Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP 7.2 Technical specifications

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DNS/DHCP & IP Address Management
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Product Description
Next Generation Platform

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CONTENTS
1Introduction.................................................................................. 5
1.1 Scope............................................................................................. 5
1.2 Audience ........................................................................................ 5
1.3 Introduction to IP Management............................................................. 5
1.4 Benefits/value proposition .................................................................. 5
2Product Capabilities ....................................................................... 6
2.1 Architecture.................................................................................... 7
2.1.1 VitalQIP Components............................................................................7
2.2 Core Product ................................................................................... 9
2.2.1 User interface....................................................................................9
2.2.2 The 7.2 Web GUI.................................................................................9
2.2.3 Command Line Interface ..................................................................... 11
2.2.4 New Web Services API ........................................................................ 11
2.2.5 API Toolkit...................................................................................... 11
3Features .....................................................................................12
3.1 VitalQIP 7.2 Next-Generation Web GUI ..................................................12
3.2 VitalQIP Client GUI – traditional “thick” client.........................................22
3.2.1 Thick Client Menus ............................................................................ 22
3.2.2 Flexibility in Supporting Mulit-Vendor Solution........................................... 24
3.3 VitalQIP Appliance-Based Solution........................................................25
3.3.1 The AMS GUI explained by tab .............................................................. 29
3.4 Application Programming Interfaces .....................................................30
3.5 Database........................................................................................30
3.6 Data Viewing and Filtering Capability....................................................31
3.7 Data Export/Import Capabilities...........................................................31
3.8 SNMP Capabilities.............................................................................31
3.9 Reporting Capability .........................................................................31
3.10 User Configurable Capability...............................................................32
3.11 Innovative Profiling Capabilities...........................................................32
3.12 Flexible Subnet Management ..............................................................33
3.13 Customized User Interface .................................................................33
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3.14 Administrative Roles.........................................................................33
3.15 Secure Dynamic Update Support..........................................................33
3.16 Single Login For VitalQIP Software........................................................33
3.17 Ability to Change DNS Options on Multiple Domains Simultaneously ..............34
3.18 Push to Remote Server......................................................................34
3.19 Enhanced Go To/Search For Fully Qualified Domain Names.........................34
3.20 ACL Policy templates ........................................................................34
3.21 Login Service Authentication Callout ....................................................34
3.22 Redundant Schedule Service...............................................................34
3.23 Job Scheduler .................................................................................35
3.24 DHCP Option 82 support ....................................................................35
3.25 Windows Support.............................................................................35
3.26 Microsoft Secure Zones......................................................................35
3.27 Changed Records Push.......................................................................36
3.28 Secure Messaging .............................................................................36
3.29 DNS & DHCP Server Compatibility.........................................................36
3.30 DNS – Domain Name Server and Dynamic DNS..........................................36
3.31 Configuring Remote DNS Servers..........................................................37
3.32 Dynamic DNS...................................................................................38
3.33 DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol...........................................38
3.34 Configuring DHCP Servers...................................................................39
3.35 DHCP Intelligent Templates ................................................................39
3.36 Managing DHCP ranges.......................................................................39
3.37 DHCP Failover .................................................................................40
3.38 Third-party DHCP Servers...................................................................40
3.39 Database and DDNS Updates ...............................................................40
3.40 VitalQIP Administration .....................................................................40
3.41 MyView .........................................................................................41
4Additional Product Features ............................................................41
4.1 VitalQIP Audit Manager Module............................................................41
4.1.1 VitalQIP Services Manager Module.......................................................... 42
4.2 VitalQIP Registration Manager Module ...................................................43
4.2.1 VitalQIP Workflow Manager Module ........................................................ 43
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4.3 VitalQIP Alcatel-Lucent DHCP Rules Manager...........................................44
4.3.1 VitalQIP ENUM Manager....................................................................... 45
4.4 Computing Platform Requirements and Options.......................................45
4.4.1 Supported Platforms .......................................................................... 45
4.4.2 High Availability Architecture............................................................... 45
5SyStem performance and reliability...................................................46
6Operations, administration and Maintenance ......................................46
6.1 Security.........................................................................................47
6.2 Disaster Recovery ............................................................................47
7What’s New in VitalQIP 7.2 .............................................................47
7.1 Next Generation Architecture and New Web UI .......................................48
7.2 DNS Views......................................................................................49
7.3 Report Enhancements .......................................................................50
7.4 Managed Files .................................................................................51
7.5 MyView .........................................................................................51
7.6 What’s New in QIP Appliances for QIP 7.2 ..............................................53
8Standard compliance – RFC’s supported..............................................54
8.1 DNS RFCs .......................................................................................54
8.2 DHCP RFCs .....................................................................................56
9Implementation, Configuration, and Testing (Software integration services)57
10 Product Education and Training .......................................................57
11 Future Enhancements.....................................................................57
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Scope
VitalQIP®is the industry’s leading IP management software product. This product description provides a
detailed technical and marketing description of VitalQIP. This includes background on the basics of IP
management; the business needs and value proposition, and an overview of the product itself, including
the latest release 7.2 features. This document should be used and viewed in conjunction with the most
current VitalQIP 7.2 Release Notes and Web Client User’s Guide.
