Comments for Daniel Raymer - Monthly Activity Reports http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer Summary of major operational/project activities Thu, 1 May 2008 02:17:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on MAR – Mar 2008 by Daniel Raymer http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-482 Daniel Raymer Thu, 01 May 2008 02:17:49 +0000 http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=37#comment-482 We did perform a very exhausting comparison with Infoblox and VitalQIP. For pure DNS functionality, I cannot say anything bad about Infoblox. They do the job incredibly well and I love the HA capabilities of their appliances. Unfortunately, we needed a robust IPAM/DHCP solution as well. It was obvious through the testing that Infoblox was a DNS company first with IPAM tacked on for good measure. Then again, you can say that it is also obvious that BT INS is IPAM first with DNS tacked on... Bluecat never really entered into the picture and VitalQIP did their best to price themselves out of the picture as quickly as they could. On a pure DNS functionality, I cannot say that BT INS is better or worse than Infoblox. They both perform the job very well. Each has their pro's and con's and it all comes down to what you want to/need/to/can live with. We did perform a very exhausting comparison with Infoblox and VitalQIP.

For pure DNS functionality, I cannot say anything bad about Infoblox. They do the job incredibly well and I love the HA capabilities of their appliances. Unfortunately, we needed a robust IPAM/DHCP solution as well. It was obvious through the testing that Infoblox was a DNS company first with IPAM tacked on for good measure. Then again, you can say that it is also obvious that BT INS is IPAM first with DNS tacked on…

Bluecat never really entered into the picture and VitalQIP did their best to price themselves out of the picture as quickly as they could.

On a pure DNS functionality, I cannot say that BT INS is better or worse than Infoblox. They both perform the job very well. Each has their pro’s and con’s and it all comes down to what you want to/need/to/can live with.

]]> Comment on MAR – Mar 2008 by Darren Ramsey http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-480 Darren Ramsey Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:36:32 +0000 http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=37#comment-480 Did you perform a competitive analysis between BT INS and say Bluecat or Infoblox? Did you perform a competitive analysis between BT INS and say Bluecat or Infoblox?

]]> Comment on MARS for July 07 by Matt! http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-93 Matt! Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:27:47 +0000 http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=28#comment-93 You're not the only one with a forever-long DNS/DHCP project. I keep watching your blog for clues. You’re not the only one with a forever-long DNS/DHCP project. I keep watching your blog for clues.

]]> Comment on MARS for July 07 by Daniel Raymer http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-84 Daniel Raymer Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:12:01 +0000 http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=28#comment-84 GUI Limitations as follows: 1. Cut and paste IP's from one subnet to another. 2. Export Utility within the GUI. 3. Ability to search based on IPAM data. 4. Global sort does not provide the information needed in its output to identify records we are searching to find (The IPAM data for each IP is not displayed). 5. Sorting of web pages on columns is not supported. GUI Limitations as follows:

1. Cut and paste IP’s from one subnet to another.
2. Export Utility within the GUI.
3. Ability to search based on IPAM data.
4. Global sort does not provide the information needed in its output to identify records we are searching to find (The IPAM data for each IP is not displayed).
5. Sorting of web pages on columns is not supported.

]]> Comment on MARS for July 07 by David Ulevitch http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=28&cpage=1#comment-82 David Ulevitch Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:31:14 +0000 http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=28#comment-82 Can you expand a bit on what you mean by "GUI limitations" of the Infoblox device? Can you expand a bit on what you mean by “GUI limitations” of the Infoblox device?

]]> Comment on MAR – Apr 2007 by Matt http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-36 Matt Tue, 08 May 2007 16:51:53 +0000 http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=20#comment-36 You get to test patches, you lucky bastage. And you\\\'ve having the same slapd problem I\\\'m having here. The only thing I\\\'ve found that I don\\\'t THINK we have applied yet is this: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-122476-01-1 Course we\\\'re also running on RHEL4, which I\\\'m not sure you\\\'re running on. You get to test patches, you lucky bastage.

And you\\\’ve having the same slapd problem I\\\’m having here. The only thing I\\\’ve found that I don\\\’t THINK we have applied yet is this: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-122476-01-1

Course we\\\’re also running on RHEL4, which I\\\’m not sure you\\\’re running on.

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