1KEA-CTRL-AGENT(8)                     Kea                    KEA-CTRL-AGENT(8)
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NAME

6       kea-ctrl-agent - Control Agent process in Kea
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SYNOPSIS

9       kea-ctrl-agent [-v] [-V] [-W] [-d] [-cconfig-file] [-tconfig-file]
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DESCRIPTION

12       The kea-ctrl-agent provides a REST service for controlling Kea
13       services. The received HTTP requests are decapsulated and forwarded to
14       the respective Kea services in JSON format. Received JSON responses are
15       encapsulated within HTTP responses and returned to the controlling
16       entity. Some commands may be handled by the Control Agent directly, and
17       not forwarded to any Kea service.
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ARGUMENTS

20       The arguments are as follows:
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22       -v
23           Display the version.
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25       -V
26           Display the extended version.
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28       -W
29           Display the configuration report.
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31       -d
32           Verbose mode sets the logging level to debug. This is primarily for
33           development purposes in stand-alone mode.
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35       -c
36           Configuration file including the configuration for the Control
37           Agent server. It may also contain configuration entries for other
38           Kea services.
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40       -t
41           Check the syntax of the configuration file and report the first
42           error if any. Note that not all parameters are completely checked,
43           in particular, service and client sockets are not opened, and hook
44           libraries are not loaded.
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DOCUMENTATION

47       Kea comes with an extensive Kea User's Guide documentation that covers
48       all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installation,
49       configuration, configuration examples and many more. Kea also features
50       a Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea can print
51       with a brief description for each of them. Both documents are typically
52       available in various formats (txt, html, pdf) with your Kea
53       distribution. The on-line version is available at
54       http://kea.isc.org/docs/.
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56       Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide. It's
57       on-line version is available at http://kea.isc.org. Please follow
58       Developer's Guide link.
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60       Kea project website is available at: http://kea.isc.org.
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MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT

63       There are two mailing lists available for Kea project. kea-users
64       (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users, while kea-dev
65       (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea developers, prospective
66       contributors and other advanced users. Both lists are available at
67       http://lists.isc.org. The community provides best effort type of
68       support on both of those lists.
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70       ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See
71       https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details.
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HISTORY

74       The kea-ctrl-agent was first coded in December 2016 by Marcin
75       Siodelski.
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SEE ALSO

78       kea-dhcp4(8), kea-dhcp6(8), kea-dhcp-ddns(8), kea-admin(8), keactrl(8),
79       perfdhcp(8), kea-lfc(8), Kea Administrator's Guide.
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AUTHOR

82       The Kea software has been written by a number of engineers working for
83       ISC: Tomek Mrugalski, Stephen Morris, Marcin Siodelski, Thomas
84       Markwalder, Francis Dupont, Jeremy C. Reed, Wlodek Wencel and Shawn
85       Routhier. That list is roughly in the chronological order in which the
86       authors made their first contribution. For a complete list of authors
87       and contributors, see AUTHORS file.
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90       Copyright © 2016-2017 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
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