Men and Mice

Secure and easy task delegation

Standard DNS and DHCP servers don't provide any means of controlling user access at the lower levels. For a particular DNS or DHCP server, a given user can either change all data on the server or none. In large organizations with distributed operations this results in a management dilemma. While it is too risky to grant too many users the privileges to make DNS and DHCP changes, the common practice of assigning all DNS and DHCP management to one central team of administrators leads to inefficient use of costly resource and long lead times.

This is how the Men & Mice Suite resolves this dilemma:

1. The Men & Mice Suite enables the senior network administrators to define arbitrary subdivision of authority over the network's DNS and DHCP services. For example, it is possible to grant one particular user, or a group of users, the privileges to only work with certain DNS zones and/or DHCP scopes regardless of on which servers they are hosted. Users can also be restricted on the IP-level and their access to the Men & Mice clients can be limited arbitrarily.
   
2. The Men & Mice Suite provides a simple "self-service" web based interface which confines the user's activities to his/her defined access rights. The web interface provides a "sandbox" environment, ensuring that user activities don't cause any disruptions for the general setup. Users are only allowed to work with their predefined IP-address space(s) and name space(s) and all input or delete actions are filtered through multitude of error and consistency checks to further eliminate the risk of problems

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