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Making Gateway Work For You | Bulk Importing

Session 2: Optimize bulk importing with Gateway and learn how to write logic to resolve conflicts, address dependencies, and clean up data as it loads.

Key Takeaways
  • Gateway extends BlueCat Address Manager’s native bulk import capabilities for DNS/DHCP/IPAM objects such as host records and IP addresses.
  • Administrators can embed custom logic in Gateway workflows to automatically detect and resolve import errors and data conflicts.
  • Gateway-based imports can account for and manage object dependencies, reducing failures related to missing or out-of-order prerequisite objects.
  • Data can be cleaned, normalized, and consolidated during the import process instead of requiring separate post-processing steps.
  • Reusable import workflows in Gateway allow network teams to scale routine provisioning tasks while reducing manual effort and time.

Creating host records, IP addresses, and other objects eats up so much of network admins’ time. BlueCat address manager provides basic bulk import capabilities. However, Gateway allows you to extend those capabilities. As a result, you can create smarter and more efficient bulk importing. In this second episode of Making BlueCat Gateway Work For You, learn how to:

  • write logic in Gateway to resolve errors and conflicts,
  • deal with potential dependencies, and
  • clean up and consolidate data as you load it.

We walk through some basic import examples and show you how to extend them. In the end, you can get more done and get more time back.

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