Finding instances of a hostname in a view with WAPI

[#1]

I need a way to seach for a host or alias name (not the FQDN just the name without the domain) across a view.

Example for teddy.foo.com I want to find all host or alias instances that have the name teddy like teddy.com or teddy.bear.com, etc.

[#2]

You could do:

curl -k -u admin:infoblox -X GET https://192.168.0.12/wapi/v2.5/record:host?_return_fields=aliases\&name~=teddy

But, it does not allow to search for aliaes. You would need to crawl all hosts and find it programatically.

[#3]

Crawling hosts could take a lot of time.

Is there a way to search a view for any entity with a specific name or a way to configure some sort of rule in Infoblox to force names to be unique? What we're trying to avoid are instances where a name in one domain points at a different service than the same name in another domain.

[#4]

> Crawling hosts could take a lot of time.

To go through all host and find aliases, you coudl do the following (perl). And should be fairly quick:

use REST::Client;
use JSON;

...

$client->GET("wapi/v2.0/record:host?_return_fields=dns_aliases,name");
	
	if ( ($client->responseCode() eq 200) || ($client->responseCode() eq 201) )
	{
		my $json = from_json($client->responseContent());
		
		foreach my $item( @$json ) { 
			print "$item->{name}\n";
			my $aliases = $item->{dns_aliases};
			if (defined $aliases )
			{
				foreach my $alias( @$aliases )
				{
					print " -> $alias\n";
				}
			}
		}
	}

Output:

test4.test.net
 -> alias03.test.net
test40.test.net
 -> alias01.test.net
 -> alias02.test.net

> Is there a way to search a view for any entity with a specific name or a way to configure some sort of rule in

> Infoblox to force names to be unique? What we're trying to avoid are instances where a name in one domain

> points at a different service than the same name in another domain.

Hostnames are unique by for a domain, if 'Enable for DNS = true'. But Hostnames can not be globally unique.

[#5]

Thanks for the help. I tried the suggestion and get the error 'AdmConProtoError: Result set too large (> 1000)'

We're currently using QIP and I can run

        qip-search -o <organization> -n <hostname>

and
       qip-search -o <organization> -t "Resource Record" -n <hostname>

Then search the responses for a host name match all in seconds.

Could I replicate that functionality in Infoblox?

[#6]

The script will already search the whole database. Infoblox does not have a concept of Orgs, as QIP.

You just need to allow to return more results using _max_results:

$client->GET("wapi/v2.0/record:host?_return_fields=dns_aliases,name&_max_results=20000");

[#7]

I see.

Is thre a way to limit the search results to a specfic host hostname or alias hostname?

[#8]

Add

name=<string>         //straight search

or name~=<string>    // Regex

$client->GET("wapi/v2.0/record:host?_return_fields=dns_aliases,name&name=host01.test.net");

[#9]

So I should be able to tell if a hostname is in use by a host by:

$client->GET("wapi/v2.0/record:host?_return_fields=dns_aliases,name&_max_results=1&name~=^<hostname>\\.");

How would I do the same thing to determine if a hostname is in use by an alias?

[#10]

I think you would need to do that programmatically with a script.

[#11]

OK. I bumped up the _max_results value to 10000000 and get back 1091405 hosts.

The runtime in our stage environment is 1083 seconds so not exactly quick.