Looking for MS DHCP help

[seanwin]

Hey all,

I'm trying to figure out how to set the logging on our MS dhcp servers to log Weekly as opposed to the default daily rotation. I also want to have the log files save 12 weeks then start back overwriting Week 1, then 2 and so on.

Is this possible? Any help would be great.

PS - why couldnt our dhcp be *nix based, the loggin possibilities are so much easier and broad.

[Hachima]

You can try looking at the keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\DHCPServer\Parameters to see if there is anything you can change that meets your needs. Usually the log rotation is set as a max size though.

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by seanwin

Hey all,
PS - why couldnt our dhcp be *nix based, the loggin possibilities are so much easier and broad.

Here's another question, why couldn't they be *nix based?

[elderec]

It's been a while since I've touched ms dhcp...but I don't think you can change the frequency of when it logs, only the daily log file size allotment...as for keeping them for 12 weeks, you would have to write a script or something that runs to copy the logs to an alternate location, or to rename the log files so that they aren't overwritten. Simple little batch file on a schedule should do the trick just fine.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by elderec

It's been a while since I've touched ms dhcp...but I don't think you can change the frequency of when it logs, only the daily log file size allotment...as for keeping them for 12 weeks, you would have to write a script or something that runs to copy the logs to an alternate location, or to rename the log files so that they aren't overwritten. Simple little batch file on a schedule should do the trick just fine.

I think a simple VB program, if you know VB, would be a better option. I can't think of simple command line that allows you to check if its week 12 and needs to be overridden.


I could be wrong though.