[Kea-users] Automatic "ha-maintenance-start" on controlled shutdown?

[Darren Ankney]

Hi Jonas,

Please make your feature request here:
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/work_items so it isn't
forgotten.

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 7:30 AM Jonas Alfredsson via Kea-users
<kea-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>
> I was reading the section about controlled shutdown of Kea servers in a HA setup:
> https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/stable/arm/hooks.html#controlled-shutdown-and-maintenance-of-dhcp-servers
> and was wondering if it is a valid feature request to have Kea automatically send this
> command to its partners on controlled shutdown/restart/sigint?
>
> It mig not need to be enabled by default, but to me it don't sound like a bad idea for Kea
> to at least try to notify its partner that it will go down if it has the ability (i.e. anytime except
> for a hard crash).
>
> Best regards,
> Jonas
>
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