Men & Mice Suite

Commercial; see site.

Current Version: 6.1.3 (March 8, 2010)

Men & Mice produces DNS and IP management software that enables users, through a graphical interface, to simultaneously manage standard DNS and DHCP servers on different platforms, as well as keep track of IP addresses. The Men & Mice Suite comes in both an enterprise version and a small business version (the latter which was formerly called "QuickDNS"). The Suite is comprised of three components: a client, called "Men & Mice Management Console"; a data storage and web server, called "Men & Mice Central"; and DNS gateway software, called "Men & Mice Server Controller".

One component of the suite - the DNS Expert (a DNS analysis and monitoring product) - may be purchased separately and deployed independently from the rest of the suite.

While no information is available regarding what's new in version 6.1.3, version 6.1.2 added/changed the following:

• Display "(disconnected)" behind server name for disconnected DNS/DHCP servers in Manager window. Allows users to use the quickfilter to quickly find all dead servers.
• Added editServerName and editDHCPServerName commands to CLI
• Calling modifyDHCPServer re-resolves IP address and stores in the database
• Fixed crash in DHCP window when split scopes had a "Ping" column
• "Query Men & Mice Suite log" now displays last 1000 entries by default and doesn't auto-update. A "Limit" combo box has been added.
• Log windows don't refresh themselves when a thread is running. Prevents crashes when a huge number of messages are being added to a window.
• If incremental zone sync is aborted due to SOA record mismatch, that zone will be synced next time with a full zone transfer.
• Added "name" element to XML block sent to external scripts on CF update
• replaceZone command can now save DNSSEC records
• Fixed syntax checking for NSEC and RRSIG records
• AD Sync interval can now be defined in preferences.cfg
• Fixed memory leak in AD calls
• Fixed a possible race condition when logging
• the DNS Server Controller can now create AD zones in a domain
• Trying to create an object with incorrect custom fields through SOAP interface now correctly bails out before creating the object
• Definition of SQL Query SOAP command in WSDL is now correct
• Creation of DHCP Server references in SOAP interface was incorrect
• fixed property definitions for properties of type flag in SOAP interface
• Use POST instead of GET when loading columns in web UI. Prevents buffer overflow which caused device list to appear empty in IE 7 if there were many custom fields
• performance optimization in the Utilization report
• Access manager optimization. Login time should be 90% faster for users with a huge number of zones/ranges/scopes
• In "Select XX Instance to open" dialog, OK button is now the default key target
• Hitting "Delete" in device dialog in web now deletes reservation too
• In function canCreateRange, check whether user has access to create subranges under the range, containing the from- and to-addresses, when not exact match.
• In the Web-UI, do a login on enter in password text box.
• Multi-line fields in wizard summary pages now have scroll bars and are scrolled to top by default
• Fixed handling of RP records
• Fixed a bug with Single Signon to the Web-UI
• Changed reverse record generator to select the correct reverse zone instance when forward and reverse zones are hosted on different servers
• Fixed Radius authentication on Solaris
• Fixed bogus timeouts in windows networking code.
• Tuned size of pipe used to talk to netsh. Should dramatically speed up DHCP module for Windows DHCP Servers.
• Mandatory/Read only/Multiline checkboxes are now disabled when defining a boolean custom field
• When central is started with -z param, perform "analyze" on database at startup