Micetro by Men&Mice 10.0

Welcome to Micetro by Men&Mice, a backend-agnostic DDI orchestration software for complex enterprise network environments.

Deployed in any on-premise, hybrid, or multicloud network environment, Micetro acts as a non-disruptive overlay that unifies server management under a single GUI and API. Micetro is a modular, software-defined DDI solution built around a number of components, and accessed through a unified user interface and API.

This documentation is divided into three parts:

1. Implementation Guide

2. User Manual

3. Micetro reference articles

Use the Implementation Guide to familiarize yourself with Micetro’s architecture and installation procedures for components on different platforms. The User Manual covers all of Micetro’s functionality. The Implementation Guide also details the update procedures.

Note

For how-to articles and troubleshooting, visit the Knowledge Base.

Note

If you’re using version 9.2 or older of the Men&Mice Suite, refer to the documentation on https://cdocs.menandmice.com/display/MM/Documentation+Home.

Table of Contents

Micetro by Men&Mice

• Release notes
• Security announcements
• Contacting Support
• Open-source licenses

Installing Micetro

• Implementation Guide
  • Architecture
    • Architecture overview
    • Men&Mice Central
    • Micetro’s DNS Server Controller
    • Micetro’s DHCP Server Controller
    • Men&Mice Virtual Appliances
    • Micetro User Interfaces
  • Installation
    • System requirements
    • Networking requirements
    • Micetro by Men&Mice components
    • Location of important config and log files
    • Men&Mice Central
    • Database backend
    • Management Console
    • Server controllers
    • Web Application
    • Installing Micetro in Azure
    • Micetro Plug-In for VMware
• Configuration
  • First login
    • License keys
  • First use wizard
  • Micetro User Management
    • Object-based access controls primer
    • Adding Users and Groups
    • Managing users, groups, and roles
  • Adding DNS servers
    • DNS servers in Active Directory integrated zones
  • Add DHCP Servers
  • IP Address Ranges and devices
• Advanced configuration
  • Advanced System Settings
  • Configure High Availability for Men&Mice Central
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Updating Central in High Availability setup
  • Always On Availability Groups
  • Setting up the PostgreSQL High Availability environment
    • Install pg_auto-failover
  • Men&Mice Central HA tweaks
    • Changing the default heartbeat timestamp value in Central HA
  • xDNS Zone Redundancy Groups
    • Overview
    • Manage xDNS Zone Redundancy Groups
    • Re-syncing zone redundancy groups when all members are out-of-sync
• Update Guide
  • Checking and Downloading an Update
  • Installing an Update
    • Updating an Appliance
  • Viewing Update Status

