[Kea-users] checking for a valid kea json conf

[Darren Ankney]

Hi Gregor,

if you execute (for example):

kea-dhcp4 -T /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf

kea-dhcp4 will come pretty close to actually starting the server.  It
should catch most problems.  Do note that capital T in -T as the lower
-t does not perform as many checks. This, of course, doesn't mean that
it will find configuration errors that would not prevent Kea from
starting.

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM Gregor Kling <gregor.kling at its.thm.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 6/3/25 16:15, Francis Dupont wrote:
> > <server> -t <config_file> (it does not check everything but at least
> > syntax errors are detected and reported).
>
>
> Does syntax error here also mean it detects parameters that are used at
> places
>
> there are not supposed to?
>
> The warning  all-keys.json for example mentions mutually exclusive params:
>
> // WARNING: This example configuration is not meant for production use.
> // The Kea DHCPv4 server will refuse this configuration because it contains
> // mutually exclusive configuration parameters.
>
> > There is also an old ticket proposing to export the parsing part to
> > a library so such tools should become very easy to write.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>
> >
> > PS: the API provides a config-test too.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> gg
>
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