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Integration with microsoft windows 2003 networking/active directory

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Getting DHCP Lease information into VitalQIP – VitalQIP DHCP Monitor

Server

VitalQIP has a service to monitor MS-DHCP's leases and send them to the VitalQIP

Enterprise server. In brief, the VitalQIP MS-DHCP Monitor Service works by monitor-

ing the logs of the MS-DHCP service. It restarts MS-DHCP and turns this logging on

automatically, if necessary. The VitalQIP MS-DHCP Monitor Service on a periodic basis

processes this log, with the time period being configurable by the "SleepTime" parameter

in the qip.pcy file. The Monitor Service then creates VitalQIP Messages of Type "DHCP"

for the VitalQIP Message Service, in the same way that Alcatel-Lucent DHCP does. The

VitalQIP Message Service then handles these messages according to the Message

Routes. In this case, the MSDHCP server should have a Message Route of type DHCP

going to the QIP Update Service at the IP address of the Enterprise server but no other

Message Routes of type DHCP.

Using static IP objects and getting them into DNS

In Solution 2, a DHCP child domain should contain the objects for DHCP clients, and the

SRV records should go into the underscore child domains. The parent domain would

Alcatel-Lucent | Integration of VitalQIP® with Microsoft Windows 2003 Networking/Active Directory

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