Wednesday 25 April 2012

How to know the status of DHCP Server if it is down ?

Through  ISC-DHCP forum i came to know about two great tools which will check the status of DHCP Server and if it is down will inform admin or take appropriate action.

http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.php

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6621-PHP-Send-queries-to-a-DHCP-server.html

I have not used it myself, you can try them and let me know your comments.