About ManageEngine DDI Central

DDI Central for Microsoft DNS & DHCP clusters
Installation & Setup
1. Windows (.exe) Installer for Windows-only environments or Linux (.bin) Installer for managing both Windows & Linux DNS-DHCP clusters in one interface
2. Windows Lightweight Node Agent configuration^New
3. Create Microsoft clusters & Onboard Microsoft DNS & DHCP servers
4. Windows Server Credential Management
5. Windows Server Bulk Import
6. Onboard Users & Create Contact Groups
7. DNS & DHCP Role Based Access Controls
8. Configure the SMTP server & setup secure SMTP authentication using OAuth with Google & Microsoft Azure
9. Setup Login Authentication through SAML Single Sign-On (SSO), LDAP, & Two-factor authentication (2FA)
10. Configuring Windows Appconsole Failover in DDI Central
11. Configuring Remote Database in DDI Central
12. Configuring Custom SSL Certificates in DDI Central Windows
Microsoft DNS zone management
1. Create, update, or bulk-import Authoritative Zones
2. Adding Active Directory Domains in Windows
3. Setup Reverse DNS Lookups
4. Managing & Unmanaging DNS Domains
5. Manage Zone Scopes
6. Create/Manage DNS Resource Records with DNS Zone Editor
7. Seamlessly Export/Import DNS Records
8. Manage Stub Zones & Forwarders
9. Sign domains with DNSSEC
10. Manage Dynamic IPs for zones using Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
11. View DNS Zone Versions
Configuring Microsoft DNS settings & policies
1. Create Clientsubnets
2. Block malicious domains using DNS Firewall
3. Customize query traffic routing with DNS Query Resolution Policies (QRPs)
4. Mitigate DNS amplification attacks using Response Rate Limiting (RRL) Settings & manage RRL Exception List to allow trusted queries
5. Reduce latency for domain lookups with DNS Recursion Settings & Forwarder Settings
6. Configuring DNS Cache settings
DNS audits, reports, & analytics
1. Domain Query & Response Analytics
2. Review DNS Audit Logs
3. Purge stale DNS records with DNS Scavenging reports
4. Schedule DNS Reports
Microsoft DHCP scope management
1. Configure Subnets & Multicast Subnets
2. Managing & Unmanaging DHCP Subnets in Windows
3. Configure Static Subnets & import Static Leases
4. Configure DHCP reservations
5. Configure Shared Networks or Superscopes
6. Define & manage VLANs
7. Visualize & organize scopes with DHCP Scope Tree
8. Import Subnets & Hosts in bulk using CSV files
Configuring Microsoft DHCP settings & policies
1. Automate IP assignments with DHCP Policies
2. Configure DHCP Failover for high availability
3. Allow or deny hosts into a subnet using DHCP MAC Filtering
4. Create Vendor Classes & User Classes
5. Customize DHCP settings for Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Zones
6. Deploy standard Windows DHCP Options
7. Define Custom Options
8. Automate the distribution of bootfiles to devices in the network using Windows PXE Boot
DHCP audits, reports, & analytics
1. Review DHCP Audit Logs
2. Schedule DHCP Reports
IP address management for Microsoft servers
1. Gain complete visibility over the IPAM Stats Dashboard: Unified view, Site view, Cluster view, & Supernet view
2. Gain detailed analysis into DHCP leases, Static leases, & IP lease history or IP Summary
3. Manage VLAN IPv4 + IPv6 inventories
4. Manage Subnet IPv4 +IPv6 address inventories
DDI Central Admin Controls
1. Track the System Metrics of managed DNS & DHCP servers
2. Flush DNS Cache
3. Server Reconfiguration
4. DNS & DHCP Service Rediscovery
5. Configure DDI management preferences using DDI Central System Settings
6. Built-in Alerts for key DNS, DHCP, & IPAM events
7. Forecast DNS Queries
8. Forecast DHCP leases
Cisco DHCP
1. Adding Cisco Routers
2. Configuring DHCP pool data for DHCPv4
3. Configuring DHCP pool data for DHCPv6
4. Excluding address range.
DDI Central REST API
1. DDI Central REST API for Microsoft Windows DNS & DHCP servers
2. Receive API responses in your preferred language with Multi-Language Support
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. DDI Central FAQs on Windows DNS & DHCP servers

