In Case You Missed It
Last month's product updates can be found in January's communication.
Now Available
- Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Python Client, Ansible IPAM Collection, and GCP Cloud Resolver
- Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Discovery Ping Sweep and Insight for Zombie Resource Utilization
- NIOS: Plug-In Updates
Coming Soon
- Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: DNS Record Classification Monitor and Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers
- Infoblox Threat Defense: Industry Vertical Analysis
- Infoblox Threat Defense: Executive and Comprehensive Security Report Updates
- Infoblox Support Portal: "My Products" Page Enhancements
End-of-Life / End-of-Sale Announcements
- NetMRI: End-of-Life Announcement
- NIOS 8.6: End-of-Life Announcement
- BloxOne DDI: End-of-Sale Announcement
NETWORKING
Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Python Client, Ansible IPAM Collection, and GCP Cloud Resolver
Now Available
Python Client: The new Python Client for Universal DDI simplifies interactions with the Infoblox Portal via API, providing a preconfigured set of commonly used functions to manage DNS resources, create discovery jobs for on-premises and cloud resources, manage IP addresses, and configure DHCP options.
Ansible IPAM Collection: The new Ansible Collection for Universal DDI replaces the previous B1DDI collection, providing a set of modules and plug-ins to manage DNS, DHCP, and IP address (DDI) resources through APIs. You can use these modules to perform, create, modify, delete, and update operations on various DDI objects and deploy NIOS-X servers.
Manage GCP Cloud Resolver Endpoints and Forwarding Rules: Universal DDI now supports the discovery and management of cloud resolver endpoints for the Google Cloud Platform, in addition to the existing support for AWS and Azure. This feature enables the configuration of forwarding rules from the Infoblox Portal to define how and where queries are routed in your hybrid, multi-cloud architecture. This level of centralization reduces configuration errors, streamlines DNS rule changes, and provides clear network visibility while saving time and reducing complexity for network administrators.
Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Discovery Ping Sweep and Insight for Zombie Resource Utilization
Now Available
Discovery Ping Sweep: In addition to existing discovery methods, you can now automate the discovery of active IP addresses in your network infrastructure using ping sweep, ensuring that your IPAM data remains current and accurate.
Insight for Zombie Resource Utilization: The new zombie asset classification identifies low CPU utilization on assets across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This insight helps in right-sizing CPU resource assignments, optimizing resource allocations, and reducing costs.
NIOS: Plug-In Updates
Now Available
Terraform IPAM Plug-In 2.9.0: This NIOS Plug-In adds DNS Traffic Control (DTC) support for Terraform by streamlining a combination of configurations and scripts to improve user experience and enable application availability and performance in Terraform workloads.
Ansible IPAM Plug-In 1.8.0: The Ansible NIOS Plug-In 1.8.0 adds a new Admin User Module to create and manage local users and passwords for workloads, applications, and testing. This enhancement also introduces an Ansible VLAN module to simplify creating, assigning, deleting, and updating VLAN objects and networks and to provide enhanced visibility into VLANs and ranges, as well as access to all fields supported by the Web API (WAPI).
VMware Plug-In 6.2.0: The new VMware Plug-In enables IPAM to work seamlessly with the latest version of Aria for both Universal DDI and all existing NIOS VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows.
Python Client 0.7.0: The Python Client upgrade increases error reporting visibility by providing an additional log displaying the complete error response from remote Web API (WAPI) calls. This enhancement provides visibility into the complete exception and error response, which aids triage and ensures faster issue resolution.
Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: DNS Record Classification Monitor and Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers
Coming Soon: Mid-to-Late February
DNS Record Classification Monitor: Universal DDI will provide real-time, centralized monitoring and insights across key DNS categories in AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premises environments. DNS Record Classification monitors multiple record types, including dangling, abandoned and untrusted DNS records to deliver the following benefits:
- Enhanced Security: Dangling DNS records are detected to prevent subdomain hijacking and abandoned or untrusted records are identified to reduce attack surfaces vulnerable to phishing, spoofing, and unauthorized access.
- Improved Efficiency: Streamlines DNS record handling to reduce errors and simplify troubleshooting.
