I recently purchased an all VMWare grid with the IPAM with Insight option. I was told that yes you can run bloxtools on the VM Appliance, however the admin guide tells a dfferent story in that you can't on any virtual appliance.
Can Bloxtools be run on the VM Grid, and if so is there a preffered method to do so? I guess I could go into root of the VM'd gridmaster and add the file structure but I was wondering if there was an easier way.
Thanks in advance for the help
In the most recent versions of NIOS, it is not possible to run bloxTools on a VM Grid Member.
Also, it's not possible for you to log in as root on the appliance and add any file structures. Root access is not available.
If bloxTools is something that you are interested in, you have two basic approaches that you can take. One, you could purchase another physical appliance that runs bloxTools or, two, you could always set up the environment on a standard server of your choice and then install the Infoblox API. Bloxtools is not limited only to the Infoblox platform.
There are some other threads that talk about setting up a bloxTools like environment on a standard Linux box.
Thanks Don,
I think I will prgress down the path of installing this on a standalone server, with the Infoblox API. I need to have this done in a very short timespan which cuts out the ability to purchase another appliance.
Just makes me a sad panda, but the job still has to get done.
HI aclease
We have done a lot of work with bloxTools, and, because of this problem (and others), have developed a self installing package for Linux, Solaris or Windows platforms so that we can use Infoblox API away from bloxTools and have more memory, disk and CPU available to us (as well as making support/troubleshooting/development easier)
It comes with a HTTP server which supports SSL and CGI. In your Perl scripts you replace this:
use Infoblox;
my $session = new Infoblox::Session ...
With this:
use TN::Infoblox;
my $session = new TN::Infoblox::Session ... # same arguments
It auto-installs the Infoblox API if not installed, upgrading it if it is installed at the wrong version after a NIOS upgrade, and comes with all pre-requisites required, and lots of other useful Perl modules in its Perl distribution.
If you are interested in it give me a shout via stephen.vickers@tuscanynetworks.com.
Steve
