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Neither the name of The Internet Software Consortium nor the names +.\" of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived +.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM AND +.\" CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, +.\" INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE +.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM OR +.\" CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, +.\" SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT +.\" LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF +.\" USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND +.\" ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, +.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT +.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" This software has been written for the Internet Software Consortium +.\" by Ted Lemon in cooperation with Vixie Enterprises and Nominum, Inc. +.\" To learn more about the Internet Software Consortium, see +.\" ``http://www.isc.org/''. To learn more about Vixie Enterprises, +.\" see ``http://www.vix.com''. To learn more about Nominum, Inc., see +.\" ``http://www.nominum.com''. +.TH omshell 1 +.SH NAME +omshell - OMAPI Command Shell +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B omshell +.SH DESCRIPTION +The OMAPI Command Shell, omshell, provides an interactive way to connect to, +query, and possibly change, the ISC DHCP Server's state via OMAPI, the Object +Management API. By using OMAPI and omshell, you do not have to stop, make +changes, and then restart the DHCP server, but can make the changes +while the server is running. Omshell provides a way of accessing +OMAPI. +.PP +OMAPI is simply a communications mechanism that allows you to +manipulate objects. In order to actually \fIuse\fR omshell, you +.I must +understand what objects are available and how to use them. +Documentation for OMAPI objects can be found in the documentation for +the server that provides them - for example, in the \fBdhcpd(1)\fR +manual page and the \fBdhclient(1)\fR manual page. +.SH CONTRIBUTIONS +.PP +This software is free software. At various times its development has +been underwritten by various organizations, including the ISC and +Vixie Enterprises. The development of 3.0 has been funded almost +entirely by Nominum, Inc. +.PP +At this point development is being shepherded by Ted Lemon, and hosted +by the ISC, but the future of this project depends on you. If you +have features you want, please consider implementing them. +.SH LOCAL AND REMOTE OBJECTS +.PP +Throughout this document, there are references to local and remote objects. +Local objects are ones created in omshell with the \fBnew\fR command. Remote +objects are ones on the server: leases, hosts, and groups that the DHCP +server knows about. Local and remote objects are associated together to +enable viewing and modification of object attributes. Also, new remote +objects can be created to match local objects. +.SH OPENING A CONNECTION +.PP +omshell is started from the command line. Once omshell is started, there are +several commands that can be issued: +.PP +.B server \fIaddress\fR +.RS 0.5i +where address is the IP address of the DHCP server to connect to. If this is +not specified, the default server is 127.0.0.1 (localhost). +.RE +.PP +.B port \fInumber\fR +.RS 0.5i +where number is the port that OMAPI listens on. By default, this is 7911. +.RE +.PP +.B key \fIname secret\fR +.RS 0.5i +This specifies the TSIG key to use to authenticate the OMAPI transactions. +\fIname\fR is the name of a key defined in \fIdhcpd.conf\fR with the +\fBomapi-key\fR statement. The \fIsecret\fR is the secret generated from +\fBdnssec-keygen\fR or another key generation program. +.RE +.PP +.B connect +.RS 0.5i +This starts the OMAPI connection to the server as specified by the \fIserver\fR +statement. +.SH CREATING LOCAL OBJECTS +.PP +Any object defined in OMAPI can be created, queried, and/or modified. The +object types available to OMAPI are defined in \fBdhcpd(8)\fR and +\fBdhclient\fR. When using omshell, objects are first defined locally, +manipulated as desired, and then associated with an object on the server. +Only one object can be manipulated at a time. To create a local object, use +.PP +.B new \fIobject-type\fR +.RS 0.5i +\fIobject-type\fR is one of group, host, or lease. +.RE +.PP +At this point, you now have an object that you can set properties on. For +example, if a new lease object was created with \fInew lease\fR, any of a +lease's attributes can be set as follows: +.PP +.B set \fIattribute-name = value\fR +.RS 0.5i +\fBAttribute names are defined in \fBdhcpd(8)\fR and \fBdhclient(8)\fR. +Values should be quoted if they are strings. So, to set a lease's IP address, +you would do the following: +\fB set ip-address = 192.168.4.50\fR +.SH ASSOCIATING LOCAL AND REMOTE OBJECTS +.PP +At this point, you can query the server for information about this lease, by +.PP +.B open +.PP +Now, the local lease object you created and set the IP address for is associated +with the corresponding lease object on the DHCP server. All of the lease +attributes from the DHCP server are now also the attributes on the local +object, and will be shown in omshell. +.SH VIEWING A REMOTE OBJECT +.PP +To query a lease of address 192.168.4.50, and find out its attributes, after +connecting to the server, take the following steps: +.PP +.B new "lease" +.PP +This creates a new local lease object. +.PP +.B set ip-address = 192.168.4.50 +.PP +This sets