SSSYGZ - Documentation Index

Table of Contents

• Welcome
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • About IBM NS1 Connect®
  • Managing your plan
  • Getting started
    • Getting started with IBM NS1 Connect®
    • Dedicated DNS
    • Managed DNS for China
    • Pulsar RUM-based traffic steering
    • Configuring NS1 Connect as a primary DNS provider
    • Configuring NS1 Connect as a secondary DNS provider
  • Using the API
  • API rate limiting
  • Preferences
    • Enabling dark mode
  • Support for Squarespace customers
  • Glossary
• Account management
  • Users
    • Adding a user to the account
    • Editing user details
    • Editing your user profile
    • Changing your password
    • Deleting a user
  • Teams
    • Creating a team
    • Editing team details
    • Deleting a team
  • API keys
    • Creating API keys
    • Editing API keys
    • Managing API key secrets
    • Deleting API keys
  • Account permissions
  • Security
    • Managing two-factor authentication
      • Enforcing two-factor authentication for all users
      • Enabling two-factor authentication (2FA)
      • Resetting two-factor authentication for a user
    • Managing IP allow lists
  • Usage
    • Account usage and limits
    • Viewing usage and limits for your account
    • Exporting usage data
    • Viewing your account information
    • Closing a free edition account
  • Single sign-on (SSO)
    • Locating your SSO ID
    • Configuring SSO with Azure
    • Configuring SSO with Duo
    • Configuring SSO with Okta
    • Configuring SSO with OneLogin
    • Single sign-on (SSO) troubleshooting
• DNS management
  • Zones
    • Primary and secondary zones
    • Creating a primary zone
    • Creating a secondary zone
    • Creating a linked zone
    • Importing a zone file
    • Viewing zone details
    • Editing zone settings
    • Exporting zone data
    • Deleting a zone
    • FAQ: Secondary zones
    • SOA and TTL settings
    • Subdelegations and child zones
    • Converting a secondary to a primary zone
    • Zone versioning
    • Configuring outgoing zone transfers (XFR)
    • Configuring reverse lookup zones
  • Networks
    • Publishing a zone to a network
    • Validating the connection to an external network
  • Records and answers
    • Types of DNS records
    • Comparing CNAME, ALIAS, and linked records
    • Add a DNS record to a zone
    • Cloning a DNS record
    • Answers and answer groups
      • Cloning an answer
      • Cloning an answer group
    • Converting between CNAME, A/AAAA, and ALIAS record types
    • Testing your records
    • Wildcard records
    • Resource watchlist
      • Adding a record to the resource watchlist
      • Viewing records on the resource watchlist
      • Removing a record from the resource watchlist
      • Adding a note to a record in the resource watchlist
  • Nameservers
    • Nameserver assignments
    • Locating assigned nameservers
    • Delegating a domain to NS1 Connect
    • Preventing lame delegation hijacking
  • DNSSEC
    • Enabling DNSSEC for a primary zone
    • Enabling DNSSEC on a subdelegation
    • Multi-signer DNSSEC
      • Setting up multi-signer DNSSEC in NS1 Connect (API only)
    • FAQ: DNSSEC
• Cloud Sync
  • Synchronizing DNS data with Cloud Sync
    • Configuring DNS data flow from Amazon Route 53 to NS1 Connect
      • Deploying the Amazon Web Services CloudFormation stack
      • Tagging DNS zones in Amazon Route 53
    • Configuring DNS data flow from NS1 Connect to Route 53
  • Back up and restore DNS data
    • Connecting a backup network
    • Restoring zone data
    • Viewing backup activity of a zone
  • Security in Cloud Sync
• URL redirects
  • HTTP versus HTTPS
  • Path and query forwarding
  • SSL/TLS certificates
  • Configuring a URL redirect
  • Importing a URL redirect file
  • Downloading URL redirects
  • Generating redirect data sets
• Filter Chain
  • Introduction to the Filter Chain
  • Creating a Filter Chain
  • EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) extension
  • Using external routing tools
  • Testing Filter Chain processing by using the dig command
  • Filters
    • Overview of traffic steering filters
    • Geographic filters
    • Netfence filters
    • Health check filters
    • Shuffle filters
    • Select First filters
    • Cost and priority filters
