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.. iscman:: kea-netconf

``kea-netconf`` - NETCONF agent for configuring Kea
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Synopsis
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:program:`kea-netconf` [**-v**] [**-V**] [**-W**] [**-d**] [**-c** config-file] [**-t** config-file]

Description
~~~~~~~~~~~

The ``kea-netconf`` agent provides a YANG/NETCONF interface for the Kea
environment.

Arguments
~~~~~~~~~

The arguments are as follows:

``-v``
   Displays the Kea version.

``-V``
   Displays the extended Kea version.

``-W``
   Displays the configuration report.

``-d``
   Enables the debug mode with extra verbosity.

``-c config-file``
   Specifies the file with the configuration for the NETCONF agent.

``-t config-file``
   Checks the syntax of the configuration file and reports 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.

Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kea comes with an extensive Kea Administrator Reference Manual that covers
all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installation,
configuration, configuration examples, and much 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
available in various formats (.txt, .html, .pdf) with the Kea
distribution. The Kea documentation is available at
https://kea.readthedocs.io.

Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide,
available at https://reports.kea.isc.org/dev_guide/.

The Kea project website is available at https://kea.isc.org.

Mailing Lists and Support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are two public mailing lists available for the 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
https://lists.isc.org. The community provides best-effort support
on both of those lists.

ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See
https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details.

History
~~~~~~~

Early prototypes of ``kea-netconf`` implementation were written during IETF
Hackathons in Berlin, London, and Montreal. An actual production-ready
implementation was started in August 2018 by Tomek Mrugalski and Francis
Dupont.

See Also
~~~~~~~~

:manpage:`kea-dhcp4(8)`, :manpage:`kea-dhcp6(8)`, :manpage:`kea-dhcp-ddns(8)`,
:manpage:`kea-admin(8)`, :manpage:`keactrl(8)`,
:manpage:`perfdhcp(8)`, :manpage:`kea-lfc(8)`, Kea Administrator Reference Manual.