the \fIlocal\fR object's IP address to be 192.168.4.50 +.PP +.B open +.PP +Now, if a lease with that IP address exists, you will see all the information +the DHCP server has about that particular lease. Any data that isn't readily +printable text will show up in colon-separated hexadecimal values. In this +example, output back from the server for the entire transaction might look +like this: +.nf +.sp 1 +> new "lease" +obj: lease +> set ip-address = 192.168.4.50 +obj: lease +ip-address = c0:a8:04:32 +> open +obj: lease +ip-address = c0:a8:04:32 +state = 00:00:00:02 +dhcp-client-identifier = 01:00:10:a4:b2:36:2c +client-hostname = "wendelina" +subnet = 00:00:00:06 +pool = 00:00:00:07 +hardware-address = 00:10:a4:b2:36:2c +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ends = dc:d9:0d:3b +starts = 5c:9f:04:3b +tstp = 00:00:00:00 +tsfp = 00:00:00:00 +cltt = 00:00:00:00 +.fi +.PP +As you can see here, the IP address is represented in hexadecimal, as are the +starting and ending times of the lease. +.SH MODIFYING A REMOTE OBJECT +.PP +Attributes of remote objects are updated by using the \fBset\fR command as +before, and then issuing an \fBupdate\fR command. The \fBset\fR command sets +the attributes on the current local object, and the \fBupdate\fR command +pushes those changes out to the server. +.PP +Continuing with the previous example, if a \fBset client-hostname = +"something-else"\fR was issued, followed by an \fBupdate\fR command, the +output would look about like this: +.nf +.sp 1 +> set client-hostname = "something-else" +obj: lease +ip-address = c0:a8:04:32 +state = 00:00:00:02 +dhcp-client-identifier = 01:00:10:a4:b2:36:2c +client-hostname = "something-else" +subnet = 00:00:00:06 +pool = 00:00:00:07 +hardware-address = 00:10:a4:b2:36:2c +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ends = dc:d9:0d:3b +starts = 5c:9f:04:3b +tstp = 00:00:00:00 +tsfp = 00:00:00:00 +cltt = 00:00:00:00 +> update +obj: lease +ip-address = c0:a8:04:32 +state = 00:00:00:02 +dhcp-client-identifier = 01:00:10:a4:b2:36:2c +client-hostname = "something-else" +subnet = 00:00:00:06 +pool = 00:00:00:07 +hardware-address = 00:10:a4:b2:36:2c +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ends = dc:d9:0d:3b +starts = 5c:9f:04:3b +tstp = 00:00:00:00 +tsfp = 00:00:00:00 +cltt = 00:00:00:00 +.fi +.SH NEW REMOTE OBJECTS +.PP +New remote objects are created much in the same way that existing server +objects are modified. Create a local object using \fBnew\fR, set the +attributes as you'd wish them to be, and then create the remote object with +the same properties by using +.PP +.B create +.PP +Now a new object exists on the DHCP server which matches the properties that +you gave your local object. Objects created via OMAPI are saved into the +dhcpd.leases file. +.PP +For example, if a new host with the IP address of 192.168.4.40 needs to be +created it would be done as follows: +.nf +.sp 1 +> new host +obj: host +> set name = "some-host" +obj: host +name = "some-host" +> set hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +> set hardware-type = 1 +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +hardware-type = 1 +> set ip-address = 192.168.4.40 +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +hardware-type = 1 +ip-address = c0:a8:04:28 +> create +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ip-address = c0:a8:04:28 +> +.fi +.PP +Your dhcpd.leases file would then have an entry like this in it: +.nf +.sp 1 +host some-host { + dynamic; + hardware ethernet 00:80:c7:84:b1:94; + fixed-address 192.168.4.40; +} +.fi +.PP +The \fIdynamic;\fR line is to denote that this host entry did not come from +dhcpd.conf, but was created dynamically via OMAPI. +.SH RESETTING ATTRIBUTES +.PP +If you want to remove an attribute from an object, you can do this with the +\fBunset\fR command. Once you have unset an attribute, you must use the +\fBupdate\fR command to update the remote object. So, if the host "some-host" +from the previous example will not have a static IP address anymore, the +commands in omshell would look like this: +.nf +.sp 1 +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ip-address = c0:a8:04:28 +> unset ip-address +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ip-address = <null> +> +.fi +.SH REFRESHING OBJECTS +.PP +A local object may be refreshed with the current remote object properties +using the \fBrefresh\fR command. This is useful for object that change +periodically, like leases, to see if they have been updated. This isn't +particularly useful for hosts. +.SH DELETING OBJECTS +.PP +Any remote object that can be created can also be destroyed. This is done by +creating a new local object, setting attributes, associating the local and +remote object using \fBopen\fI, and then using the \fBremove\fR command. +If the host "some-host" from before was created in error, this could be +corrected as follows: +.nf +.sp 1 +obj: host +name = "some-host" +hardware-address = 00:80:c7:84:b1:94 +hardware-type = 00:00:00:01 +ip-address = c0:a8:04:28 +> remove +obj: <null> +> +.fi +.SH HELP +.PP +The \fBhelp\fR command will print out all of the commands available in +omshell, with some syntax pointers. +.SH SEE ALSO +dhcpctl(3), omapi(3), dhcpd(8), dhclient(8), dhcpd.conf(5), dhclient.conf(5). +.SH AUTHOR +.B omshell +was written by Ted Lemon of Nominum, Inc. Information about Nominum +and support contracts for DHCP and BIND can be found at +.B http://www.nominum.com. This preliminary documentation was +written by Wendy Verschoor of Nominum, Inc., while she was testing +omshell. |