[Kea-users] Read only hosts table?

[Marcin Siodelski]

On 26.04.2016 14:19, Marcin Siodelski wrote:
> On 08.04.2016 20:50, Brian Rak wrote:
>> I'm attempting to link our existing inventory system to Kea, so that Kea
>> will hand out leases based on the IP <-> MAC associations that we
>> already know about.
>>
>> I tried to set this up by using the 'hosts-database' option, but it
>> seems that Kea currently needs write access to that table.  Is that
>> correct? Specifically, when it first starts up it tries to prepare an
>> insert query, which fails if it doesn't have permissions.
>>
>> My plan here was going to be to create a mysql view to map our existing
>> data into what Kea expects, but I don't want Kea to try and change things.
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this?  We have too many hosts to just
>> prepopulate the config file with them.
> 
> 
> Brian,
> 
> Thanks for bringing up your problem with the hosts database. You seem to
> have a good use case which requires ReadOnly access to the database, and
> I also confirmed that Kea configuration falls over when the user only
> has ReadOnly privileges granted.
> 
> I opened a new Kea ticket to address this issue:
> 
> https://kea.isc.org/ticket/4489
> 
> We have to discuss it internally with the team how that fits into our
> schedule. However, the 1.1.0 release (on which we're working now) is
> aimed at completing the host reservations implementation, so this ticket
> seems to belong to this release.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Marcin Siodelski
> ISC
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Hi Brian,

Just wanted to let you know that we have implemented ticket #4489 and
that read-only hosts database will be included in the upcoming Kea
1.1-beta and then Kea 1.1 final release.

Regards,
Marcin Siodelski
ISC