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Proteus - IPAM
IP Address Management Made Easy
Proteus enables you to manage, track and assign IP addresses, networks and hostnames – all from a single Web-based management interface. With the ability to centrally manage and monitor your IP address space and DNS/DHCP core services, Proteus provides complete visibility and control over all aspects of your name and address infrastructure – whether you use Windows or BlueCat Networks' own Adonis DNS/DHCP solution. Proteus replaces inefficient legacy IP Address Management solutions including spreadsheets and manual processes with a smart, simple, scalable solution that automates IP and hostname provisioning and reduces IT costs.
Benefits
- Centrally manage "everything IP" across your network with ease
- Reduce the cost of managing DNS and DHCP core services
- Quickly and easily provision IP addresses and core network services
- View IP address and name space data across geographies, data centers and business units
- Efficiently assign and delegate network configuration workflow with full approval controls and auditing
- Grow your network infrastructure without fear of address overlaps or service outages
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How It Works
Proteus seamlessly integrates with the BlueCat Networks Adonis DNS/DHCP appliance, as well as with Microsoft Windows DNS and DHCP, to provide a unified solution for managing your IP address space and DNS and DHCP core services. Together, Proteus and Adonis ensure that your business-critical IP address and name infrastructure is reliable, cost-effective, scalable and secure.
Features
Efficient Network Management
Flexible Role-Based Access Control
With Proteus, you can define permissions at a high or low level to assign or restrict access rights to those who need it – regardless of their physical location or logical area of responsibility. You can define permissions for any number of zones or networks right down to the record level. Customize configuration controls to ensure that your administrators and operators have the appropriate level of management rights based on their skills and experience. Concurrent administration allows multiple users to make changes on the network simultaneously, while ensuring that the changes do not cause conflicts.
Workflow
Proteus includes a fully integrated change control system for managing workflow, network changes and delegation. Your less experienced administrators or help desk personnel can create change requests, but those changes will not be implemented until they are approved by more senior members of your team. This allows you to take advantage of a larger pool of personnel that can suggest changes, while ensuring that accountability for the actual changes remains clear.
Tracking and Auditing
Proteus includes comprehensive transaction auditing to provide the real-time and historical data you need to answer important questions such as who, what, where and when. Each DNS and DHCP change is listed with user names and time stamps associated with it. Tracking user transactions helps you to comply with internal policies and key external regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).
Global Visibility and Scope
Centralized Management
Proteus presents a business-centric view of all IP, DNS and DHCP data regardless of where it resides on your network. The ability to view and manage "everything IP" from a single pane of glass simplifies management and saves you time and resources. Assigning a new IP address within Proteus will also create the DNS host and DHCP reservation, allowing a single action to update multiple services. The Proteus Web-based interface can be accessed from anywhere with any Web-enabled device, whether a smart phone, tablet or computer.
Integration of IP Address, DNS and DHCP Data
Dynamic DNS (DDNS) removes the need to manually assign hostnames and eases the burden of DNS administration. As a result, DNS and DHCP services are now so closely intertwined that consolidated management of both is essential. Proteus goes even further by adding IPAM to the integrated view. The easy to use Proteus interface provides you with a view of every device on your network including its MAC address, its DHCP lease information as well as its DNS host record.
Scalability
Proteus provides the industry's most scalable solution for centrally managing IPAM, DNS and DHCP across even the largest network environments. A single Proteus IPAM solution is being used by customers today to handle millions of IP addresses, hundreds of thousands of networks and DNS zones and hundreds of data centers and DNS/DHCP appliances – all from a single unified management interface.
Network Planning and Modeling
Network Templates
Pre-design your networks according to your unique business requirements. You can create one or more network templates that include settings such as non-standard default gateway addresses, DHCP ranges, host record data, and DNS and DHCP deployment options. These templates save you time and manual effort by eliminating the need to "reinvent the wheel" every time you need to configure a network.
Proteus Configurations
Manage overlapping IP spaces through the creation of separate Proteus configurations. Separate IP infrastructures can co-exist while the IP integration process is planned and deployed. Alternatively, you can create a configuration space for each division in your organization or for each data center or geographic region. Proteus will adapt to your organizational structure rather than enforcing a strict hierarchy.
Multiple Levels of Process Automation
Scheduled and On-Demand Deployments
DNS and DHCP data configured in Proteus does not go live until you choose to deploy it to your DNS/DHCP servers (Adonis and/or Windows). Depending on your organizational needs, you can deploy changes on demand or schedule deployments to occur at off peak hours.
Integrated Data Validation Tools
Proteus includes several tools to ensure that your data is clean. As you add new data into the system, Proteus validates it for syntactical or logical errors. You can also schedule Proteus' Data Checker to examine DNS and DHCP data for industry best practices and configuration errors.
Web Services API
All Proteus IPAM features including DNS, DHCP and IP inventories are accessible via a simple, unified Web services API. This API makes it simple to integrate Proteus with other systems for trouble ticketing, network automation or asset/configuration tracking.
Automatic Discovery and IP Reconciliation
The Proteus Network Discovery tool uses SNMP to talk directly to routers and layer 3 switches, enabling Proteus to automatically find changes to IP-enabled devices across geographically-dispersed networks. After finding addresses that have been newly added and recently removed from the network, the discovery tool also identifies conflicts based on DNS hostname and MAC address. After discovery, the IP Reconciliation component compares the changes to identify unused IP addresses for reclamation and help uncover unauthorized IP addresses that can create security vulnerabilities.
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