System Administration Guide: IP Services

ProcedureHow to Enable and Disable DHCP Transaction Logging (Command Line)

  1. Become superuser or assume a role or user name that is assigned to the DHCP Management profile.

    For more information about the DHCP Management profile, see Setting Up User Access to DHCP Commands.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Choose one of the following steps:

    • To enable DHCP transaction logging, type the following command:


      # /usr/sbin/dhcpconfig -P LOGGING_FACILITY=syslog-local-facility
      

      syslog-local-facility is a number from 0 through 7. If you omit this option, 0 is used.

      By default, DHCP transactions are logged to the location where system notices are logged, which depends on how syslogd is configured. If you want the DHCP transactions to be logged to a file separate from other system notices, see How to Log DHCP Transactions to a Separate syslog File.

      Message files can quickly become very large when transaction logging is enabled.

    • To disable DHCP transaction logging, type the following command:


      # /usr/sbin/dhcpconfig -P LOGGING_FACILITY=
      

      Note that you supply no value for the parameter.