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4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 Client's User Guide For more information about 4PSA DNS Manager, check: http://www.4psa.com Copyright © 2011 Rack-Soft. 4PSA is a registered trademark of Rack-Soft, Inc. Client's User Guide Manual Version 79252.10 at 2011/04/11 11:37:58 For suggestions regarding this manual contact: [email protected] All rights reserved. Distribution of this work or derivative of this work is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained from the copyright holder. DNS Manager is a registered trademark of 4PSA (Rack-Soft, Inc.). Plesk is a registered trademark of Parallels, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. RedHat is a registered trademark of Red Hat Software, Inc. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of FreeBSD, Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners. Table of Contents Preface ................................................................................................. 5 Who Should Read This Guide ....................................................................... 5 Chapter 1. About 4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 ............................................... 6 Where to Use 4PSA DNS Manager ................................................................ 6 4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 Features ............................................................... 7 Chapter 2. Navigation ............................................................................ 9 The Navigation Panel ................................................................................. 9 The Top Frame Controls ........................................................................... 10 The Main Frame Controls .......................................................................... 10 Using the Search Functions ....................................................................... 11 The Table Controls .................................................................................. 12 How to Remove Table Records ................................................................... 12 Chapter 3. Logging In ........................................................................... 14 Chapter 4. General Account Management ............................................... 15 Chapter 5. Manage the Application ........................................................ 17 Manage Interface Preferences .................................................................... 17 My Interface Settings ........................................................................... 18 Manage the Custom Buttons ...................................................................... 18 Add a New Custom Button .................................................................... 19 Chapter 6. Manage the System Features ................................................. 23 Manage the System Settings ..................................................................... 24 XML Export ........................................................................................... 26 XML Import ........................................................................................... 26 Chapter 7. Manage the System Templates ............................................... 28 Manage the DNS Templates ....................................................................... 28 Add a New Client DNS Template ............................................................. 29 Client's DNS Template Management ......................................................... 30 Chapter 8. Manage the DNS Zones ......................................................... 34 Client Management Page .......................................................................... 34 Searching the DNS Zones List ................................................................ 35 SPF Rules .......................................................................................... 36 Glue Records ...................................................................................... 37 Global Operations on DNS Zones ............................................................. 38 Edit Client Information ............................................................................. 40 Add a New DNS Zone .............................................................................. 40 Add a Single DNS Zone Name ................................................................ 41 Adding Multiple DNS Zones with Complete DNS Records ................................ 44 Edit a DNS Zone .................................................................................... 45 Add a New DNS Records ....................................................................... 49 Transfer IP Addresses ........................................................................... 60 DNS Zone Backup ............................................................................... 61 Manage the Round Robin Polls ................................................................ 62 Set the SOA Parameters ....................................................................... 64 Checking the Nameservers .................................................................... 65 Managing DNS Zones Remote Update Locations .............................................. 66 Add a New Remote Update Location ......................................................... 68 Remote Logs ...................................................................................... 70 Removal Confirmation .......................................................................... 70 DNS Zone Backup ................................................................................... 71 Chapter 9. Remote Update Location Configuration ................................... 72 1. 4PSA DNS Manager as a Secondary Server ................................................ 72 2. 4PSA DNS Manager as a Primary Server ................................................... 74 Chapter 10. Contact and Support ........................................................... 76 Appendix A. Supported Dump File Examples .......................................... 77 Index ................................................................................................... 87 Preface Who Should Read This Guide This User Guide must be read by the 4PSA DNS Manager clients. 4.0.0 Client's User Guide 5 Chapter 1 About 4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 is a server-level multitenant software automation solution that allows users with a minimum IT experience to manage DNS Zones. With 4PSA DNS Manager, you can create and administer DNS Zones and DNS Records, backup DNS Zones, manage DNS templates, gather DNS information from remote servers, etc. 4PSA DNS Manager can load DNS zone names from remote servers, regardless of the control panel or the operating system that runs on these servers. Thanks to its advanced features, 4PSA DNS Manager is the ideal tool for automatic DNS management. Where to Use 4PSA DNS Manager Unlike other DNS management applications, 4PSA DNS Manager offers superior automation features and a friendly client level interface. Clients who use hosting services will find 4PSA DNS Manager to be a very easy to use solution. Most DNS applications are frustrating; it is a known fact that even 4.0.0 Client's User Guide 6 some administrators do not fully understand all DNS functions. With 4PSA DNS Manager, these problems have become history. Here are several utilization scenarios: • Centralize DNS information from multiple servers. You will be able to offer two name servers no matter how many hosting servers you have and what platform or control panel they use. The centralization process is automatic and you do not have to add DNS Zone information to the 4PSA DNS Manager server. The interface scripts for most popular hosting panels like Plesk, Cpanel, Ensim, InterWorx Control Panel and Helm are included. • Offer DNS redundancy. 4PSA DNS Manager can act as a secondary DNS server, gathering zone names from all the participant servers and automatically updating DNS Zone information. • Offer DNS hosting. Hosting companies can use your services for DNS redundancy. Because no work is actually required to update the list of DNS Zones, DNS hosting becomes a very simple task. Clients will love the nice interface and the Zone validation. 4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 Features Some of the most important features offered by 4PSA DNS Manager 4.0.0 are: • Administrator and client management levels. • System designed for automatic DNS hosting. • Client permissions and limits. • Client actions auditing that logs information about DNS zone changes. • Command line creation utilities. • Supports both RFC1912 and timestamp SOA Serial number formats. • SystemAPI third party integration. • DNS Zone management: ◦ Advanced Reverse DNS Zones management. ◦ Create DNS Zones in interface (single Zones or from file). 4.0.0 Client's User Guide 7 ◦ Master/Slave Zones supported. ◦ A, AAAA, CNAME, NAPTR, NS, MX, PTR, SRV, TXT Records supported. ◦ Advanced Record management with owned and wide server level and client level DNS templates support. ◦ Update DNS Zone information from remote servers (can retrieve the list of DNS Zones added in any control panel interface). ◦ Per server or per client Start of Authority (SOA) Records: refresh time, retry time, expire time, minimum TTL, default TTL. ◦ Automatic query of reverse DNS. ◦ E 164 Zones support. ◦ IPV6 reverse Zones support. • Remote update locations management: ◦ Remote Zone types/Update interval. ◦ Remote update statistics