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?

Network automation and discovery makes it simple to see and execute DDI changes across your network without slowing users down or creating risk.

End-to-end visibility

Discover and synchronize your data center and multicloud footprint in one place

Automate manual tasks

Create self-service forms that automate IT requests

Standardize safe workflows

Eliminate manual errors

Accelerate innovation

Help cloud and DevOps teams build faster

Seamless, cross-system workflows

Get more value from your existing IT investments

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:

  • Simplify repetitive DDI tasks for network teams
  • Accelerate building and deploying apps and services for cloud and DevOps teams
  • Empower end users with self-service (and zero training) access to DNS services
  • Reduce risk, minimize errors, and eliminate security threats
  • Maximize the value of existing investments by exposing DNS data to the IT stack
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Integrate DDI to enhance any system or application

Everything your network touches runs on DDI.

The more fluidly you can integrate your DDI solution with the network, security, and cloud tools your enterprise runs on, the more you can replace manual network administration with powerful network automation. That means:

Network teams

can eliminate the manual grind of assigning IP addresses

Security teams

can effortlessly enforce policy-driven DNS security

Cloud and DevOps

can self-serve the DDI changes they need to build apps and services

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.

Automate cloud provisioning

Provision and deallocate cloud resources at the speed your users require—accelerating DevOps and minimizing shadow IT.

Integrate everywhere

Integrate Gateway with almost any application out-of-the-box— empowering sophisticated end-to-end automation.

Support self-service

Empower users with automated DNS workflows, accessed through a self-service portal, to make and request DNS changes (like device registration or server provisioning) automatically.

Zero-touch administration

Automate backend functions, like failover for BlueCat Address Manager, to increase resiliency while minimizing human intervention.

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.

See the Adaptive Catalog

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.

See Terraform plugin

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.

See Splunk integration

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.

See ServiceNow integration

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:

  • Understand what devices are on the network
  • Resolve errors quickly to minimize downtime
  • Minimize IP provisioning conflicts between devices
  • assign IP addresses to critical apps and services

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.

Real-time insights

Discover your network as it really is — see every device and service, and eliminate every blind spot.

Easy capacity planning

Identify and reclaim unused IP addresses to get the most from your network resources and avoid unnecessary sprawl.

Automated optimization

Create automated processes that track and manage IP address utilization to prevent conflicts and ensure network efficiency.

Enhanced security

Quickly identify rogue devices and unauthorized activity.

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.

Centralized management

Keep a central source of truth for your IP environment across multiple clouds and data centers within one address manager

Smart discovery

Use inherited security policies to skip manual authentication and find your cloud workloads faster

Faster troubleshooting

Automate the reconciliation of IP addresses and DNS records to shorten investigations and remediate issues quickly

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Unified DDI

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Multicloud management

Discover and synchronize IP and DNS across hybrid and multicloud environments, and resolve across all DNS zones for every cloud type.

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Security

DNS network security that helps you detect threats and prevent attacks, continuously verify queries and endpoints, and resolve security incidents faster.

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