NicTool Objects

NicTool allows you to manage your DNS server by manipulating a few basic types of objects.

• Users. A User object represents a person who has access to the NicTool Server. Users belong to a certain Group and can only access objects inside that Group or its sub-groups.

• Groups. Groups define a tree-structured hierarchy of objects inside NicTool. There is a single root Group, and every Group may contain other NicTool object types, including other Groups. Users inside a sub-group do not have upward access to the tree of Groups.

• Zones. A Zone represents a Zone in the DNS system. A Zone object contains a number of Zone Record objects, and has a list of Nameservers to which the Zone will be published.

• Zone Records. A Zone Record is a Resource Record in the DNS system which belongs to a particular Zone.

• Nameservers. A Nameserver represents a single DNS server which is controlled by NicTool. Zones can publish to any Nameservers in the same Group or any Nameserver along the path from that Group to the root Group.