
A step-by-step guide to DNS automation
Make the most of your BlueCat solution to save time, increase efficiency, and implement self-service.
Here are the facts:
- 66% of IT managers report struggling to support strategic business initiatives due to decentralized, legacy network infrastructure and manual processes.
- An estimated 30% of all help desk tickets are DNS related.
- According to Gartner, almost 80% of networking activities are manually driven.
Check out this step-by-step guide to automating everything – from those time-consuming DNS tasks to the more complex, resource-intensive ones – with your BlueCat solution and the workflows in our GitHub repository: BlueCat Labs.

What’s Featured
Basic automation
- Adding host records or alias records
- Selective deployment
- Bulk Importing
- Reporting
Intermediate automation
- Workflow scheduling with Rundeck
- Connections to shifting third-party domains
- Failover for BlueCat Address Manager, DNS, and DHCP server (BDDS)
- IP address allocation and deallocation in the cloud
- Adding DNS records with ServiceNow
Advanced automation
- Workflow scheduling with Rundeck
- Connections to shifting third-party domains
- Failover for BlueCat Address Manager, DNS, and DHCP server (BDDS)
- IP address allocation and deallocation in the cloud
- Adding DNS records with ServiceNow