[kea-dev] Check kea configuration
Chaigneau, Nicolas
nicolas.chaigneau at capgemini.com
Thu Mar 19 08:43:22 UTC 2015
Hello,
Is it possible to check that Kea's configuration is valid, without actually trying to start the server ?
(if not, would it be possible to add this, perhaps with a new command line parameter to kea-dhcp4 for instance ?)
I think of this because, from my experience, it is very easy to botch the configuration. (For instance, a comma not removed at the end of a list. I'm doing this quite often.)
That's not really an issue in development: you notice it fails to start, the message displayed allows to precisely locate the issue. You just fix the configuration, and start again.
But in production, Kea will be run on several nodes of a cluster. The server will be restarted through the cluster.
If the configuration is incorrect, the cluster will not be happy, and it will be more difficult to figure out what went wrong and restore a nominal cluster situation.
So it would be really useful to be able to check a configuration, before actually try to start or reconfigure the server with this configuration.
What do you think ?
Regards,
Nicolas.
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