Adonis Administration (DNS/DHCP)
Adonis Administration is a 15-hour, instructor-led course intended for customers who are using the Adonis platform without the Proteus IPAM capabilities. The course provides students with a functional understanding of how to implement, manage and maintain the Adonis appliances using the Adonis Management Console (AMC).
Topics Covered
Adonis Administration is broken into discrete modules that teach students how to:
- Deploy DNS and DHCP configurations
- Import existing DNS configurations
- Understand Adonis security features
- Configure BIND views
- Configure integration with Microsoft Active Directory
- Configure crossover high availability (XHA)
- Configure DHCP failover
- Manage user within Adonis
Audience
This course is intended for systems administrators and systems engineers who are responsible for implementing, managing and maintaining DNS and DHCP systems.
Prerequisites
Course attendees should have a strong understanding of networking concepts; TCP/IP protocols; and a strong grasp of DNS, DHCP and IPv4 addressing.
Course Outline
DNS and DHCP Fundamentals
- What is DNS and the DNS namespace?
- DNS and DHCP client/server communication
- Resource record types and their functions
Adonis Physical Setup
- Password types and their uses
- Configuring the Adonis server
- Using the Administration Console
Introduction to the Management Console
- Installing the Management Console
- Creating DNS and DHCP configurations
- Working with project files
Configuring DNS
- Adding the DNS service
- Zone creation and maintenance
- DNS levels and options
- Zone templates
BIND Views
- Configuring BIND views
- Setting the matching order
- Setting the published and virtual addresses
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Importing DNS Files
- Installing the Management Console
- Importing a BIND DNS configuration
- Importing a Microsoft DNS configuration
- Conducting a live zone import
Security Features
- Securing Adonis communications
- Certificate management
- Firewall settings and version response
- Transaction Signatures (TSIGs)
Active Directory Integration
- Active Directory integration scenarios
- Configuring an Active Directory zone
- Active Directory options in DNS
- SRV record registration in Adonis
Configuring DHCP
- DHCP options
- Class and host declarations
- Importing a Microsoft DNS configuration
- Configuring MAC filtering
- Creating a vendor profile
Dynamic DNS
- Understand DDNS
- Certificate management
- Configuring DNS and DHCP for DDNS
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Crossover High Availability
- Understanding high availability options
- Maintaining, repairing, updating and breaking an XHA cluster
DHCP Failover
- Relationship, communication and normal operation of a failover environment
- Failover configuration and settings
MAC Authentication
- Configuring MAC authentication
- Configuring MAD servers and authenticators
- Adding MAC authentication pools
User Management
- Enabling user management
- Creating user and group accounts
- Assigning access rights
- Using external authenticators
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