Lucent QIP and Active Directory

[adfreek]

I just arrived at a client 3 weeks ago to assist in an NT 4.0 to WS03 migration. This company manages their IP space with the Lucent QIP product. This includes DNS and DHCP. They are presently running version 5.2 (build 20). We are getting ready to sit down with the networking group as well as a rep from Lucent to discuss possible integration with AD. As we all know AD drives on DNS and unfortunately, too much money has been invested in this product (QIP) for them to simply throw it in a closet. I was thinking of setting up a WS03 DNS server for the AD environment and just delegate that ?

Does anyone have any recommendations? Or questions you think I should bring up to the Lucent rep? How critical is losing that new DNS enhancements (i.e. stub zones) in WS03?

Any thoughts? Has anyone been in this situation before (running QIP while having to roll out AD) ?

Thanks

 

[jyorgey]

QIP and AD will work together nicely, but it requires being setup correctly. QIP can be complex in the intital setup but once set gives you a view of you IP infrastructure that you can't get from Window.

You may want to contact Vaticor Inc. They are doing upgrades of QIP and integrations of QIP and AD for large and small compines. Vaticor is made up with former Quadritek/Lucent people.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Does this help?

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cach...6bb7_Case_study.pdf+QIP+and+AD&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
glen@johnsoncomputers.us


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