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I believe the Host Commands Library premium hook does this.
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Joseph B.<br>
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On Aug 14, 2018, at 5:05 PM, Tom Gillman <<a href="mailto:Tom.Gillman@virtustream.com">Tom.Gillman@virtustream.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Howdy folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m trying to implement something with kea and I was hoping to pick the hive brain.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I’m trying to do is, on a request for DHCP, format a JSON query to a network service that will return a hostname and IP address. Then, generate a lease (using memfile) which then gets returned to the requesting client. I can do all
that in a shell, which I was using the kea-hook-runscript hook library to do. The first part all works well. The problem comes in trying to update the memfile. The kea-hook-runscript calls an external shell to do the work, and blocks waiting on that shell
to exit. Because it’s blocked, I can’t issue any lease commands through the control channel to do the updates I desire.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure how to get around this, I feel like making the external callout non-blocking would introduce race conditions that would bite me later on. The only real solution I see is use a 3<sup>rd</sup>-party DB like mysql and handle the
updates within the script, but that introduces overhead that I’m unwilling to do.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not much of a programmer, so saying “Build your own hook library” really isn’t an option given the time constraints I’m under. I feel like I might eventually be able to it, but I simply don’t have the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any suggestions? Any constructive criticism is appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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