[Kea-users] Sockets not creating when starting kea-ctrl-agent

[Jonathan Elliott]

From Peter Davies (peterd at isc.org <mailto:peterd at isc.org>):

> Hi Johathan,
> ?? The kea-ctrl-agent listens for commands on http://192.168.20.254:8000 <http://192.168.20.254:8000/> .
> 
> The kea-dhcp6 and kea-dhcp4 processes create and listen on the Unix sockets.
> Have you configured kea-dhcp6 and kea-dhcp4 to listen on these sockets, 
> and are
> these processes running?

Hi Peter (and list),

It looks like my mistake was the assumption that the control agent was responsible for creating the sockets.  Digging a little deeper into the documentation, I was able to find where socket creation was managed within the dhcp4 and dhcp6 server configurations.  With the following stanzas inserted into dhcp configuration files, everything works as advertised:

(from /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf)

              "peers": [
                {
                  "name": “host2",
                  "url": "http://192.168.20.253:8000/",
                  "role": "standby",
                  "basic-auth-user": "kea-api",
                  "basic-auth-password-file": "/etc/kea/kea-api-password",
                  "auto-failover": true
                },
                {
                  "name": “host1",
                  "url": "http://192.168.20.254:8000/",
                  "role": "primary",
                  "basic-auth-user": "kea-api",
                  "basic-auth-password-file": "/etc/kea/kea-api-password",
                  "auto-failover": true
                }
              ]

Many thanks for your help and I hope that the above snippet might be found by other Kea neophytes and save them from making the same mistake that I did.

Thanks,
Jonathan.
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