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Hi everyone,I wanted to share that my last day as Community Manager will be June 30.It has been an absolute pleasure to be the community manager for Network VIP and to get to know you all and work on building this space for you. It has always been such a highlight of my job to organize community events and advocate for the community whenever and however I could.Thank you for your kindness and openness with me and with us all on the community. Your participation is really what makes the ultimate difference. Thank you for making this community what it is. I’ve truly appreciated every interaction. I will be around to help until June 30th, and then ​@anna.kim will be your main point of contact until the next community manager starts. You will be in great hands. All my best if we don’t cross paths again :) 

Hi,I’m documenting the physical locations of our new GEN5 appliances in our datacentre inventory system (Netbox under the hood), and looking for some nice images for the front/back of these devices.Anyone know of any appropriate for this?(Had a look at https://github.com/netbox-community/devicetype-library, but there’s nothing Bluecat-shaped there.)Best wishes,David

We are introducing DNS Splitview/Split Horizon at the moment. We have to Views on our BDDS Server, one external view and one internal view. BDDS is hidden Primary for both views. We have two PowerDNS servers as authoritative secondaries for the external view and two PowerDNS servers as auth secondary for the internal view. The deployment roles in the view are set to these servers.We use the supermaster feature of PowerDNS for zone transfer.The external view is working as expected. In the internal view the zone transfer is not really working it seems like the internal PowerDNS server seems to query the external view on the BDDS.How can we achive the split view in this setup? Is there a design error in our setup? 

Hi all, I just wanted to post a quick message that I’ll be out of office for most of March, from Mar 6 — Mar 28th. In my absence, please contact ​@amartyn who will be covering. You’re in great hands. Alternatively, you can also email community@bluecatnetworks.com. —Quick updates before I head out: Integrity Beta Integrity 26.1 starts on March 9th and emails go out to you all on March 10th. Once you’re approved and in the Integrity 26.1 Beta Group, you’ll need to submit a form to get the license keys from the product management team. If you need specific help with the beta and are having trouble you can email integrity-feedback@bluecatnetworks.com Integrity User Group Integrity user group will skip March and be back at the end of April. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback in the survey. Expect a little more structure for the next user group. We are also considering opening up topics to be submitted ahead of time. Does the community like the idea of submitting topics? Please let

BlueCat introduces BlueCat Horizon, a SaaS-first Intelligent NetOps platform for cross-domain network operations The platform delivers a unified control plane for DNS, DHCP, IPAM, security, and observability, empowering rapid, automated action across networks BlueCat Horizon offers a shared control plane for network services, policy, identity, telemetry, analytics, automation, and AI-assisted intelligence. This unified approach platform lets teams apply consistent governance, correlate signals, surface prioritized insights, and take coordinated action across DNS, DHCP, IPAM, security, and network performance, enabling networks to automatically adapt and remediate issues as conditions change, without forcing infrastructure replacement or disruptive migrations.Built for cloud-first and hybrid environments, the platform’s initial offering is Horizon DDI. It provides a common orchestration plane for third-party infrastructure and BlueCat-native solutions. By managing existing Microsoft Act

Hi all, I just wanted to share some news with the community that came out today. Just in case it may be of interest to the community.BlueCat just announced our upcoming Horizon platform. What is Horizon? In short, it’s “a SaaS-first Intelligent NetOps platform for cross-domain network operations”. You can read a bit more about BlueCat Horizon in the press release on the BlueCat site which describes it in more detail.Link: https://bluecatnetworks.com/press/bluecat-introduces-bluecat-horizon-a-saas-first-intelligent-netops-platform-for-cross-domain-network-operations/Let me know if you have any initial thoughts or questions. 

