[Kea-users] Updating kea.conf - does it need a daemon restart

Thomas Markwalder tmark at isc.org
Thu Sep 14 15:46:06 UTC 2017


On 9/14/17 11:36 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>
>> On Sep 14, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Thomas Markwalder <tmark at isc.org
>> <mailto:tmark at isc.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/14/17 10:10 AM, Neil Briscoe wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the main reasons I have gone down the KEA route over the older
>>> DHCPd is due to the fact that the documentation says I can
>>> add/change/remove scopes from the configuration file *_without having
>>> to restart the daemon_* – which is important as I have approx. 10,000
>>> subnet scopes…!
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> At the minute, during testing, I am restarting the daemon every time,
>>> which isn’t a problem.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Q – if I made changes to the kea.conf file (adding scopes), does the
>>> kea daemon feed these in and make the changes active automatically?
>>>
>>> Q – if it does it automatically, how often does it check/reload the
>>> configuration?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>> It does not detect the changes automatically.   You can instruct Kea to
>> reload it a couple of ways:
>>
>> 1. Send the process SIGHUP
>
> Is this synonymous with keactl reload?
>

It is.
>> 2. Sendi the config-reload command via control channel (See Kea Admin
>> guide: Chapter 16, Management API
>> http://kea.isc.org/docs/kea-guide.html#ctrl-channel)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thomas Markwalder
>> ISC Software Engineering
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> *Neil Briscoe*
>>>
>>>
>>>
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