Chapter 15

Administering DHCP (Tasks)

This chapter describes tasks that you might find useful when you administer the Solaris DHCP service. The chapter includes tasks for the server, BOOTP relay agent, and client. Each task includes a procedure to help you perform the task in DHCP Manager and a procedure for the equivalent task with DHCP command-line utilities. DHCP command-line utilities are more fully documented in man pages.

You should have already completed the initial configuration of your DHCP service and initial network before you use this chapter. Chapter 14, Configuring the DHCP Service (Tasks) discusses DHCP configuration.

This chapter contains the following information:

• About DHCP Manager

• Setting Up User Access to DHCP Commands

• Starting and Stopping the DHCP Service

• DHCP Service and the Service Management Facility

• Modifying DHCP Service Options (Task Map)

• Adding, Modifying, and Removing DHCP Networks (Task Map)

• Supporting BOOTP Clients With the DHCP Service (Task Map)

• Working With IP Addresses in the DHCP Service (Task Map)

• Working With DHCP Macros (Task Map)

• Working With DHCP Options (Task Map)

• Supporting Solaris Network Installation With the DHCP Service

• Supporting Remote Boot and Diskless Boot Clients (Task Map)

• Setting Up DHCP Clients to Receive Information Only (Task Map)

• Converting to a New DHCP Data Store

• Moving Configuration Data Between DHCP Servers (Task Map)