The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) uses a client-server structure to provide configuration parameters to hosts. DHCP consists of a protocol for providing host-specific configuration parameters from a DHCP server (or collection of DHCP servers) to a host and a mechanism to allocate network addresses to a host.
NOTE: In this document, the term host refers to a network device that requires an IP address and might have a hostname.
When the DHCP server is loaded, it reads its configuration information from eDirectory and stores the information in its cache. As the DHCP server assigns addresses to clients, it updates eDirectory, adding IP address objects or modifying their eDirectory status information. The DHCP server can be configured to maintain an audit log of this activity. For information about maintaining an audit log of DHCP server activity, see Configuring DHCP Auditing .
The network administrator can use the DNS/DHCP Management Utility to view objects to see how addresses have been assigned.
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