- Lower Costs: Unused or lingering resources are identified and eliminated to reduce unnecessary expenses, allowing organizations to decommission obsolete DNS records and optimize cloud resource allocation.
Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers: This enhancement will allow you to configure and send DNS query and response and DHCP lease logs to an SIEM for further analysis. By eliminating the need to send these logs through the Universal DDI cloud service, you can save on Reporting Tokens. It can be configured at the Global DHCP and DNS levels and fully supports new and existing deployments.
Quick Links for Universal DDI
Quick Links for NIOS DDI
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SECURITY
Infoblox Threat Defense: Industry Vertical Analysis
Coming Soon: Mid-February
The new Industry Vertical Analysis module in Infoblox Threat Defense will enable you to benchmark your security posture against others in the same industry. By analyzing DNS traffic and statistics across key categories, such as Malicious Threats, Risky Threats, Threat Insights, Threat Actors, and Zero Day Detection, you will gain valuable insights into your relative security stance. This comparison will help in fine-tuning security policies to enhance overall security posture.
The analysis leverages the industry registered to your Infoblox account and provides results from three perspectives: 'Customer Specific,' 'Peers from the Same Industry Vertical,' and 'All Customers.' This module will be available to Business Cloud and Advanced licensed users and accessible through Monitor > Reports > Security on the Infoblox Portal.
Infoblox Threat Defense: Executive and Comprehensive Security Report Updates
Coming Soon: Late February
For Infoblox Threat Defense Business Cloud and Advanced users, both the Executive Summary Report and the Comprehensive Security Report will be refreshed to provide more comprehensive and actionable insights, with enhancements in several key areas:
- Streamlined Layout: The new layout will offer a single-view summary of overall statistics, with additional detailed information for each module. This will provide analysts with a general understanding at a glance and make it easy to dig further into any module as needed.
- Improved Highlighting of Key Traffic Items: These reports will better emphasize critical customer traffic items across all modules of Threat Defense.
- Dynamic DNS Traffic Anomaly Detection: Reports will dynamically identify DNS traffic anomalies, highlighting mean deviations over the report period.
Quick Links for Security
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SUPPORT
Infoblox Support Portal: "My Products" Page Enhancements
Coming Soon: Mid-March
Enhancements are coming to the "My Products" page in the Support Portal. You will now experience a fresh and intuitive user interface, an interactive dashboard showcasing your install base, the ability to view hosts or software, along with associated license assignments from a single page, and advanced filtering capabilities for a more streamlined experience.
END-OF-LIFE / END-OF-SALE
NetMRI: End-of-Life Announcement
Projected Date: April 2027
Reminder: On April 30, 2025, NetMRI will reach its Last Order Date (LOD) milestone, with the End-of-Life (EoL) scheduled for April 30, 2027. NetMRI renewals will be allowed after the LOD until the EoL date. For more information, please visit the Infoblox Support Portal’s End-of-Life Announcements and subscribe to receive product lifecycle updates by email. If you require planning or migration assistance, please contact your preferred Infoblox partner or your Infoblox account team for service options.
NIOS 8.6: End-of-Life Announcement
Projected Date: April 2025
Reminder: On April 30, 2025, NIOS 8.6 and its derivative releases (8.6.0, 8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.3, and 8.6.4) will reach their End-of-Life (EoL) milestones. NIOS releases before 8.6.0 are already past their EoL dates. For more information, please visit the Infoblox Support Portal’s End-of-Life Announcements and subscribe to receive product lifecycle updates by email. If you require planning or upgrade assistance, please contact your preferred Infoblox partner or your Infoblox account team for service options.
BloxOne DDI: End-of-Sale Announcement
Projected Date: April 2025
Reminder: On April 30, 2025, BloxOne DDI software SKUs will reach their Last Order Date (LOD) milestone. Existing BloxOne DDI contracts will be honored but future expansions and renewals will require a move to Universal DDI Management and the related NIOS-X deployment options, which include all capabilities previously available in BloxOne DDI and more. For more information, please visit the Infoblox Support Portal’s End-of-Sale Announcement.
Note: This communication relates to the BloxOne DDI software SKUs and does not apply to the Infoblox B1-212 physical server or the Infoblox BloxOne sandbox SKU.
