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Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits
Specifications
Ordering Information

Services and Support

Cisco Network Registrar

Product Overview

Cisco Network Registrar (CNR) is a full-featured DNS/DHCP system that provides scalable naming and addressing services for enterprise and service provider networks. Cisco Network Registrar dramatically improves the reliability of naming and addressing services for enterprise networks and will be integrated in to the CiscoAssure Policy Networking system to provide policies based on users. For cable ISPs, Cisco Network Registrar provides scalable DNS and DHCP services and forms the basis of a DOCSIS cable modem provisioning system.

Cisco Network Registrar includes a standards compliant DNS server that offers the most advanced feature set in the industry including support for incremental zone transfers, dynamic updates and notify. The Cisco Network Registrar DHCP server supports DHCP Safe Failover (redundant DHCP servers), dynamic DNS updates, DOCSIS cable modems and integration with directory services using LDAPv3

Key Features and Benefits

Cisco Network Registrar includes a wide range of unique and standard features that provide customers with numerous benefits over competing products and public domain software. The most critical benefits are stabilizing the IP infrastructure, automating network services, and preparing for policy networking. Below is a list of the key features built into Cisco Network Registrar:

• Scalable, multithreaded DNS server with support for dynamic DNS, incremental zone transfers, and notify

• Full-featured DHCP server with support for BOOTP, dynamic BOOTP, multihoming, client-class, and secondary address on routers

• Redundant DHCP services using the DHCP Safe Failover Protocol, which eliminates DHCP as a single point of failure while avoiding the problem of duplicate address assignment found in earlier failover protocols

• Support for Windows 2000. Cisco Network Registrar has been fully qualified to run on a Windows 2000 platform and includes all of the features necessary to support Windows 2000 clients and servers

• Directory services integration using LDAP V.3

• Support for DOCSIS cable modems

• Customized DHCP client configuration based on media access code (MAC) address, device type, or other criteria, "Customization" includes address assignment from different pools of addresses, customization of all DHCP options sent to the client, and customization of the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) used to update DNS

• Extension points — a special form of application programming interface (API) that provides callouts to user-written logic for even greater customization of DHCP processing of individual client requests.

• Flexible command-line interface (CLI) for automation of routine configuration and management tasks and for even greater customization of DHCP processing

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps

• Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) database exports

• Support for Windows 2000, Windows NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and AIX (HP/UX and AIX use the graphical user interface [GUI] running on Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98; the graphical user interface (GUI) does not run directly on HP/UX or AIX)

Specifications

The Cisco Network Registrar supports the following platforms:

Ordering Information

Services and Support

Related services are also offered with Cisco Network Registrar. To find out more about Cisco Network Registrar, please visit

http://www.cisco.com/go/cnr

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:13:41 PDT 2000
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