Setup

Add Men and Mice Endpoint

  1. Login to vRA tenant
  2. Click on the Catalog tab
  3. Request the Add Men and Mice Endpoint vRA Catalog Item
  4. Fill out the form accordingly (see below) and Submit
Add Men and Mice Endpoint
Add Men and Mice Endpoint

FieldValue
Configuration label

No spaces, periods or special characters except underscore (_) and dash (-)

Unique label

DO NOT prepend with your tenant name and an underscore, e.g. mytenant_

Version

Men & Mice version

Hostname

Men & Mice FQDN

HTTPS?

Select whether or not the Men & Mice is HTTPS

Port

Men & Mice port number

Credential Configuration for Men and Mice Endpoint
Create credential?

Check the checkbox to create a new credential.

Uncheck the checkbox to use an existing credential.

Credential

Shown when 'Create credential?' is not checked

Select the appropriate credential from an existing list of credentials

Credential Configuration label

Shown when 'Create credential?' is checked

No spaces, periods or special characters except underscore (_) and dash (-)

Unique label

DO NOT prepend with your tenant name and an underscore, e.g. mytenant_

Username

Shown when 'Create credential?' is checked

Username that has necessary permissions

Password

Shown when 'Create credential?' is checked

User's password

IPAM Configuration
Device custom properties

Add in any custom device properties (e.g. comments) used for Men & Mice IPAM

This field is templatable. Click the link below to view documentation on the SovLabs Template Engine

SovLabs Template Engine page

Add DNS Configuration

  1. Login to vRA tenant
  2. Click on the Catalog tab
  3. Request the Add DNS Configuration vRA Catalog Item
  4. Fill out the form accordingly (see below) and Submit
Add DNS Configuration
Add DNS Configuration

FieldValue
Configuration label

No spaces, periods or special characters except underscore (_) and dash (-)

Unique label

DO NOT prepend with your tenant name and an underscore, e.g. mytenant_

Domains

Must be a qualified domain (e.g. example.com, example.org, example.co)

Add in all domains for this DNS configuration to support

Networks

Add in all the networks (X.X.X.X/CIDR) for this DNS configuration to support

DNS server type

Select Men and Mice as the desired DNS type

DNS Hosts

Select all desired Men and Mice DNS endpoints

Create A Records?

Select to create A records

Create PTR Records?

Select to create PTR records

Create Host Records?

Only shown when DNS server type is Infoblox

Select to create Host Records

NOTE: If you select Create Host Records?, leave Create A Records? and Create PTR Records? unchecked.

Use as default server?

Only recommended in very simple examples or test environments.

Select to have this DNS configuration be the default if domain or network is not matched in any other DNS configuration(s)