Customisation guidance

While quite usable out-of-the-box, especially for its intended purpose, which is serving static DHCP “leases”, different sites have different needs, and some sites want as few frills as possible.

This section exists to cover the various bells and whistles available.

• Configuration guide
  • conf.py
  • Parameters
• Scripting guide
  • Organising your setup
  • Important data-types
  • Customising DHCP behaviour
  • Using system callbacks
  • Logging facilities
  • conf.py Environment
• Working with extension modules
  • Configuring modules
  • Developing your own module

For the sysadmins out there working in acutely memory-constrained environments (that still have enough space to support a Python interpreter), as a general design guideline, staticDHCPd avoids loading anything it doesn’t absolutely need: if you choose not to enable the web subsystem, for example, it won’t ever be read from disk.

Additionally, staticDHCPd is pretty open to tuning, so if you know a lot about the sort of load your environment will handle, you can change properties like checkinterval to adjust threading and resource priotisation and responsiveness.