The Men & Mice Suite
The Men & Mice Suite is a management software solution built to meet the challenges of DNS, DHCP and IP address management in large computer networks.
The Men & Mice approach to the problems of IP address management is not to throw away an organization’s investment in existing infrastructure or to make radical changes to the organization’s network unless it is needed. Rather, the Men & Mice Suite complements the existing server investment by providing a non-intrusive and sophisticated management layer on top of them.
Men & Mice Suite Overview
Optimized for large corporate networks, the Men & Mice Suite provides unique value in managing multiple DNS and DHCP servers.
Unified global overview of the IP infrastructure allows administrators to manage hundreds of servers, thousands of DNS zones and DHCP scopes, and millions of IP addresses in a secure manner. Eliminating duplicate efforts in IP administration, decreased network downtime, reduced lead time in network changes and reduced support significantly increases administration efficiency. Regulatory compliance is secured through logging of all activities in real time.
Men & Mice Suite Management Modules
The Men & Mice Suite contains the following application modules:
The modules build on the Men & Mice Suite framework, and are designed to work with the existing servers and technologies, providing administrators with unified, secure and sophisticated interfaces to multiple servers.
Each module can be licensed independently of the others, but the real value of the Men & Mice Suite is realized as a powerful, integrated solution for DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management. Working together, the modules provide a unique management solution that enables organizations to keep track of their IP address space, individual hosts on the network, and their associations in DNS and DHCP.
Men & Mice Suite main Features and Benefits
Being a true Overlay management solution the Men & Mice Suite provides the missing enterprise management capabilities to the standard DNS and DHCP services. No replacement of existing infrastructure is needed to realize full management capabilities to continuously growing networks.
Integrating DNS, DHCP and IP address management provides important tools to improve workflow, manageability and security in the IP infrastructure and significantly reduce risk of human errors in uncontrolled and manual processes. New services like VoIP and mobile devices and increasing geographic dispersion adds to the complexity and requires flexibility in management of the IP address space.
The main benefits are:
- Better manageability of IP infrastructure through a unified global overview
- Improved security
- Decrease in network down time and reduced time spent in problem solving
- Increased efficiency through elimination of duplicate efforts in IP administration
- Reduced lead time in network changes
- Reduced helpdesk support
- Regulatory compliance through logging of all activities in real time
- Non-intrusive, low risk and low cost deployment
The main features are:
- Non-intrusive, easy deployment
- Global IP address, DNS and DHCP configuration overview.
- Intuitive user interface, highly adaptable through custom fields
- Role-based users access control
- Mass updates across servers
- Automation of routine tasks
- Powerful reporting capabilities
- Advanced scheduling to run scripts and backups
- Complete audit trail showing all changes and user activity
- Input validation and error checking
- Full support of Active Directory integrated zones
- Integration with Microsoft AD Sites and Services
- Tracking of DHCP lease history
- Easy to use DHCP split-scope configuration tools and scope migration wizard for Microsoft environment
- Support for Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
- Advanced search and update functionality through Quick filters
- IP discovery
- Support for IPv6 on network level
- Support for DNSSEC zones and integration with Secure64 DNSSEC signer
- Microsoft single sign-on
- Ping before assignment
- Support for Cisco DHCP servers using SSH
- Failover support for ISC DHCP servers
- Full Integration between DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management
- Customizable web browser interface designed for departmental operators
- Integration options for external systems through SOAP interface
- Highly scalable solution ready to run in virtual environment
- Works fully in hybrid server infrastructures (mixed MS and Unix environments)
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