Network automation and discovery
How quickly can you execute the DNS and IP configuration changes needed to register new devices, stand up infrastructure, or manage permissions? And how easily can you maintain an accurate picture of your ever-growing network footprint?
Automated, customizable workflows
To meet increasingly complex and fluid network requirements, modern DDI solutions need flexibility and customization.
Standard, one-size-fits-all feature sets aren’t a good fit with the dynamic nature of networking needs.
The smart move is to use a DDI solution supported by a platform for developing and deploying modular automated workflows that:
The smart move is to use a DDI solution supported by a platform for developing and deploying modular automated workflows that:
BlueCat Gateway is a python-based platform that brings together all the building blocks for automating DNS operations into a simple and intuitive development environment—using an API with a set of Python classes for integrating third-party solutions with BlueCat Address Manager, DNS/DHCP Server, or Edge.
Gateway can be deployed on a BlueCat Integrity DNS/DHCP server appliance.
BlueCat’s Adaptive Catalog is a library of adaptive applications and plugins that integrate DDI data with a comprehensive (and growing) ecosystem of network, security, and cloud vendors.
Infrastructure deployment automation
To build and deploy apps without slowing business down, more DevOps and cloud teams are automating infrastructure deployment using Terraform.
But it can take weeks to stand up and tear down cloud infrastructure using manual DDI processes. So DevOps and cloud teams create workarounds and employ shadow IT.
The Terraform BlueCat Provider plugin automates DDI configuration management through code. With automated infrastructure deployment using Terraform and BlueCat’s plugin, network teams can safely and predictably monitor, create, change, and improve network infrastructure.
Automated network analysis
Your network grows bigger, faster, and more complex everyday. You need automated network analysis to understand how policy events impact network performance and security metrics.
The BlueCat Splunk integration seamlessly passes relevant DNS query data to Splunk (determined by a risk detection filter) for analysis and correlation with other network service data.
Your security team can gain full-context insight into your DNS attack surface in real time, all while controlling Splunk data volume costs.
Automated provisioning
To keep from drowning in an avalanche of routine IT tasks, network teams need the tools to vet, approve, and fulfill self-service requests—for everything from device registration to automated cloud deployment.
BlueCat provides a range of adaptive plugins to help network teams quickly and automatically validate the influx of self-service tickets from IT service management tools like ServiceNow, OpenStack, and vRO.
Additional features
End-to-end automation
Seamlessly integrate your DNS with all your critical network applications to automatically meet continually changing DNS and IP requirements.
Self-service
Automate IT service requests with built-in web forms for device registration, onboarding, configuration, permissions management, or anything else you can imagine.
Workflow management
Simplify change and workflow management by refining automated processes in an intuitive testing environment to get them production-ready before pushing live.
Out-of-the-box plugins
Use pre-made workflows created by BlueCat to automate standard DDI management processes, deploy self-service, and gather DDI data.
Community offerings
Join our community of customer developers and experiment with the open-source, community-developed Python scripts available through the BlueCat Labs.
DIY customization
Build on the existing scripts and code snippets used by BlueCat admins to accelerate your own automation projects.
See and control your whole network from one place
Your network is growing faster and in multiple directions.
First, you need to serve more users and devices, dispersed across more regions. Second, you need to support fast-moving cloud and DevOps teams to stand up new apps and services in whatever environment suits their needs.
To help your business grow securely, you need an accurate and real-time understanding of IP assignments across your whole network, so you can:
It’s hard to stay ahead of growing network complexity, but Network Discovery with Integrity makes it easier.
Network discovery provides real-time visibility into every device and service connected to your on-premise and cloud networks, making it easy for network teams to automate complex changes within growing and dynamic IP spaces.
When you build and work across multiple public and private cloud environments, the harder it is to maintain a clear picture of your IP space.
Cloud Discovery & Visibility automatically discovers, inventories and synchronizes cloud-based IP and DNS configurations—between any data center and cloud environment.
Related solutions
Network observability and health
BlueCat’s network observability and health solutions protect the performance, security, and uptime of your core services, firewalls and load balancers.
Unified DDI
Centralize and visualize your DNS, DHCP, and IPAM solutions into one automated and secure foundation—with proactive observability and auto-triage.
Multicloud management
Discover and synchronize IP and DNS across hybrid and multicloud environments, and resolve across all DNS zones for every cloud type.
