Powerful, Centralized Name and Address Management
Proper management of an organization's name and address space has become critical to the availability of the entire network, as configuration errors can make all network services completely unavailable. Yet traditional approaches to managing name and address information involve manually editing zone files with arcane syntax and keeping IP address information in spreadsheets, with substantial opportunities for errors.
NameSurfer Suite is the market-leading, virtualization-ready DNS, DHCP and IP Address management solution that centralizes and simplifies the process of managing name and address information and configuring the servers themselves. By reducing the amount of effort required to maintain name and address information and eliminating opportunities for errors, NameSurfer Suite greatly reduces operating costs and decreases the risk of downtime.
NameSurfer Suite is a mature and proven solution for DNS and IP Address Management. It offers the scalability, security and availability required to manage some of the most sophisticated TCP/IP networks in the world. Its customers include many Fortune 500 companies and roughly 30% of all 2.5G and 3G operators worldwide.
Key Benefits
- Reduce DNS and IP address management costs up to 90%
- Eliminate DNS downtime due to configuration errors
- Ensure compliance with laws and regulations
- Supports business continuity initiatives
- Improves security of critical infrastructure
Key Features
General Management
- Intuitive web-based user interface
- No client software required
- Virtualization-ready - does not require dedicated hardware
- Fully granular user groups functionality for distributed management
- Statistics on DNS and IP address space usage
DNS Management
- Automated error and consistency check of data input
- Automated zone serial numbering
- Automated creation of reverse entries
- Automated provisioning of next available IP
- Automated master-to-slave propagation of all DNS changes
- Zone template functionality enabling pre-defined entries when adding hosts
- Batch creation of multiple host entries
- Support for DNS Views
- ENUM Support
- Support for BIND versions 4, 8, and 9, NSD Versions 3.0, Nixu SNS and Secure64 DNS
- Configuration utility for remote DNS servers / secondaries
IP Address Management
- Centralized management point for organization's IP address space and related data
- Replaces commonly used Excel spreadsheets
- Import/export functionality supporting CSV format
- Automated synchronization of DNS data and IPAM module; contents of given IP address block always up-to-date, populated automatically using live DNS data
- Keeps track of organization's IP address space and its usage
- Calculates possible values for new blocks and individual IP addresses automatically
- Statistics; e.g. free IP addresses within given subnets
- Secure storage for IP address inventory, storing information such as:
- Distribution of IP address space; subnets and their sizes, individual IPs within organization
- Physical location of subnets/individual IPs; type of usage; equipment used; name of internal/external owner and their contact details; etc.
- Support for merging and splitting IP address blocks/subnets on the fly
- Configuration utility for remote ISC DHCPD servers
High Availability
- Automated backup/restore of the entire database
- Optional High-Availability / hot-standby replication module
Compliance
- Transaction log with audit trail (who, what, when); undo and redo
Security
- Built-in user authentication
- Secure "Hidden Primary" solution architecture
- Integration with Microsoft AD networks using Dynamic DNS, TSIGs
Customization
- Network-based Application Protocol Interface (XML-RPC based API)
- Embedded SQL backend with ODBC interface and access to table descriptions
Scalability
- Scales to millions of name entries and hundreds of thousands of zones
Platform Support
- Sun Solaris on UltraSparc servers
- RHEL Linux on x86 servers
- VMWare Server and ESX Server
- Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition
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