A good reason to have a reporting server is DHCP lease history. This enables you to show the different MAC addresses that have all been issued a given IP address.

Remember that syslog forwarding of query/response logs can have a major impact on performance.

• 1,000 DNS QPS amounts to 25GB of data per day.
• An average DNS query byte size of 290 bytes (ish)

If MGMT port is enabled on a node, then the node will use that port to communicate with the reporting server (if there is one)

If you are running two reporting servers on hardware (or VM's that can't be moved) configured in a single-site cluster and you need to replace hardware, it is possible to upgrade while retaining historical data.

You can backup just reporting and re-import.

1. If you need a full backup, then Infoblox support has a hot fix to force the full backup.
2. It takes a fair amount of time to do this. If it takes 4 hours to backup the import will take at least the same.

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