Part of point of having a IPAM system have a single point of administration for DNS. This is fine is you have an appliance. If you want have QIP managed DNS on a existing server your left with installing the LDDNS package. While I'm on the subject of LDDNS if LDDNS 5 for Linux is 64 bit only. If you have a 32 bit server you need to use LDDNS 4. The LDDNS package is just a bunch of files, no directory structure no start up scripts nothing but some executable files and libraries. That's a lot of work and you still have to figure out a way of keeping named.conf updated. It would be nice if you could set it up like an appliance and just have it work. Well you can and here is how
Download the following files for the Alcatel-Lucent support site.
jre-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.18-1.i386.lpf
vitalqip7.1-remote-7.1.173-1.i386.lpf
qddns-4.2.17-1.i386.lpf (or qddns-5.x.x-1.i386.lpf if you have a 64 bit platform)
The lpf packages are located under Electronic Delivery ->Vital QIP Appliance Manager->AM 1.6 -> AMM 1.6-> packages->QDDNS->qddns . Whew , that is quite a bit of navigation to get to the files. But ranting on the Vital QIP support site and the download mechanisms would take a whole post.
The .lpf files are zip archives containing a data.tar.gz file and a content sub-directory. The data.tar.tgz contain the application files. The content directory has some meta-data files and post-install scripts.
Now that we have the files we are ready to go.
1 Make /opt if you don't already have it
2 Create a qip user: useradd -d /opt/qip qip
Add . etc/qiprc to the /opt/qip/.bash_profile
3 Unpack the jre lpf using unzip in a temporary directory then extract with tar -C / -xzvf data.tar.gz
4 Unpack the vitalqip-remote lpf using unzip in a temporary directory using unzip then extract with tar -C / -xzvf data.tar.gz
5 While still in the vitalqip-remote package dir run the post install script sh content/postinst
6 Unpack the qddns lpf using unzip in a temporary directory then extract with tar -C / -xvzf data.tar.gz
5 While still in the qddns package dir run the post install script sh content/postinst
6 Just like with the appliances you need to set up your qip.pcy file specifing the FileGenerationServer at the very least.
7 At this point you should be able to start the services.
/etc/init.d/qip-msgd start
/etc/init.d/qip-ssltd start
/etc/init.d/qip-rmtd start
/etc/init.d/qip-named start
/etc/init.d/qip-netd start
8 Now go to your Vital QIP User Interface do a Update Configuration and Data and then an Update.
We are done and now have a DNS server running QIP DNS that can be provisioned by Vital QIP just like an appliance.
