Once the cluster is created, you'll be immediately directed to the Servers page to add your DNS and DHCP servers. If not, you can add servers by selecting the Settings menu from the menu bar along the left side of the screen. From the submenus that appear in parallel, choose Servers.
Enter the server details like
SERVER NAME: A required field where you assign a unique name to the server being configured or added for identification.
DISCOVER EXISTING CONFIGURATIONS?: You have two choices to make here; opt for Step 7 or Step 8 depending on your requirement.
Step 7 -> Advanced DNS-DHCP-IP address discovery
Specify any one of the options :DNS, DHCP, or Both to discover all the existing configurations from the server, or
Step 8 -> Adding and configuring servers using DDI Central
Specify No if you just want to add and setup a new server from the scratch. You can setup the required DNS, DHCP or combined configurations to your server to get it configured through the user-friendly DDI Central user interface later.
To discover all the advanced configurations of DNS-DHCP services, the whole IP address plan and the current IP address inventory
Choose any one of the three options: DNS, DHCP, Both, for the Discover Existing Configurations?.
Provide the essential Config Path and the Zone File path for the DNS servers, while providing the Lease Path and the DHCP server path for the DHCP servers.
You can add new servers to DDI console and enable ManageEngine DDI Central to implement, configure, and manage DNS, DHCP and IPAM services on your network infrastructure from scratch.
As DDI Central has DNS and DHCP bundled with the product and it gets deployed on your servers while installing the product.
For this, you'll have to choose No for Discover Existing Configurations? option.
APP CONSOLE: Enter the static IP address of the central server that hosts the DDI application console associated with this server.
Click Save to add the server into the ME DDI console.
If you have chosen the discovery option as outlined in Step 7, ManageEngine DDI Central will begin to discover configurations from the designated paths for each service.
Once you add your server into the DDI Central console you can further proceed modifying the discovered DNS-DHCP-IPAM configurations or quickly start setting up the DNS-DHCP-IPAM configurations for the new server through the user-friendly DDI Central user interface.
Other than the general actions, you can also perform the following actions: Flush DNS Cache: Hit the button "Flush DNS Cache" to refresh the DNS cache of the selected server to ensure that the DNS information hosted on the server is up-to-date.
A dialog box appears prompting you to specify the scope of the cache flush. If you want to flush the cache of all the zones on the server, click Flush All or if you just want to flush the cache of a specific zone on the server, click Flush Specific.
DDI Central now enables users to update their server status, including the status of the service, by clicking on Check status button after selecting the specific server you want to update. This reloads the current status of both the server and service hosted in it. You can single and multi select servers for updating the server status.