Upcoming BlueCat Speaking Sessions at Cisco Live Amsterdam Architecting Always-On: Balancing Agility, Security, and AI-Driven Resilience with BlueCat, OpenGear & IP Fabric 📆Monday 9th February, 12:45📍Center Stage theater (Moderated Panel Session)👤 Ronny Wolf, BlueCat Networks Intelligent Network Operations  📆Tue 10th Feb, 12:30📍 Speaker’s Corner👤 Ronny Wolf, EMEA Field CTO, BlueCat NetworksSession Code: SPC-1629 Rapid cloud adoption, hybrid work, and the expanding threat landscape are putting unprecedented pressure on network teams. As organizations lean more heavily on distributed environments, modernizing foundational core services—DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI)—has become essential for agility, resilience, and security. Attendees will hear how BlueCat’s Intelligent Network Operations (NetOps) model unifies DDI, automation, and deep network intelligence to improve change readiness and operational efficiency across Cisco-centric architectures. The session highlig

I’ve not had any success in using the compressed files like “restv2-diagnostics.log.9.gz”. The data is nothing like the v1 logs. It looks as though every line that is in the normal file has a folder named after it and another subfolder resulting in thousands of folders and subfolders with an empty file. It’s not usable. Has anyone figured this out?

What are the various methods for tracking overlapping IP space today? If you know some medieval ways, let us know.credit for this discussion topic to ​@mark.mikhail!  

Has anyone gotten BSUS working on PodMan. We are not wanting to install Docker CE becuase our server team does not support Redhat Unix and Docker any more. We have moved everything to Oracle Linix and PodMan. So far the repomse from Bluecat is that they do not know if BSUS would work on PodMan and that it wouldn;t be supported. They have not tested the application that configuration.

I’m trying to find a way to retrieve the Associated Deployment Role Objects for servers, including the object info that I’m able to see in the GUI (zones, etc). I’m able to use this below to get the roles, but that embedded data doesn’t include the zone/network, and using the returned ID to get the object doesn’t contain that data either. Is there another way? {{bam_url}}/api/v2/servers/:id?fields=embed(deploymentRoles)

Join me for an overview of the new Network VIP community. You’ll get a walkthrough of the new community. In this video we’ll cover who Network VIP is for, new areas of the community, an overview of types of posts, and how to post.  FOTM topic suggestions: If you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see covered in Feature of the Month, reply to this article! We are always looking for new topics. 

I recently spent a couple of weeks in Japan and figured I’s share a couple of photos with you all. I’ve missed Network VIP and am super excited to be back in the community. Spent some time in Tokyo, Osaka, the alps, and Kyoto!  

Hello,I’m working on converting all our scripts from V1 to V2 of the API on version 9.6.1, but I’m struggling to find the right call to replace “GetLinkedEntities”.  For reference, we’re needing to do a search by MacAddress and return all the IP Addresses associated with that mac address, or even a single IP associated with that address.   The V1 to V2 guide lists several API Areas where this should be possible:GET /api/v2/tags/{collectionId}/taggedResources GET /api/v2/userGroups/{collectionId}/users GET /api/v2/addreses/{collectionId}/resourceRecords GET /api/v2/resourceRecords/{collectionId}/dependentRecords GET /api/v2/macPools/{collectionId}/macAddresses GET /api/v2/serverGroups/{collectionId}/servers GET /api/v2/locations/{collectionId}/annotatedResourcesHowever, I have had zero luck getting any of these to work at all.  I can do a straight mac address search and return the MacID without any issues, but getting all the linked entities to this mac address within the system has bee

In Slack, it was occasionally helpful to privately message someone.   Does that functionality exist in this forum?

I recently wen’t on a trip to CMX summit in SF. It’s a yearly conference focused on building communities. It’s always full of awesome ideas and learnings that I try and take back and apply to this community for you all. Before the conference, I had ½ a day in San Francisco and took my new camera to play around with it. I thought I’d post some of the photos in this community fun thread and kick it off. While the community is definitely here for you all to learn we can also have fun too 😉. I encourage you to post in this channel if you have anything fun to share!  

As some of you may have heard from your Customer Care representative, Customer Care is rolling out a new SFTP server.This new system will replace bluecatsftp.bluecatnetworks.com. The hostname has changed, it is now transfer.bluecatnetworks.com. Eventually, the old host record will point to this new server, but during this time of transition, they will be separate.SFTP services on transfer.bluecatnetworks.com are currently available to you. You should start using this server as soon as you need to send data to Customer Care or Professional Services. We understand your change-management cycles to allow traffic to this system may not be swift, so we will have both running in parallel for a few weeks. We plan to shutting down the SFTP service on the old system on 12 May 2025. If your change-management process does not allow for that quick of a turn-around, we can work with you.This system remains SFTP-only. You will continue to use your current SFTP client. There is a new option available