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VitalQIP Product Description

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RFC

Request for Comments, IETF documents defining the many facets of
the Internet Protocol

RFE

Request for Enhancement

RMON

Remote Monitoring, a "probe" which counts packets, bytes and other
information for IP traffic monitoring and reporting.

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol, connection oriented transport layer
protocol of the TCP/IP suite.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator; e.g., http://www.Alcatel-Lucent.com

APPENDIX II: AVAILABILITY AND ORDERING

VitalQIP is available today. Please see contact the local sales or partner for pricing and additional
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Summary of Contents for VitalQIP 7.3

Page 1: ...VitalQIP 7 3 DNS DHCP IP Address Management Solution Product Description guide...

Page 2: ...zing the address space effectively and efficiency 7 1 3 6 What s New with the VitalQIP Next Generation Platform 8 1 4 Benefits 9 2 Product Capabilities 10 2 1 Core Product 11 2 1 1 User interface 11 2...

Page 3: ...5 Operations and administration 43 5 1 Security 43 5 2 Disaster Recovery 44 6 VitalQIP 7 3 new Features 44 6 1 1 New next generation web based GUI 44 6 1 2 Global Search Engine 45 6 1 3 VisualIP space...

Page 4: ...ce was subnetted and which addresses were assigned where Now fifteen years later and over 850 customers worldwide VitalQIP is still the industry leading product The basic requirements of IP Address Ma...

Page 5: ...P address was critical to communicate the request over an IP network A directory like function was needed to provide a node name to IP address this function evolved to what we now know as the Domain N...

Page 6: ...a reasonably sound understanding of binary arithmetic is required for proper subnetting Today and in the future the complexity of subnetting growing networks and even as far as the introduction of IP...

Page 7: ...g and when Historically there was not as much concerns of rogue devices appearing on a network or rogue users because the IP Address Space was not as limited and things like security break ins did not...

Page 8: ...pplication introduces new features as well as look and feel to continue to provide the most cutting edge solution in the market today With today s increased focus on converged technologies the acceler...

Page 9: ...over capabilities and multiple DNS server redundancy maximize availability of IP address and name services to clients keeping them productive despite failures Flexibility to support existing BIND or M...

Page 10: ...and through implementation of customer suggestions the product has evolved over the years to ensure that existing customers and future customers and continue to leverage the most proven product in th...

Page 11: ...ed over the years from offering multiple interfaces to now focusing on the next generation platform offering a new web based GUI Web 2 0 Web GUI Command Line Interface Soap XML interface C C API Vital...

Page 12: ...talQIP functions into a larger management system infrastructure may choose this interface The API provides a rich set of C C calls 2 1 2 Features The following are the key features of the VitalQIP pro...

Page 13: ...cal storage and reporting of IP and MAC addresses DHCP lease actions such as grant renew release and decline lease expiration dates and VitalQIP IP object adds modifies and deletes ENUM Manager Simpli...

Page 14: ...on products MyView Tab MyView Management Allows for the administration and set up of personal views shared views or myView to be set up for users or shared by users This enables a master or organizati...

Page 15: ...nistration of DNS related configuration parameters Zones Add modify and delete of DNS forward and reverse zones as well as Bind DNS Views DNS servers Add modify and delete of DNS servers Including all...

Page 16: ...ibutes themselves and attribute groups 1 Attributes are individual pieces of information you want to associate with items in the VitalQIP Database Examples could be Employee Badge Number Manager s Nam...

Page 17: ...an offline mode even when it is not connected to VitalQIP database The same profile information is then used to extract the corresponding data from VitalQIP VitalQIP AutoDiscovery includes a configura...

Page 18: ...hree components of a discovery job A fourth request handler not shown in the illustration permits all components to be run as a single request 2 1 4 Flexibility in Supporting Multi Vendor Solution Vit...

Page 20: ...lQIP functions It is intended to serve those applications that must invoke VitalQIP functions but cannot or should not use the existing command line utilities Each API routine returns an integer indic...

Page 21: ...net community The AMS appliance provides the Nagios server which appliance customers can use the web based GUI to monitor all aspects of VitalQIP and the appliance management system Nagios also allows...

Page 22: ...ile information and DHCP Bootp objects managed by the server Administrator Profile Report Report of a specified administrator s profile information Administrative Role Report Reports specified Adminis...

Page 23: ...ility of deploying on a Server or Alcatel Lucent Appliance Solution The user interface delivers a true Windows look and feel An icon driven hierarchy makes for easier navigation Maintains asset and ot...

Page 24: ...n be based on an Oracle or Sybase engine and can reside on a Sun Solaris Windows Redhat Linux or Alcatel Lucent Appliance Alcatel Lucent Technologies currently ships VitalQIP software with a run time...

