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Charting the course: DDI Central’s vision ahead

 
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Cisco DHCP services are now integrated with DDI Central under IOS-XE and IOS-XR support. With this integration, DHCP services running on routers, switches, and service provider—class routers can be centrally monitored and managed from DDI Central. This gives you the best of both worlds—flexibility to run local DHCP at branch or edge sites, along with centralized visibility and control. The integration also synchronizes DHCP lease data with DNS records and IPAM, ensuring accurate, real-time device tracking and eliminating IP conflicts.
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DDI Central now facilitates Anomaly detection for both Linux and Windows environments, where network admins gain visual summary over the reports of DNS and DHCP service anomalies.
For DNS, it can detect high volume queries, unusual and long domains, non existing domains, high-entropy domains, excessive sub domains, suspicious TLDs, outbound queries, periodic queries.
For DHCP, it can detect DHCP starvation attacks, rogue DHCP servers, invalid packets, repeated requests, IP address conflicts, unusual option codes, excessive lease renewals, and high rate of DHCP declines.
DDI Central anomaly detection can also be facilitated via the integration of Zoho's AI engine, Zia, for an effective, accurate, and advance threat identification within the network. This integration will leverage advanced machine learning models to detect and prevent DNS-based threats such as domain generation algorithms (DGAs), suspicious query patterns, and DNS tunneling, threats that often bypass traditional firewalls.
Zia-based Anomaly detection would support:
    Real-time anomaly detection based on query behavior and usage patterns.
  • Adaptive reputation scoring of domains by analyzing data across global intelligence feeds.
  • Predictive alerts that identify potentially malicious DNS activity before it leads to a breach.
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The DNS records within a specific zone can now be monitored through the record monitoring system for the zones. This also displays visual analytics data of all the DNS records in that specific zone. PING monitor and TCP monitor will be supported.
DNS Record failover involving primary and secondary DNS server IPs associated with the zones' records, helps provide a consistent service for users when the primary IP goes down, preventing network disruption.
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DNS records within a zone can now be selectively enabled or disabled, giving administrators more control over how records are managed. When a record is disabled, it will not be published or pushed to the active DNS servers, ensuring it does not resolve for client queries. However, the record is still securely stored in the database servers, allowing administrators to retain it for future use, auditing, or quick reactivation without needing to recreate the entry.