1.2 Audience
This document is intended for Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Services, Business Partners and
Information Delivery personnel requiring an in-depth description of VitalQIP®and its extended
capabilities.
1.3 Introduction to IP Management
It can be argued that VitalQIP, or QIP as it was originally named, created the IP management software
market. QIP was first released to the market in 1995 based on a request from J P Morgan for a software
application to manage their IP address space. They required a single centralized inventory of their IP
addresses, how their IP space was subnetted and which addresses were assigned where. Now, 13+ years
later and with over 850 customers worldwide, VitalQIP is still the industry-leading product. The basic
requirements of IP Address Management, coupled with required DNS and DHCP services, have not
changed over the years. What have changed are the network trends and requirements of these networks
that have made having a consolidated system like VitalQIP essential to both enterprise and service
provider companies. VitalQIP has met these growing trends in every way – whether it be responding to
new technologies such as IPv6, VoIP, or ENUM; or meeting the needs of our customers by introducing
the Alcatel-Lucent Appliances; or providing tools, such as better reporting and Workflow Manager, and
thereby continuing to provide automation and efficiencies in customers’ networks. The explosion of IP-
enabled devices and networks, along with policies and procedures has further escalated customers’ needs
for a proven, scalable IP Address Management solution in their architectures today. With the ever-
changing market dynamics in hardware and direction, the VitalQIP solution continues to be the most
flexible in the market today, providing either a software solution integrated with multiple platforms, or a
full appliance-based hardware/software solution.
1.4 Benefits/value proposition
VitalQIP provides the following benefits:
•Automation of IP address assignment increases end user productivity and reduces manual processes
as well as help desk calls.
•Accurate, centralized IP network inventory reduces address assignment errors and links IP device
addresses to domain names. It also improves network moves/adds/changes processes by providing IP
address visibility to the individual object level, not just subnet block.
•Subnetting tools simplify and improve accuracy of subnetting operations and reduce the requirement
to remember binary arithmetic.
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•Hierarchical graphical user interface (GUI) allows viewing of IP network by domain, network,
subnet, subnet organization, DNS server, DHCP server, and even a user definable hierarchy. This
allows use of the software across a multitude of constituencies with varying perspectives, hot buttons,
and backgrounds. Flexible administrator network resource visibility also increases security and
improves accountability.
•DHCP failover capabilities and multiple DNS server redundancy maximize availability of IP address
and name services to clients, keeping them productive despite failures.
•Flexibility to support existing BIND or Microsoft environments with full integration lowers start up
and ongoing costs.
•Support for DNS Bind Views.
•Optional integrated VitalQIP Appliances to take advantage of the off-the-shelf hardware/software
solution with extended capabilities for efficient patch management and processing. As well as DNS
High Availability.
Control VitalQIP provides centralized IP address space, DNS, DHCP and ENUM .
management.
Speed Centrally manage IP address space, DNS, ENUM and DHCP servers Plan your IP
space then simply push server configuration files to distributed DHCP/DNS
servers.
Accuracy VitalQIP ensures accurate, properly formatted configuration files are pushed to
DNS and DHCP servers to keep IP services available.
Delegation VitalQIP enables delegation of responsibility with administrator profiles and
granular control of user permissions.
Security VitalQIP provides access controls, SSL communications, and GSS-TSIG to prevent
DNS cache poisoning. DNSSEC is supported while key management is provided by
the customer.
Scalability Carrier class with proven scalability (millions of IP addresses).
Quality Standards-based software designed under strict quality management and best
practices.
Support VitalQIP provides superior class maintenance and support.
Evolution VitalQIP delivers 1 major releases/year, continuing to support latest
standards/technologies including IPv6 and appliance based solutions.
2 PRODUCT CAPABILITIES
VitalQIP®is the most feature-rich IP management software product in the market. As the market leader
and through implementation of customer suggestions, the product has evolved over the years to ensure
that existing customers and future customers continue to leverage the most proven product in the market
to keep pace with the trends in the IPAM space today.
