In Case You Missed It
Last month's product updates can be found in December's communication.
Now Available
- Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Pause Discovery of On-Premises Assets
- Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Cloud Discovery for Organization Units (Amazon Web Services) and Folders (Google Cloud Platform)
Coming Soon
- Infoblox Platform: Phased Enhancement Updates
- Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Dangling CNAMEs, Cloud Discovery, and Ping Sweep
- Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Real-Time DNS Monitoring, Enhanced DNS Logging, Python Client, Ansible IPAM Collection, and GCP Cloud Resolver
- NIOS: Plug-In Updates
- Infoblox Threat Defense: Urgent Update Reminder for Infoblox Endpoint
- Infoblox Threat Defense: Change to Sydney and Johannesburg PoPs
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
PLATFORM
Infoblox Platform: Phased Enhancement Updates
Coming Soon: Mid-January
Starting mid-January, the Infoblox Platform will undergo enhancement updates in phases, continuing through the end of the month. During this period, the status of your platform management and/or application management for on-prem servers may appear unhealthy for up to a minute. However, these status changes will not affect the services running on the on-prem servers.
NETWORKING
Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Pause Discovery of On-Premises Assets
Now Available
Pause Discovery of On-Premises Assets: You can now specify a duration to temporarily pause the discovery of on-premises assets. This feature provides control and flexibility in scheduling network discovery tasks, ensuring network activities are not interrupted during critical times.
Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Cloud Discovery for Organization Units (Amazon Web Services) and Folders (Google Cloud Platform)
Now Available
Universal DDI supports granular selection for AWS (Organizational Units/Accounts) and GCP (Folders/Projects) when creating a network discovery configuration. You can select Organizational Units or Accounts for AWS and Folders or Projects for GCP.
Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™: Dangling CNAMEs and Ping Sweep
Coming Soon: Mid-February
Insight for Dangling CNAMEs: The new "state" attribute automatically identifies stale DNS and IPAM records that lack asset associations, improving security and compliance while reducing administrative work.
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.
Infoblox Universal DDI™ Management: Real-Time DNS Monitoring, Enhanced DNS and DHCP Logging, Python Client, Ansible IPAM Collection, and GCP Cloud Resolver
Coming Soon: Mid-February
DNS Record Classification Monitor: Universal DDI provides real-time monitoring of key DNS categories, highlighting policy violations or areas that need attention. Monitored categories include dangling records, abandoned records, and untrusted records. Real-time monitoring provides clear, actionable insights for more efficient and streamlined analysis and management.
Local Logging from NIOS-X Servers: This enhancement allows you to configure and send DNS query and response and DHCP lease logs to an external syslog server for further analysis. It is configured at the Global DHCP and DNS level and fully supports new and existing deployments.
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 is a set of modules and plug-ins to manage the DDI resources (DNS, DHCP, IP addresses) through APIs. You can use these modules to perform, create, modify, delete, and update operations on various DDI objects. You can also deploy NIOS-X hosts with this new Ansible module.
Manage GCP Cloud Resolver Endpoints and Forwarding Rules: Universal DDI supports discovering and managing cloud resolver endpoints for the Google Cloud Platform, in addition to existing support for AWS and Azure. You can also configure forwarding rules from the Infoblox Portal to define how and where queries are routed in your hybrid, multi-cloud architecture. This centralization reduces configuration errors, streamlines DNS rule changes, and provides network visibility, saving time and reducing complexity for network administrators.
NIOS: Plug-In Updates
Coming Soon: Late January
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 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. The enhancement provides visibility into the complete exception and error response, which aids triage and enables faster issue resolution.
Quick Links for Universal DDI
Quick Links for NIOS DDI
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SECURITY
Infoblox Threat Defense: Urgent Update Reminder for Infoblox Endpoint
Coming Soon: Late January
The additional security provided by Infoblox Endpoint is at risk for Threat Defense customers running older versions of Infoblox Endpoint, some of which can no longer be supported (Refer to this KB article for details on the Infoblox Endpoint Update and Support Policy).
At this time, the supported Endpoint versions are 2.4.16 and 2.4.20. A new release, version 2.5.0, is scheduled for the latter half of January. Please note that version 2.4.16 will no longer be supported after February 12th, 2025, and version 2.4.20 will reach end-of-support 90 days after the release of 2.5.0.
Most importantly, due to the upcoming release of 2.5.0, unsupported versions of the Endpoint may not be able to connect to the Infoblox Cloud and provide protection. Therefore, it is crucial to update any out-of-date Endpoint deployments to the latest version. Our deployment and update features are designed to make updates easy and unobtrusive, including an optional deferred upgrade capability. For further upgrade assistance, contact Infoblox Support.
Note: For information on some of the latest Infoblox Endpoint updates, refer to the Infoblox Endpoint Enhancements announcement in last month's newsletter.
Infoblox Threat Defense: Change to Sydney and Johannesburg PoPs
Deprovision Target: Mid-February
For customers forwarding DNS traffic to the Infoblox Threat Defense cloud using the External Networks configuration without Infoblox Endpoint or DNS Forwarding Proxy, the legacy Anycast IPs (52.119.40.100 and 103.80.5.100) will be deprovisioned in Sydney’s and Johannesburg’s Points of Presence (PoPs) by mid-February and latency may increase as a result.
Therefore, customers sending traffic directly from their DNS infrastructure need to reconfigure to the preferred IPs (52.119.41.100 and 103.80.6.100) and/or allow forwarding on firewalls by early February. Sydney and Johannesburg customers already using the 52.119.41.100 or 103.80.6.100 IPs and those using DFPs or Infoblox Endpoints will not be impacted by this change.
More detailed information on Forwarding DNS Traffic to Infoblox Platform is available in online documentation.
Quick Links for Security
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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.
