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Web-Based DHCP Server Frontends?

Posted by Cliff on from the making-maintenance-easy dept.

Strog writes "We are securing our administrative network and one thing we decided to implement is allowing only known MAC addresses get an address from the DHCP server. The techs aren't very Unix-centric so we would prefer to keep them out of the server directly. A web-based admin tool is what we are looking for. I've used webmin for a while but it likes to give each host a nice little icon which wouldn't be so good once we get all ~750 machines entered. Dixie looks good too but leaves a few too many options for techs to look at. I'm in the process of hacking webmin into what I need but wondered if anyone out there has some good options to offer. What we really need is boxes for hostname, MAC address and apply button and a list of current entries and a delete button." This was recently asked on a mailing list, but so far, no answers have been given. Might someone here have experience with such software that they would like to share?

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  1. webmin doesnt have to show icons by NateSac · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hope this helps you. If you click on the module config button in webmin, the second option from the top is labled;
    Display subnets and hosts as _ Icons _ List
    If you set this option to list, webmin wil not display an icon for each host. Further more, if you have a large number of DHCP clients, you may also want to use groups to help organize some of those clients into smaller lists.

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    1. Re:webmin doesnt have to show icons by Strog · · Score: 2, Informative

      I submitted this article Friday so I've had some time with webmin this weekend.

      Goto your theme directory and put noicons=1 in the config file (/usr/share/webmin/themename/config in my system). This gives icons in the categories but none in the module itself. This looks like it will scale up to hundreds of entries with ease. I have 150 in my test machine now and you don't have to scroll much yet.

      I'm editing out all the unneeded fields and buttons in the cgi files now. Mostly consists of rem'ing out the print statements in the index.cgi, edit_host.cgi and params-lib.pl files so far. I've got the buttons down to create, save, delete and apply.

      I can't seem to get rid lease time, dynamic DNS and a couple other options without it breaking. It tries to send a null instead of going with the default. It's really in a workable state for us right now but I'd love to get it down to our 2 boxes we want and nothing else.

      It is said that 10% of the project takes 90% of the time. Looks like it is holding up here on this project for me.

  2. NetReg by bongoras · · Score: 2, Informative

    NetReg is an automated system that requires an unknown DHCP client to register their hardware before gaining full network access. Through a simple web interface, the client is prompted for their user identification. Powerful scripts then retrieve the client's network fingerprint and store it along with the user's information in a database. The database provides administrators with real-time information for troubleshooting and auditing their networks. The entire system was developed utilizing unmodified, open-source servers and in-house developed CGI programs.

    http://www.netreg.org