DDI Central for Linux DNS & DHCP clusters
Installation & Setup
1. .bin installer (Installing DDI Central via .bin files helps manage both Windows & Linux DNS-DHCP clusters from DDI Central's unified interface)
2. For appliance migrants: GSS-TSIG for secure interoperability between DDI Central console & Windows AD Domain Controllers
3. Create Linux Clusters
4. Onboard Linux DNS & DHCP servers
5. Discover all advanced DNS, DHCP & IP address configurations
6. Rsyslog & Live logs for DNS/DHCP servers
7. Onboard Users & create Contact Groups
8. DNS & DHCP Role Based Access Controls
9. Configure the SMTP server & setup secure SMTP authentication using OAuth with Google & Microsoft Azure
10. Setup Login Authentication through SAML Single Sign-On (SSO), LDAP, & Two-factor authentication (2FA)
11. High Availability (HA) Setup for DNS-DHCP Servers
12. Discover domains in Root Jail
13. Configuring Appconsole Failover- HotStanby Engine in DDI Central
14. Configuring Remote Database in DDI Central
15. Adding NTP Servers
16. Monitoring NTP Server key performance stats
17. Adding a Proxy server
19. Configuring Custom SSL Certificates in DDI Central for Linux
DNS zone management
1. Create Authoritative Zones
2. Create Reverse Zones
3. Managing/Unmanaging DNS Domains in Linux
4. Create DNS Response Policy Zones (RPZ)
5. Create DNS Forwarders
6. Configure/Enable DNS Recursion
7. Import domains in bulk
8. Create/Manage DNS Records
9. Monitor DNS records of a zone
10. Import & export zone records
11. Sign records with DNSSEC
12. Create & Manage DNS Views
13. View DNS Zone Versions
Configuring security settings & special policies
2. Configure DNS options
3. Block domains & redirect traffic using DNS Firewall
4. Configure Access Control Lists (ACLs)
5. Manage Response Rate Limiting (RRL) policies
6. Secure DNS transactions with Transaction Signature (TSIG) Key Templates
7. Facilitate interoperability between IPv6-only clients & IPv4-only servers with DNS64 Policies
8. Configure DNS over TLS (DoT)/DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
9. Configure DNS Root Hint
DNS audits, reports, & analytics
1. Domain Query & Response Analytics
2. Review DNS Audit Logs
3. Purge stale DNS records by scheduling DNS Scavenging reports
4. Schedule DNS Lookup Reports
Legacy DHCP Scope Management
1. Configure Subnets & customize policies for address pools within a subnet
2. Managing and Unmanaging DHCP Subnets in Linux
3. Configure Static Subnets & import Static Leases
4. Configure Shared Networks
5. Configure VLANs
6. Manage Fixed IP Hosts (DHCP reservations) & Host groups
7. Import Subnets & Hosts in bulk using CSV files
8. Visualize & organize scopes using DHCP Scope Tree
Modern DHCP (Kea) Management^New
1. Configure Modern DHCP (Kea) DHCP Failover
2. Migrating DHCP from Legacy to Modern
3. Configure Modern DHCP (Kea) Subnets
4. Managing & Unmanaging DHCP Subnets in Linux
5. Configure Modern DHCP (Kea) Static Subnets & import Static Leases
6. Manage Modern DHCP (Kea) Fixed IP Hosts (DHCP reservations)
7. Import Subnets & Hosts in bulk using CSV files
8. Visualize & organize scopes using DHCP Scope Tree
9. Hardware Block List
10. Modern (Kea) DHCPv4 Options
11. Modern (Kea) DHCPv6 Options
Configuring DHCP settings & policies
1. Automate IP assignments with DHCP fingerprinting policies deploying Client Classes
2. Configure DHCP Failover for high availability
3. Configure standard DHCP Service Options, DHCPv4 Options, DHCPv6 Options, Relay Agent Options, Client FQDN Suboptions, & Netware/IP Suboptions for different scope levels
4. Define Custom Options & configure them globally or under a specific scope level
5. Configuring DHCP templates in the DHCP clusters
6. Automate the distribution of Boot files using PXE Boot Templates
7. Managing Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Zones
8. Rogue Detection: DHCP Server
DHCP audits, reports, & analytics
1. Review DHCP Audit Logs
2. Schedule DHCP reports
IP address management for Linux servers
1. Gain complete visibility over the IPAM Stats Dashboard: Unified view, Site view, Cluster view, & Supernet view
2. Gain detailed analysis into DHCP leases, Static leases, & IP lease history or IP Summary
4. Manage VLAN IP address inventory
5. Manage Subnet IPv4 & IPv6 address inventories
DDI Admin Controls
1. Scheduling DNS & DHCP configurations
2. Track the System Metrics of managed DNS & DHCP servers
3. Flush DNS Cache
4. Configure DDI management preferences using System Settings
5. Built-in Alerts for key DNS, DHCP, & IPAM events
6. Forecast DNS Queries
7. Forecast DHCP leases
8. Server IP Change in Linux
Cisco DHCP
1. Adding Cisco Routers
2. Configuring DHCP pool data for DHCPv4
3. Configuring DHCP pool data for DHCPv6
4. Excluding address range.
DDI Central REST API
1. DDI Central REST API for Linux DNS & DHCP servers
2. Receive API responses in your preferred language with Multi-Language Support
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. DDI Central FAQs on Linux DNS & DHCP servers

Cloud Observability in DDI Central
1. Cloud Observabilty Cluster: Overview
2. Creating Provider Profile for Cloud Observability
Multivendor DNS integration
Multivendor DHCP & IPAM integration
1. AWS + DDI Central
2. All-in-One AWS Resources Dashboard
3. Monitoring AWS VPCs & Subnets
4. Tracking EC2 Resources
5. Visualizing AWS ECS Services
6. Monitoring RDS Databases
ManageEngine Ecosystem Integration
1. Overview
2. Setting up Endpoint Central integration
3. Endpoint insights in DDI Central
1. Overview
2. Setting up OpManager integration
3. OpManager insights in DDI Central

Threat intelligence
Anomaly detection

User Guide