Itential + Infoblox

Accurate DDI, Automated Across Every Change

Every Infrastructure Change, Complete From the Start

IP allocation, DNS records, DHCP updates – DDI is part of every network change. With Infoblox connected to the Itential Platform, those steps happen automatically inside governed workflows, whether triggered by a human, a pipeline, or a FlowAgent. No manual lookups. No copy-paste. Every change complete, accurate, and auditable from the first step to the last.

Current Challenges

DDI Is in Every Change, It’s Still Mostly Manual

IP allocation, DNS updates, and DHCP changes are prerequisites for nearly every infrastructure operation: device provisioning, application deployment, network changes. But most teams still handle DDI manually, querying Infoblox, copying the data, pasting it somewhere else, and hoping nothing gets mistyped along the way. That manual chain slows every change down and introduces errors that are hard to trace and painful to fix.

DDI Is a Prerequisite, Not an Afterthought

Every device provisioning, application deployment, and network change depends on accurate IP, DNS, and DHCP data. Manual lookups make every change slower and riskier.

Copy-Paste Errors Have Consequences

Mistyped IP addresses, mangled DNS records, and mistaken CLI commands cause outages that take hours to diagnose. Automation removes the risk at the source.

Infoblox Data Doesn’t Flow Automatically

Without integration, engineers manually query Infoblox, reformat the data, and feed it into other systems. That process doesn’t scale and doesn’t belong in a governed change workflow.

How It Works

How Itential & Infoblox Work Together

The Itential Platform connects to Infoblox via REST API and the Itential MCP Server, making DDI data queryable by any workflow, FlowAgent, or pipeline, and writing back automatically after every governed change.

Query Infoblox Before Every Change

Before any workflow or FlowAgent executes a network change, it queries Infoblox for current IP state, available subnets, and DNS records. Accurate data in, accurate changes out, no manual lookups required.

Allocate & Update DDI Automatically

IP reservations, DNS A record creation, and DHCP updates execute as governed workflow steps, triggered by a human, a ServiceNow ticket, a CI/CD pipeline, or a FlowAgent. Every allocation attributed to the workflow that made it.

Write Back After Every Execution

After a network change executes, Itential writes the updated state back to Infoblox automatically. IP assignments recorded. DNS entries confirmed. Infoblox stays current without manual updates or reconciliation jobs.

Generate DDI Workflows From Plain Language

Describe the DDI operation you need and Spec-Driven Development generates the workflow via the platform’s REST APIs, commits to Git, and deploys automatically. No starting from scratch, no professional services required.

Joint Benefits

Accurate DDI in Every Workflow, Pipeline & Agent Action

MCP & API Connectivity

Infoblox connects to the Itential Platform via REST API or the Itential MCP Server, making DDI data queryable by any workflow, FlowAgent, or connected LLM.

Governed DDI Execution

Every IP allocation, DNS update, and DHCP change runs through Itential’s policy engine with RBAC enforced, pre/post validation run, and a full audit trail generated automatically.

AI-Driven DDI Operations

FlowAgents query Infoblox for current IP state before acting, execute DDI changes as governed workflow steps, and write results back without manual intervention at any stage.

Self-Service DDI for Every Team

Publish IP allocation and DNS workflows as governed catalog items any team can trigger, app teams, DevOps, NOC, without opening a ticket to network engineering.

About Itential

Agentic Operations for Infrastructure, Governed at Every Step

Itential is the agentic infrastructure operations platform, connecting AI reasoning to deterministic execution across network, cloud, and IT systems. For teams running Infoblox DDI, Itential connects via REST API and the Itential MCP Server — querying IP, DNS, and DHCP state before every change, executing governed allocations and updates, and writing results back automatically through a single policy-governed engine. Every action validated. Every change attributed. Human approval enforced wherever you define it.

Pre-Change DDI Queries
Workflows and FlowAgents query Infoblox for current IP state, available subnets, and DNS records before executing any change, so every operation runs against accurate, live DDI data.

Governed DDI Execution & Write-Back
IP allocations, DNS record updates, and DHCP changes execute as governed workflow steps, with results written back to Infoblox automatically – no separate sync jobs, no manual reconciliation.

Multi-Domain, Multi-Tool Orchestration
Coordinate Infoblox alongside Cisco, Juniper, Arista, AWS, Azure, and ServiceNow, natively running Ansible, Python, Terraform, and OpenTofu without rework.

About Infoblox

The DDI Foundation for Enterprise & Service Provider Networks

Infoblox is the industry standard for DDI — DNS, DHCP, and IP address management — running the foundational network services that nearly every infrastructure change depends on. Infoblox provides centralized IPAM, authoritative DNS, and DHCP services across enterprise, data center, and service provider environments, with network views, policies, and configurations that scale to the largest deployments. The Infoblox REST API exposes every DDI operation programmatically, making it available to Itential as a governed step inside any workflow.

Authoritative DDI for Every Network Change
DNS, DHCP, and IPAM data from Infoblox drives device provisioning, application deployment, and network change operations across the entire infrastructure estate.

Centralized Network Views & Policies
Infoblox network views and DDI policies give enterprise teams a single, authoritative model for IP space and naming across complex multi-site, multi-region environments.

Open API Architecture
Infoblox’s REST API exposes every DDI operation – IP queries, allocations, DNS records, DHCP scopes — programmatically, making it available to Itential workflows and FlowAgents as a governed integration surface.

Go Deeper on Itential & Infoblox

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Itential connects to Infoblox via its open-source REST API adapter and the Itential MCP Server. The adapter exposes Infoblox DDI capabilities, IP queries, address allocation, DNS record management, DHCP updates, as governed workflow steps any workflow or FlowAgent can call. The Itential MCP Server exposes those same capabilities as queryable tools for any connected LLM. Every call is schema-validated, RBAC-enforced, and logged.

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Yes. FlowAgents query Infoblox via the Itential MCP Server before reasoning through any infrastructure action, getting current IP availability, subnet assignments, and DNS records as structured context. After execution, Itential writes back to Infoblox automatically as part of the governed workflow. The agent never accesses Infoblox directly. Every read and write goes through the platform’s policy engine.

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IP address queries and next-available-IP allocation, subnet and network prefix assignments, DNS A record creation and deletion, DNS record searches and validation, DHCP scope updates, and IP record retirement on device decommission. Pre-built modular workflows cover the most common operations. Spec-Driven Development generates net-new DDI workflows from plain language in minutes.

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Every DDI change executed through Itential, whether triggered by a human, a CI/CD pipeline, or a FlowAgent, writes back to Infoblox automatically as part of the same governed workflow. There is no separate sync step, no reconciliation job, and no manual update required. Infoblox reflects what actually executed, not what was intended.

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Yes. Itential workflows that include Infoblox DDI operations integrate natively with ServiceNow. Tickets are created at the start, updated at each step, and closed with full execution evidence when the workflow completes. IP allocations, DNS records, and DHCP changes are all attributed in the ticket. The DDI layer becomes part of the end-to-end ITSM workflow, not a separate manual step.

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No. The Itential + Infoblox integration is additive. Existing Infoblox configurations, network views, and DDI policies remain unchanged. Itential calls Infoblox via REST API, reads current state, makes the governed change, and writes back, working within your existing Infoblox structure, not replacing it.

Automate DDI Into Every Infrastructure Change

See how the Itential Platform connects to Infoblox so every IP allocation, DNS update, and DHCP change happens automatically, accurately, and with a full audit trail.

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