Need to monitor DHCP performance remotely

[Simon Hobson]

Rob Tanner wrote:

>I need to set up DHCP probes in several remote areas of campus to 
>monitor DHCP response times -- not so much the performance of the 
>server itself but rather how long it takes to get a response back 
>over the network.  The probes would be running on statically 
>addressed Linux boxes and log the response times.

IIRC there is a DHCP monitor for Nagios, so you could use NRPE to run 
this on remote probes. I like Nagios !