6 and DNS Records is supported.
To view the zones that hold DNS records:
To view extensible attributes from the GUI:
You can add or import extensible attributes from here, if you want.
From 4.7 and later, Asset Manager-related Extensible Attributes are automatically created on the Infoblox server when an integration is enabled. |
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",
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.