    • Pulsar RUM filters
    • IP from QName filter
  • Common configurations
    • Configuring automatic failover
    • Configuring automatic load shedding
• Pulsar traffic steering (RUM)
  • Pulsar RUM-based traffic steering
  • Pulsar configuration
    • Creating Pulsar RUM applications and jobs
    • Pulsar RUM filters
    • Connecting a Pulsar real user monitoring job to a DNS answer
    • Decisions over HTTP
  • Collecting private data
    • Configuring private RUM data collection
    • Configuring RUM data collection by using a JavaScript tag
    • Beaconing RUM data via gRPC or HTTP
    • Quality of experience integration (custom)
  • Pulsar RUM reporting
    • Pulsar RUM analysis
      • Viewing RUM analysis data
    • Pulsar RUM-based decisions
      • Viewing RUM-based decisions
      • Viewing errors that impacted a Pulsar decision
      • Viewing the answers and Pulsar RUM filters used by a record
      • Downloading Pulsar RUM-based decisions data
    • RUM performance and availability data
      • Viewing RUM performance and availability data
    • Using the Grafana plugin to visualize RUM data
  • Route maps
    • Overview of route maps
    • Creating and uploading a route map
    • Replacing a route map file
    • Deleting a route map
• Monitoring
  • Monitoring endpoints and services
  • Data sources and feeds
  • NS1 Connect monitoring jobs
    • Creating a monitoring job
    • Viewing a monitoring job
    • Cloning a monitoring job
    • Editing a monitoring job
    • Deleting a monitoring job
    • Pausing or resuming a monitoring job
    • Forcing a monitoring job status up or down
    • Enable or disable monitoring notifications
    • Configuring automatic updates and monitoring alerts
  • Connecting a job or feed to a DNS answer
  • Monitoring integrations
    • Creating a third-party data source
    • Configuring AppDynamics as a third-party data source
    • Configuring Amazon CloudWatch as a third-party data source
    • Configuring Catchpoint as a third-party data source
    • Configuring Datadog as a third-party data source
    • Configuring NS1 API as a data source
    • Configuring Pingdom as a third-party data source
    • Configuring ThousandEyes as a third-party data source
    • Creating a third-party data feed
• Observability and reports
  • Activity log
    • Viewing your account activity
    • Downloading the activity log
  • Summary reports
    • Exporting the number of queries for your networks
    • Viewing the number of queries in tabular format
  • Data sets
    • Overview of data sets
    • Types of data sets
    • Generate a data set
    • Download a data set
    • Delete a data set
    • Enabling partial query logs
    • About EBOT queries
  • DNS Insights
    • Introduction to DNS Insights
    • Using the DNS Insights dashboard
    • List of collected metrics
    • Using external integrations with DNS Insights
      • Creating a data sink
  • Integrating with Datadog (outbound)
• Alerts center
  • Types of alerts
  • Creating an alert
  • Editing an alert
  • Deleting an alert
  • Viewing alert details
  • Testing an alert
  • Notifier lists
    • Creating a notifier list
    • Editing a notifier list
    • Deleting a notifier list
    • Viewing details of a notifier list
  • Notifiers
    • Adding a notifier to a notifier list
    • Editing a notifier
    • Deleting a notifier
    • Configuring a Slack notifier
    • Configuring a PagerDuty notifier
    • Configuring a custom webhook notifier
  • Viewing alerts in the activity log
• SDKs, toolkits, and integrations
  • Software developer kits (SDKs)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) toolkits
    • OctoDNS toolkit for IBM NS1 Connect®
    • Terraform toolkit for IBM NS1 Connect®
    • Ansible toolkit for IBM NS1 Connect®
    • OpenStack Designate toolkit for IBM NS1 Connect®
  • Other integrations
    • Integrating with Cisco FirePower/ASA VPN
    • Integrating with Kubernetes ExternalDNS
    • Integrating with Kubernetes Certificate Manager
    • Integrating with Consul
    • Integrating with VMware NSX ALB (Avi Networks)
    • Integrating with HAProxy (enterprise)
    • Integrating with HAProxy (non-enterprise)
• Troubleshooting
  • Getting support
  • Monitoring
    • Resolving a downtime status of an endpoint
• Notices
• Release notes