Using Micetro

• User Manual
• Management Console
  • Overview
  • Launching the Management Console
  • First Use Wizard
  • Console functions
    • Management Console Interface
    • Menu Bars
    • Toolbars
    • Quick Filter (Management Console)
    • Other actions in the Management Console
    • Health Monitoring Bar
• Web Application
  • Introduction
  • Using the Web Application
    • Logging in
    • Using the Men&Mice Web Application
    • Getting help or support
  • General
    • The front page
    • Working with the list view
    • Top menu
    • History
    • Save comments
    • Date and time handling
  • Filtering sidebar
    • Overview
    • Common filters
    • Filters for DNS zones
    • Filters for DNS records
    • Filters for Network list
    • Filters for Network contents
  • The Inspector
    • Overview
    • Actions
    • Properties
    • Context specific
  • DNS management
    • DNS Zones
    • DNS Records
  • Import DNS Records
    • Prerequisites
    • Import task
  • Network management
    • Networks
    • IP Addresses
  • Reports Management
    • Introduction
    • Reporting module
    • Main actions
    • Viewing the report definition list
    • Creating a new report
    • Viewing the report results
    • Actions for reports
    • Report sources
    • Filter field types
  • Configure Single Sign-On
    • Configuration
  • Quick command
    • Introduction
    • Using Quick Command
    • Examples
  • Quickfilter
    • Introduction
    • How to use the Quickfilter
    • Conditional Operators
    • Behavior in Networks
  • Workflow Management
    • Introduction
    • Getting started
    • Overview of DNS Requests in the system
    • Filtering sidebar
    • Actions
    • Inspector
    • Creating a DNS request
    • Submitting a change request
    • Approving or rejecting a change request
• DNS
  • Authoritative DNS Servers
    • Overview
    • New DNS Server
    • Edit DNS Server Name
    • Access
    • Define Work Set
    • Detach
    • Attach
    • Remove
    • Options (Management Console)
    • Properties
    • Server Info
    • Server Log
    • Reload/Reload Zone List (Management Console)
    • Edit DNS Policies
    • Clear Cache (Management Console)
    • View Cache Entries (Management Console)
    • Backup and Restore (BIND Only) (Management Console)
  • DNS zones
    • Overview
    • Zone Viewing
    • Zone Analysis (Management Console)
    • Access/Access for Non-Master for Zone(s)
    • Delete zone
    • Disable/Enable (Management Console)
    • Zone Migration Wizard
    • View Related Servers (Management Console)
    • Edit Preferred Servers (Management Console)
    • Export (Management Console)
    • Folders
    • Forward Zone
    • Import (Management Console)
    • Master Zone
    • DNS Response Policy Zones (BIND only) (Management Console)
    • DNSSEC Zones (Management Console)
    • Options (Management Console)
    • Options for a zone (Management Console)
    • Promote Slave to Master
    • Zone Controls (BIND only) (Management Console)
    • Reload (Management Console)
    • Set Folder
    • Search
    • Slave Zone
    • Stub Zone
    • View History
  • DNS resource records
    • Overview
    • Types of Resource Records
    • Resource Records
    • New Records
    • Deleting Records
    • Clearing Records (Management Console)
    • Disable/Enable Records
    • Cut, Copy, and Paste (Management Console)
    • Undo/Redo Commands (Management Console)
  • DNS policies (Windows)
    • DNS Policies and DNS Scopes
    • Edit DNS Policies
    • Define Client Subnets
    • Add DNS Zone scopes
    • Edit DNS Server Scopes
    • Set Response Rate Limiting
    • DNS Policies
    • Apply DNS Policy from
• DHCP
  • DHCP servers
    • Microsoft DHCP
    • Reconcile Scopes
    • ISC Kea DHCP
    • ISC DHCP
    • Restart
    • Cisco DHCP
    • Overview
    • New DHCP Server
    • Edit DHCP Server Name
    • Inherited Access (Management Console)
    • Remove
    • Options
    • Properties (Management Console)
    • Advanced ISC Kea Server Properties
    • Reload Scope List (Management Console)
  • DHCP Scopes
    • Overview
    • Viewing Scopes
    • Scope Creation Wizard
    • Access
    • Scope Migration Wizard (Management Console)
    • Duplication Wizard (Management Console)
    • Folders
    • Reconcile Scope (Management Console)
    • Scope Policies (Windows Server 2012 or newer) (Management Console)
    • Other Functions
    • Moving IP Address Information (Management Console)
    • Host Discovery
    • Failover Configurations and Split Scopes (Management Console)
• IP address management
  • Overview
  • Address (A) Records in DNS Zone Windows
    • Range Access (Management Console)
  • Containers
    • Creating a Container
  • Viewing IP Address Ranges
  • New Ranges
  • Range Configuration
    • Range Modifications
    • Range Deletions
  • IP Address List
  • IP Address Inspector
    • Adding a DNS Host
    • Editing a DNS Host
    • Removing a DNS Host
  • Moving IP Address Information (Management Console)
  • Split Range Wizard (Management Console)
  • Update Reverse Records Wizard (Management Console)
  • Allocate Ranges Wizard (Management Console)
  • Join Ranges (Management Console)
  • Select Parent (Management Console)
  • Host Discovery
    • Configuring Host Discovery Using Ping
    • Configuring Host Discovery by Querying Routers (Management Console)
  • Subnet Discovery (Management Console)
  • Add to/remove from Folder
  • Subnet Monitoring and Utilization History (Management Console)
    • Set Subnet Monitoring
    • Removing Subnet Monitoring
  • View Utilization History (Management Console)
    • Export Utilization History
  • Multiple Address Spaces
    • Address Space Management (Management Console)
    • Switching to a Different Address Space
    • Moving Objects to a Different Address Space (Management Console)
• Devices
  • Overview
  • What is a Device?
  • Adding a Device
  • Deleting a Device
  • Linking/Unlinking IP Addresses
    • Linking an IP Address
    • Unlinking an IP Address
  • Searching for Devices
  • Device List tab
• AD Sites and Subnets
  • Overview
  • Adding an AD Forest
  • Changing AD Forest Properties
  • Removing an AD Forest
  • Reloading the Sites in an AD Forest
  • Managing Subnets in a Site
• Cloud integration
  • Overview
    • Supported Cloud Services
    • DNS
    • IPAM
    • Configure Cloud Integration
    • Using Cloud Integration
  • Configure Cloud Integration
    • Set up and configuration
    • Adding a cloud service
    • Editing a cloud service instance
    • Removing a cloud service
    • Removing a cloud network
  • Using Cloud Integration
    • Viewing a cloud service instance
    • Using a cloud service
• Automation
  • REST API for Micetro
    • Introduction
    • Installation
    • REST API documentation
  • SOAP API for Micetro
    • Introduction
    • SOAP API documentation
  • Ansible
    • Installation
    • API user
    • Ansible configuration example
    • Credential matrix
    • Ansible modules
    • mm_freeip plugin
    • mm_inventory plugin
    • mm_ipinfo plugin
    • Example playbooks
  • Terraform
    • Installing the Micetro provider for Terraform
    • Using the Micetro provider with Terraform

