DHCP server monitoring

[Chris]

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Is there anyway or any utility that we could use to monitor
the leases on a subnet without having to use the MMC.

It would be great if an alert could be emailed out stating
that a subnet had less than 10% of its leases available.
The MMC tool is way to slow and we can't use this when we
are on the road.

Thank you
Chris

 

[Guest]

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Wouldnt something like this be written to the Event Log? I'm sure there must be something that will fire off an email or something based on event log events.

 

[Guest]

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"Chris" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<258b01c41bfb$54c9f780$3501280a@phx.gbl>...
> Is there anyway or any utility that we could use to monitor
> the leases on a subnet without having to use the MMC.


If you know how many potential address are available,
DHCPcmd can enumerate active leases. You can use
this in a script to determine how many are available

The following link gives you more info and you can download
it there.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q232/2/13.ASP&NoWebContent=1

You should also be able to use netsh something like this:

netsh dhcp server 192.168.0.2 scope 192.168.10.0 show clients

This also enumerates leases and you will need to calculate available
leases if you need that information.

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Matt Hickman
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[Chris]

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Thanks, that'll work