[Kea-users] Kea with stork server help

[Darren Ankney]

Hi Lucas,

You might have better luck on the stork-users mailing list.  See here:
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users

It seems like there might be some confusion about how the Stork
deployment works.  There are two parts (stork-server and stork-agent)
and I didn't see you mention the second part.  On the server where you
are running Kea, there should also be a stork-agent installed.  I am
unsure if you completed that step because you haven't mentioned it and
there are no logs shown.  The stork-server does not connect directly
to the kea-ctrl-agent.  See quickstart guide here:
https://kb.isc.org/docs/stork-quickstart-guide

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM Lucas Petrino <nsx1luke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Not sure if this is the right place, I first tried to signup for at the
> GitLab site to create a issue, however it would not accept this email
> address.
>
> I am attempting to setup a stork server to manage a few Kea instances.
>
> Kea and the Kea Control Agent are running in one VM and stork is running
> in another. I have confirmed that stork can connect to the control
> agent, and the server appears in the stork UI, however no actions can be
> performed, this version shows as a blank string, and going to the
> "Software versions" tab results in "An error occurred when retrieving
> software version data: Couldn't parse valid semver from given undefined
> version!"
>
> Looking at the stork server logs I see:
>
> Oct 27 05:54:10 stork-92bky3sw stork-server[2356]: time="2025-10-27
> 05:54:10" level="info" msg="Completed pulling DHCP status from Kea apps:
> 0/0 succeeded" file="           status.go:258  "
> Oct 27 05:54:20 stork-92bky3sw stork-server[2356]: time="2025-10-27
> 05:54:20" level="warning" msg="Problem getting state from Kea CA: cannot
> find Kea app" file="           appkea.go:303  "
> Oct 27 05:54:20 stork-92bky3sw stork-server[2356]: time="2025-10-27
> 05:54:20" level="warning" msg="Problem getting state from Kea daemons:
> cannot find Kea app" file="           appkea.go:309  "
> Oct 27 05:54:20 stork-92bky3sw stork-server[2356]: time="2025-10-27
> 05:54:20" level="info" msg="Completed pulling information from machines:
> 1/1 succeeded" file="      statepuller.go:73   "
> Oct 27 05:54:40 stork-92bky3sw stork-server[2356]: time="2025-10-27
> 05:54:40" level="info" msg="Completed pulling DHCP status from Kea apps:
> 0/0 succeeded" file="           status.go:258  "
>
> On the kea and kea control agent side I see version and config get
> commands being received.
>
> Running the following command on the stork server:
> curl -6 -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"      -d '{
> "command": "version-get", "service": [ "dhcp6" ] }'
> http://[fdd7:d404:ca7c:20::200]:8000/
>
> (fdd7:d404:ca7c:20::200 is my Kea server)
>
> Results in:
>
> [ { "arguments": { "extended": "3.0.1 (3.0.1 (isc20250820123020.el9
> rpm))\npremium: yes (isc20250820123020.el9 rpm)\nlinked with:\n-
> log4cplus 2.0.5\n- OpenSSL 3.2.2 4 Jun 2024\nlease backends:\n- Memfile
> backend 5.0\n- PostgreSQL backend 29.0, library 130020\nhost
> backends:\n- PostgreSQL backend 29.0, library 130020\nforensic
> backends:\n- PostgreSQL backend 29.0, library 130020" }, "result": 0,
> "text": "3.0.1" } ]
>
>
> Not sure what steps I should take to debug.
>
> Kea Version: 3.0.1
> Stork Version: 2.2.1
> OS: AlmaLinux 9
>
> Would appreciate any help, or if there is somewhere else I should be
> asking this.
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
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