BlueCat Micetro

Micetro is BlueCat's DDI management product, providing unified control of DNS, DHCP and IP address management across servers an organisation already runs. Rather than replacing existing infrastructure, it sits above it and manages what is there.

That overlay approach is the whole distinction and it answers the practical objection to DDI projects. A large organisation typically runs Microsoft DNS in one place, BIND in another and cloud provider DNS in a third, each with its own history and its own owner. Replacing them is a disruptive programme touching the most fragile part of the network, whereas managing them where they are delivers unified visibility and control without the migration.

Unified visibility is usually the first thing gained and often the most valuable. Simply knowing every DNS zone and every allocated address across a fragmented estate is something many organisations cannot currently produce, and it is a prerequisite for automating anything.

Automation follows from that, letting address allocation and DNS record creation happen through an API as part of provisioning rather than as a ticket someone works manually. In an environment where infrastructure is created and destroyed continuously, manual address management stops being viable.