Micetro Admin Guide

• Administration functions
  • System Settings
    • General
    • Logging
    • Error Checking
    • Save Comments
    • External Commands
    • DNS
    • IPAM
    • Monitoring
  • Access control
    • Built-in Roles
    • The Administrator User
    • Overriding Access Settings
    • New Objects
    • Edit Access Flag
    • Access Flags Defined
    • Access Control Dialog Box
    • Initial Access For
  • License Management
    • Adding a License Key
    • Removing a License Key
  • Update Guide
    • Checking and Downloading an Update
    • Installing an Update
    • Viewing Update Status
  • Define Custom Properties
    • Adding a Custom Property
    • Editing a Custom Property
    • Deleting a Custom Property
    • Displaying a Custom Property
    • Opening a Custom Property URL
  • Scheduled Scripts
  • Maintenance
    • Find Orphaned PTR Records
    • Find Concurrent Leases
    • Show Round Robin Records
    • Show Multiply Defined PTR Records
  • Appliance management
    • Overview
    • New Appliance
    • Appliance Properties
    • Enabling/Disabling DNS/DHCP Service (DNS/DHCP Appliance only)
    • Using as Web Server (DNS/DHCP Appliance only)
    • Enabling Remote Logging (DNS/DHCP Appliance only)
    • Using a Time Server
    • Enabling Remote Access
    • Configuring SNMP Monitoring
    • Configuring Anycast
    • Configuring Network Settings
    • Shutting down or Restarting the Men&Mice Appliance
    • Support Information
    • Edit Appliance Name
    • Delete Appliance
    • Backup and Restore
  • Caching DNS Servers
    • Overview
    • Options
    • Server Log and Query Logging
    • Stopping the DNS Server
    • Stub and Forward Zones
    • Managing Local Zones
• System Settings
  • General
  • Logging
  • Error Checking
  • Save Comments
  • External Commands
  • DNS
  • IPAM
  • Monitoring
• Access control
  • Built-in Roles
  • The Administrator User
  • Overriding Access Settings
  • New Objects
  • Edit Access Flag
  • Access Flags Defined
    • Global Access
    • DNS Zone
    • DHCP Scopes and IP Address Ranges
    • DNS Server
    • DHCP Server
    • DHCP Groups
    • Address Spaces
  • Access Control Dialog Box
    • Edit access controls
  • Initial Access For
• License Management
  • Adding a License Key
    • Adding license keys for the first time
  • Removing a License Key
• Update Guide
  • Checking and Downloading an Update
  • Installing an Update
    • Updating an Appliance
  • Viewing Update Status
• Define Custom Properties
  • Adding a Custom Property
  • Editing a Custom Property
  • Deleting a Custom Property
  • Displaying a Custom Property
  • Opening a Custom Property URL
• Scheduled Scripts
• Maintenance
  • Find Orphaned PTR Records
  • Find Concurrent Leases
  • Show Round Robin Records
  • Show Multiply Defined PTR Records
• Appliance management
  • Overview
  • New Appliance
  • Appliance Properties
  • Enabling/Disabling DNS/DHCP Service (DNS/DHCP Appliance only)
  • Using as Web Server (DNS/DHCP Appliance only)
  • Enabling Remote Logging (DNS/DHCP Appliance only)
  • Using a Time Server
  • Enabling Remote Access
  • Configuring SNMP Monitoring
  • Configuring Anycast
    • Configuring Anycast using BGP
    • Configuring Anycast using OSPF
  • Configuring Network Settings
    • Enabling/disabling the secondary network interface (eth1)
    • Enabling/disabling IPv6 addresses on the primary/secondary network interface
    • Configuring IPv4 addresses on the primary/secondary network interface
    • Configuring IPv6 addresses on the primary/secondary network interface
    • Configuring the Network Mode on the primary/secondary network interface
    • Configuring IPv4 routing information
    • Configuring IPv6 routing information
  • Shutting down or Restarting the Men&Mice Appliance
  • Support Information
  • Edit Appliance Name
  • Delete Appliance
  • Backup and Restore
• Caching DNS Servers
  • Overview
  • Options
    • Setting Network and Transfer Protocols
    • Setting Access Control for the Caching DNS Server
    • Setting Private Addresses and Private Domains
    • Specifying Addresses not to Query
    • Configuring DNSSEC Settings
    • Configuring Advanced Settings
  • Server Log and Query Logging
  • Stopping the DNS Server
  • Stub and Forward Zones
  • Managing Local Zones
    • Adding a Local Zone
    • Editing/Deleting a Local Zone
    • Adding a Record
    • Editing/Deleting a Record

Reference

• Micetro reference articles