Windows 2003 DHCP Monitoring

Previously our company had Novell DHCP services, and this provided us
a live monitor of all DHCP Requests, Acknowledgements, Denies, etc.

The Windows DHCP server seems to be lacking any kind of monitoring. It
does have logs that I can check, but a monitoring tool would be
preferred.

I'm also looking for some way to search for a specific MAC Address
within the system.

Is there some suite of tools available for enhancing my Windows DHCP
Administration beyond the minimalistic management snapin?

Thanks!

Paul
Tue Mar 25 13:56:52 PDT 2008

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but in the Performance
Monitor (on the DHCP Server) you can select DHCP Server as a
performance object, this allows (amongst other things) realtime
graphicsal display of the DHCP data.

In addition you can of course use counter logs and alerting.

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AlanW. wrote:
> Previously our company had Novell DHCP services, and this provided us
> a live monitor of all DHCP Requests, Acknowledgements, Denies, etc.
>
> The Windows DHCP server seems to be lacking any kind of monitoring. It
> does have logs that I can check, but a monitoring tool would be
> preferred.
>
> I'm also looking for some way to search for a specific MAC Address
> within the system.
>
> Is there some suite of tools available for enhancing my Windows DHCP
> Administration beyond the minimalistic management snapin?
>
> Thanks!