Whether you are using ISC DHCP or Windows, deploying and managing a DHCP service comes with its own set of headaches:
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- Initial DHCP setup requires in-depth configuration expertise and detailed knowledge
- Updating DHCP configurations is time-consuming & error prone, particularly for organisations with complex provisioning requirements. A single misconfiguration could bring down your network.
- Information about which addresses are in use and the remaining available address space can be difficult to obtain or unclear. Without visibility, it’s impossible to plan and control your IP address space effectively.
- There is no historical insight on IP leases or finding relevant information takes hours
- Server maintenance tasks such as updating software generally requires rebooting the server, and impact any time-critical applications that rely on DHCP
- Updating software can break existing configurations files. Fixing the fault is by trial-and-error and can take a long time.
- In split-scope networks, multiple DHCP servers share the same data in different databases making the service vulnerable and difficult to manage due to updates regarding each server’s view of the network
- Configuring a reliable failover mechanism is really difficult. But without failover, DHCP server failure leads to network downtime and time-consuming data retrieval. Alternatives have been limited to complicated high-end DDI solutions or limited, resource-intensive open-source solutions.
- Windows DHCP poses particular challenges: instability, performance issues, no historical overview, difficult troubleshooting, no failover, problematic split-scope.
- Cisco routers and ISC’s DHCPd have limited failover functionality – implementation requires expert DHCP knowledge and complicated workarounds.
Whether you’re an enterprise with large IP phone deployments or BYOD schemes to manage or an ISP that needs to dynamically assign addresses to customer routers, you need to simplify, control and protect your DHCP service. A DNSBOX integrated DDI solution will simplify day-to-day administration, improve visibility & control of IP usage and provide a high level of resilience and availability.
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