kea/src/bin/agent/kea-ctrl-agent.xml

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<refentry>

  <refentryinfo>
    <productname>ISC Kea</productname>
    <date>Sep. 28, 2016</date>
    <edition>1.1.0</edition>
    <author>
      <contrib>The Kea software has been written by a number of
        engineers working for ISC: Tomek Mrugalski, Stephen Morris, Marcin
        Siodelski, Thomas Markwalder, Francis Dupont, Jeremy C. Reed,
        Wlodek Wencel and Shawn Routhier.  That list is roughly in the
        chronological order in which the authors made their first
        contribution. For a complete list of authors and
        contributors, see AUTHORS file.</contrib>
      <orgname>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</orgname>
    </author>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>kea-ctrl-agent</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">Kea</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>kea-ctrl-agent</refname>
    <refpurpose>Control Agent process in Kea</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <docinfo>
    <copyright>
      <year>2016</year>
      <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
    </copyright>
  </docinfo>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>kea-ctrl-agent</command>
      <arg><option>-v</option></arg>
      <arg><option>-V</option></arg>
      <arg><option>-W</option></arg>
      <arg><option>-d</option></arg>
      <arg><option>-c<replaceable class="parameter">config-file</replaceable></option></arg>
      <arg><option>-t<replaceable class="parameter">config-file</replaceable></option></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>


  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      The <command>kea-ctrl-agent</command> provides a REST service for
      controlling Kea services. The received HTTP requests are decapsulated
      and forwarded to the respective Kea services in JSON format. Received
      JSON responses are encapsulated within HTTP responses and returned to
      the controlling entity. Some commands may be handled by the Control
      Agent directly, and not forwarded to any Kea service.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>ARGUMENTS</title>

    <para>The arguments are as follows:</para>

    <variablelist>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-v</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Display the version.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-V</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Display the extended version.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-W</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Display the configuration report.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-d</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Verbose mode sets the logging level to debug. This is primarily
          for development purposes in stand-alone mode.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-c</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Configuration file including the configuration for the Control Agent
          server. It may also contain configuration entries for other Kea
          services.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-t</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
          Check the syntax of the configuration file and report the
          first error if any. Note that not all parameters are
          completely checked, in particular, service and client
          sockets are not opened, and hook libraries are not loaded.
        </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>DOCUMENTATION</title>
    <para>Kea comes with an extensive Kea User's Guide documentation
      that covers all aspects of running the Kea software -
      compilation, installation, configuration, configuration examples
      and many more. Kea also features a Kea Messages Manual, which
      lists all possible messages Kea can print with a brief
      description for each of them. Both documents are typically
      available in various formats (txt, html, pdf) with your Kea
      distribution. The on-line version is available at
      http://kea.isc.org/docs/.</para>
    <para>
      Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide. It's
      on-line version is available at http://kea.isc.org. Please
      follow Developer's Guide link.
    </para>
    <para>
      Kea project website is available at: http://kea.isc.org.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT</title>
    <para>
      There are two mailing lists available for Kea project. kea-users
      (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users, while kea-dev
      (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea developers, prospective
      contributors and other advanced users.  Both lists are available at
      http://lists.isc.org. The community provides best effort type of support
      on both of those lists.
    </para>
    <para>
      ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See
      https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>HISTORY</title>
    <para>
      The <command>kea-ctrl-agent</command> was first coded in December 2016
      by Marcin Siodelski.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-dhcp4</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-dhcp6</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-dhcp-ddns</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-admin</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>keactrl</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>perfdhcp</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>kea-lfc</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,

      <citetitle>Kea Administrator's Guide</citetitle>.

    </para>
  </refsect1>

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