Addresses

When you select the Addresses tab in the main window, DHCP Manager displays the client records in the selected network, sorted by host name. These records are stored in the DHCP network tables maintained by the data store.

List Addresses
To view the records sorted by IP address, click Show Address in the View menu. Servers and clients are listed by IP address instead of by host name.

Change Sort
The client records are sorted by client IP address or host name. To change the sort, click in the column header. For example, click the Server column heading to view the records alphabetically in ascending order by server name. Hold down the Shift key and click the Server column heading to view the records listed by server in descending order.

Add Address
To add new addresses to the selected network, choose the Address Wizard from the Edit menu. You can add a single address by selecting Create from the Edit menu.

Modify Address
You can select an address and view the settings assigned to that address, modify one or more settings, and release or delete addresses in the list.

Address Settings
The address settings are described in the following table.

IP Address An IP address in the selected network that can be made available to DHCP clients.

Status The lease and address attributes assigned to the client:

Dynamic DHCP server is responsible for the allocation and re-allocation of IP addresses.

Permanent Disable evaluation of the lease setting (lease is permanent).

Reserved
(Manual) The address is reserved for this client (manually assigned). The DHCP server cannot assign this address to another client. The address cannot be reclaimed by the DHCP server.

BOOTP The selected IP addresses are reserved for BOOTP clients only.

Unusable This address is not usable. This setting can also be used in combination with the Reserved setting to prevent the client from booting.

Expires The date the lease expires for this IP address. You can specify an expiration date for the lease in mm/dd/yyyy format.

Server The IP address of the DHCP server that owns this IP address. This server is responsible for initially responding to the DHCP client's request for an IP address.

Macro An optional macro for the server to use to obtain client configuration parameters from the dhcptab.

Client ID A unique indentifier of the DHCP or BOOTP client using this address. The client ID is determined by the vendor of the DHCP client. For non-Solaris DHCP clients, consult your DHCP client documentation for more information.
For Solaris DHCP clients, the client ID is a string created by the concatenation of the network hardware type and the client's hardware address. For example, a client with a hardware type of 01 (10-Mb Ethernet) and a hardware address of 8:0:20:11:12:b7 would have a client ID of 010800201112B7.
An entry with a Client ID value of 00 indicates that the address is freely available for dynamic allocation to a requesting client.

Comment An optional text comment.

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