Men & Mice Suite Version 6.3 now available
Men & Mice, a leading provider of DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (IPAM) solutions, has announced the release of Men & Mice Suite version 6.3.
This new release continues to show commitment in providing high quality enterprise IP address management solutions for organizations running Microsoft and Unix/Linux based networks, or a mixture thereof.
Version 6.3 of the Men & Mice Suite contains various new features and usability enhancements, making the system more powerful and easier to use.
Agent-free DNS management, improved UI and enterprise readiness.
The new release contains agent-free Microsoft DNS management, , support for distinction between dynamic and static DNS records on MS DNS servers and improved DNS scope migration tools and improved super scope management for MS DHCP management, to name a few exciting features. Through automatic updates it is possible to configure the system so that the server controllers and the Management Consoles are automatically updated when a new version of Men & Mice Central in installed.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Agent-free DNS management:
MS DNS servers can now be managed without having to install an agent on the server. This can greatly simplify installation and management of the system in environments with multiple MS DNS servers.
- Support for distinction between dynamic and static DNS records on MS DNS servers:
Dynamic DNS records on MS DNS servers are now shown with the record creation timestamp. It is possible to search or filter by the record timestamp making DNS record management a simple task.
- Improved super-scope management on Windows DHCP servers:
Super-scope management on MS DHCP servers has been improved significantly. Seeing all scopes within a certain super-scope is a simple task and users can query for scopes within a super-scope.
- Improved DHCP scope migration tools:
Scope migration can now be performed even if the server containing the original scope instance is not working. Various new options have been added to the scope migration wizard.
- Support for different access control settings within scopes:
Administrators can now control access to parts of scopes, for example if they want to allow certain users to only be able to manage reservations in a part of a scope.
- Improved support for very large environments with hundreds of DNS and DHCP servers:
Various optimizations have been performed to ensure high performance in very large environments.
- Support for DHCID record type:
Support has been added for the DHCID DNS resource record type.
- Expanded SOAP interface:
The SOAP interface contains a number of new commands and some commands have been enhanced.
- Improved support for Cisco DHCP servers:
Support for Cisco IOS 14 has been added and performance and stability has been improved.
- More functionality in web UI:
The functionality of the web interface has been improved significantly. Some of the improvements are listed below:
- It is now possible to add and remove zones
- Help has been added
- Improved filtering with predefined filters
- Search for MAC address has been added
- Search for IP address has been added
- It is now possible to Claim IP addresses through the web UI
- A details panel has been added for scopes
- The UI for the reports has been improved
- Improved Oracle database support:
Support and performance for the Oracle database has been improved.
- Reporting of external DNS changes:
Changes to static zones that are performed outside the system are now logged in the system log.
- Improved checks when creating new records:
The system can be configured to check for existence of records with the same name as records the user is trying to add and warn the user if he tries to create such records.
- Convert ranges to scopes:
IP Address Ranges (subnets) can be converted to DHCP scopes
- Improved search for DHCP scope options:
The Scope Options report can now search for an array of options. The search and update wizard can find, update and delete arrays of options.
Try the new version here!