[Kea-users] Updating kea.conf - does it need a daemon restart

[Jason Lixfeld]

> 
> On Sep 14, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Thomas Markwalder <tmark at isc.org <mailto:tmark at isc.org>> wrote:
> 
> On 9/14/17 10:10 AM, Neil Briscoe wrote:
>> 
>> One of the main reasons I have gone down the KEA route over the older
>> DHCPd is due to the fact that the documentation says I can
>> add/change/remove scopes from the configuration file *_without having
>> to restart the daemon_* – which is important as I have approx. 10,000
>> subnet scopes…!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> At the minute, during testing, I am restarting the daemon every time,
>> which isn’t a problem.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Q – if I made changes to the kea.conf file (adding scopes), does the
>> kea daemon feed these in and make the changes active automatically?
>> 
>> Q – if it does it automatically, how often does it check/reload the
>> configuration?
>> 
>>  
>> 
> 
> It does not detect the changes automatically.   You can instruct Kea to
> reload it a couple of ways:
> 
> 1. Send the process SIGHUP

Is this synonymous with keactl reload?

> 2. Sendi the config-reload command via control channel (See Kea Admin
> guide: Chapter 16, Management API
> http://kea.isc.org/docs/kea-guide.html#ctrl-channel <http://kea.isc.org/docs/kea-guide.html#ctrl-channel>)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas Markwalder
> ISC Software Engineering
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> *Neil Briscoe*
>> 
>> 
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