phpDHCPAdmin

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phpDHCPAdmin-0.9.5-beta All rights reserved 2004-2010 Jason L. Gerfen

DESCRIPTION This application was designed as a web based interface to assist in management of the ISC DHCPD Service. It was designed with security, ease of use, RFC conformity and scalability in mind.

FEATURES

• Commonly used global options (RFC-2131, RFC-2132)
• Dynamic DNS zone transfers (RFC-2136)
• Multiple DNSSEC key support for use with DNS zone transfers (RFC-1034, RFC-1035)
• Failover (peer/master) per (RFC-2131)
• Multiple DNSSEC key definition support
• Multiple DNS zone configuration support
• Multiple Subnet w/ or w/o dynamic scope support
• Multiple PXE groups w/ or w/o static host support
• Dynamic Classes configuration support
• Multiple Pool configuration support
• Shared-network configuration support
• Static host support (assign to subnet and/or pxe group) support
• Search option for large scale static host configurations
• Group support (for large scale environments where access to department configurations should be limited)
• Access level support (also for tiered access to global configuration options vs. the need to edit and restart the dhcpd service)
• Dynamic processing of currently configured network interfaces
• Dynamic graphing support for traffic, subnet to host assignments etc.

DOWNLOAD You can download the latest version of the phpDHCPAdmin application at the following URL: http://phpdhcpadmin.sourceforge.net

INSTALLATION To install the application you will need to extract the .tgz archive into your webservers root folder: %> tar zxvf phpDHCPAdmin-0.9.5-beta.tgz

CONFIGURATION In order to begin using the application you will need to configure it specifically for your web server environment, create the necessary database tables and setup a simple crontab entry as a root user. The three steps are outlined below:

1. Edit the configuration file 'inc.config.php' located in the 'scripts/' directory.

The necessary configuration directives specific for your operating environment are:

$defined['hostname'] <-- This is the domain or web server name (ex. http://phpdhcpadmin.com or 192.168.0.1)

$defined['username'] <-- This is the username that needs to be created on your MySQL database.

$defined['password'] <-- This is the password associated with the user you are accessing the database with

$defined['virpath'] <-- This is the path to the installation folder (ex. /webroot/htdocs/phpDHCPAmin)

2. Accompanying this distibution is a .sql file you can utilize to create the necessary tables.

An example of importing this file is as follows; %> mysql -u root -p < /path/setup/phpDHCPAdmin-0.9.5-beta.sql

Or you can utilize the installation script located in the 'setup' folder to help you setup the database schema as well as the configuration directives.

3. Point any web browser to the newly installed application and login with the user 'admin' and no password.

** You should setup an administrative user password but there should always be only 1 user associated with the admin group as this user is similar to a root user on common linux OS's.

4. Create a crontab entry which will attempt to detect if the dhcpd.conf file has changed and restart the service.

*/1 * * * * php /path/cron.restart.dhcpd.php 2&>1 /dev/null

5. You will also need to set write permissions on the 'conf' folder. %> chmod -R 0755 conf

SUPPORT & BUG REPORTS For support options you can join the mailing list located at http://phpdhcpadmin.sourceforge.net

If you run into errors when 'restarting' the dhcpd service you may need to 1. set write permissions on the 'conf' directory and create a crontab entry to run as the root user which would execute the file '/path/to/phpDHCPAdmin/bin/cron.restart.dhcpd.php'. An example follows: */1 * * * * php /path/cron.restart.dhcpd.php 2&>1 /dev/null