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The Next Generation Platform for VitalQIP 7.x takes VitalQIP to a new level. This was an opportunity to
create a new data representation which would allow for a flexible model to accommodate the shift in data
and explosion of devices and protocols present in today’s networks. The following diagram shows the
functional components:
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Workflow Manager
Audit Manager
QIP
DNS DHCP
Address Allocation
LDRM
Auto Discovery
SNMP Services Manager
ENUM
Manager
Web Services
API
Soap API
ARIN/APNIC/AFNIC/RIPE
Internet Registries
Servers
Routers PC
PC
Integration
with other
systems
DHCP
Server DNS
Server
DHCP/DNS
Appliances
2.1 Architecture
2.1.1 VitalQIP Components
Enterprise Server and Database Components
•VitalQIP Enterprise Server
•VitalQIP Remote Server
•VitalQIP GUI Client
•VitalQIP Distributed Services
•VitalQIP Web Client Interface
•VitalQIP Add-on Modules
•VitalQIP Appliances
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VitalQIP Architecture
VitalQIP Enterprise Server
Arbitrates and validates access to the
information, controls IP services and
interfaces to the data repository
Relational (RDBMS) VitalQIP
database
Sybase or optional Oracle
VitalQIP Clients: Windows, Motif,
Web, CLIs DNS, DHCP, Bootp, NIS, Local
Host Files
Remote Servers
IP address registration, DNS/DHCP configurations, and administrator definitions are stored in a central
RDBMS repository. This database can be based on an Oracle or Sybase engine and can reside on a Sun
Solaris, Windows, RedHat Linux or Alatel-Lucent Appliance. Alcatel-Lucent Technologies currently
ships VitalQIP software with a run-time version of Sybase. Alcatel-Lucent Technologies does not resell
or embed Oracle, which must be licensed separately by the customer.
Once installed and configured an appliance is turned up, the central database – or Knowledgebase – is the
center of the VitalQIP services. From this point, all DNS configurations, DHCP registrations,
administrator profiles, and addresses are maintained. The Knowledgebase then becomes the source of
information for network topologies, IP services (DNS and DHCP) information and configuration models,
administrative privileges, and profiles of individual network object profiles (such as cable modem, hubs,
routers, servers, etc.). The Knowledgebase is maintained and manipulated by both IP services and
distributed administrators using an intuitive GUI. The Knowledgebase then extends itself for the
management and maintenance of DNS and DHCP operations.
All DNS/DHCP servers communicate to the centralized database only for initial configuration or updates,
as configuration files or boot files are modified or removed. Servers can be configured to send update
information to the database as IP addresses are leased, renewed, or re-leased for DHCP and for external
dynamic DNS updates, say from Windows clients, for DNS.
Each enterprise server consists of additional daemons/services that control scheduling, remote
connections, and message queuing.
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Alcatel-Lucent provides a full database schema to customers that define table/field relationships, so that
custom APIs and interfaces can be developed to extract or update information from third-party or
corporate applications.
As a planning and reporting tool, the Enterprise Server includes sophisticated utilities for importing and
validating network information, extensive reporting capabilities, and a flexible interface for routine and
ad hoc inquiries that allows users to view audit trails by device or administrator.
2.2 Core Product
2.2.1 User interface
The VitalQIP Product has matured over the years from offering multiple interfaces to now focusing on the
next generation platform offering a new web based GUI. In the VitalQIP 7.2 release, the traditional Motif
GUI interface for UNIX systems, Command Line Interface and the C/C++ API (VitalQIP API Toolkit) all
remain the same.
Historically VitalQIP has maintained both Windows and motif GUI or the ‘Thick Client’ as well as a
Limited Web GUI. It has been clear that the VitalQIP customer base is becoming increasingly more
focused on mobility, flexibility and speed of accessing VitalQIP from anywhere. Therefore, as part of the
next generation application a brand new Web Based GUI has been created. The following outlines the
most current release functions within VitalQIP7.2
2.2.2 The 7.2 Web GUI
The VitalQIP 7.2 Web GUI includes all the functions for a basic administrator to perform day-to-day
work:
•IPv4 Subnet Management
•IPv4 Address (Object) Management
•Address Allocation (IPv4 and IPv6)
•IPv6 Address Management (Address Ranges, Subnets, IP Address)
•Node Management
•Subnet Management
•Reports
•User defined Attribute Management
•Node Management
•MyView (customized scope/hierarchy for each Admin)
•Auto Discovery
•New scheduling feature for IPv6
•Extended validation and security for Admin Password
•Integration with Add-ons such as Appliance Management System and Auto Discovery
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The 7.2 Client GUI contains all the functions that a master administrator needs to perform day-to-day
operations:
•Infrastructure support – Organization, Network, Subnet Org
•Ability to create Domains, Networks, etc.
•Policy Management
•User Defined Attributes
•DNS Server Configuration
•DHCP Server Configuration
•Address Reclaims
•Active Lease Viewing/Management
•Administrative Permissions
The 7.2 Web GUI is fully explained in the VitalQIP 7.2 Web Client User’s Guide.
Below is a sample screenshot of the QIP 7.2 GUI main screen:
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