Page 25: ...ftware customers can easily create a base of network and customer information that allows defining and managing subnets and network services The Lucent DHCP and DNS Servers allow leveraging key inform...

Page 26: ...erberos network authentication protocol Single Login for VitalQIP software VitalQIP software supports a single database login eliminating a database level login for each VitalQIP software administrato...

Page 27: ...d database access security and to customize the failure result message e g instructing the user to contact the help desk Redundant Schedule Service Schedule Service redundancy has been implemented in...

Page 28: ...curity or did not previously exist the access control information for the entry is updated such that only the updater and administrators is allowed to make changes to the entry There is one exception...

Page 29: ...t DHCP Server supports a many to one hot fail over to another DHCP server in the event of server outage This feature provides the high availability and reliability required for IP address services DNS...

Page 30: ...rsions Corporate extensions allow for additional directives statements to be included in named boot and named conf files Domain extensions provide the ability to include data files not managed by Vita...

Page 31: ...rfaces can be dynamically updated to primary and secondary DNS servers Alcatel Lucent provides the additional functionality to secondary DNS servers so corporations could point a client s primary reso...

Page 32: ...st names currently active in a DHCP server s lease files Alcatel Lucent has implemented several new policies that are included in the VitalQIP software release DHCP Intelligent Templates By re using i...

Page 33: ...vendor s DHCP can interoperate with any other vendor s DHCP as a fail over server Currently Alcatel Lucent Technologies is the only vendor to provide a DHCP server based on the fail over draft Fail ov...

Page 34: ...tracks DHCP lease information VitalQIP static and dynamic object definitions and Domain Controller login logout information A domain controller is a system dedicated to processing user authentication...

Page 35: ...purposes It can be used for determining server placements and load balancing Any status change can result in an alert for example like a DNS process or the message service process Alerts are handled t...

Page 36: ...hen creates the device associates them both and assigns a User Class At this point QIP will update the DHCP cache with the MAC User Class mapping When the device comes onto the network it already exis...

Page 37: ...inistering ENUM records is via a VitalQIP ENUM Web GUI The ENUM Manager GUI allows an administrator to manually create update delete and search the NAPTR records The administrator simply populates a f...

Page 38: ...solving many issues with their architectures and can be rolled out all at once or incrementally over time The following are some benefits to this option Customer Issue or Need How we address the issu...

Page 39: ...s space and reliably deliver critical IP name and address services In step with new technology and services VoIP ENUM RFID IPv6 Mobile HSD and IP Video etc The VitalQIP Appliance Manager AM solution h...

Page 40: ...lized Appliance Management Software AMS maintains and inventory of software packages and appliances A Secure token based appliance authentication process keeps the network secure Configuration of serv...

Page 41: ...e quickly taken offline if suspicious behavior is observed providing even more security around the overall architecture In addition any appliance can be rebooted from the centralized AMS Appliance Arc...

Page 42: ...nces On a traditional server VitalQIP supports Sun Solaris Window and Redhat Linux for the Enterprise server On the Alcatel Lucent Appliance Redhat Linux is supported 3 2 2 High Availability Architect...

Page 43: ...faces or from CLI commands This is further enhanced by the ability to deploy VitalQIP architecture on a full appliance based solution This easies not only the set up but also the administration and pa...

Page 44: ...y This means that a single secondary DHCP server can be the backup for multiple primary DHCP servers located at different sites The transition between primary and secondary servers is totally transpar...

Page 45: ...Address Allocation etc Customers who need to search across different modules have to execute multiple searches or create scripts to accomplish the search Users have the ability to create new search pr...

Page 46: ...ce Visual IP Space will allow administrators to quickly add modify and delete objects as well as review status of all objects on each subnet Visual IP space can be used as the only screen administrato...

Page 47: ...e appliance or through appliance group from the AMS GUI This helps the AMS GUI administrator to plan in advance and schedule the package deployment during off peak hours 7 1 2 SNMP on the AMS SNMP on...

Page 48: ...yslog Servers enable AMS GUI users to define up to a maximum of 10 remote logging servers for each individual appliance from AM 1 7 onwards 8 IMPLEMENTATION CONFIGURATION AND TESTING SOFTWARE INTEGRAT...

Page 49: ...uest The VitalQIP roadmap is updated monthly and is available internally at http insolutions web Alcatel Lucent com go roadmap access shtml APPENDIX I ACRONYM GLOSSARY API Application Programming Inte...

Page 50: ...e TCP IP suite URL Uniform Resource Locator e g http www Alcatel Lucent com APPENDIX II AVAILABILITY AND ORDERING VitalQIP is available today Please see contact the local sales or partner for pricing...

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