DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) enables computers on an IP network to extract their IP configurations from a DHCP server. This reduces the work necessary to administer a large IP network by allowing administrators to conserve their IP addresses by delegating the assignment of the addresses to the DHCP server thus removing the need for an administrator to have to assign a static IP address for each computer on the network.

To edit DHCP click the DHCP button in the Services panel to manage DHCP on servers. This causes the server tree to filter itself to show only the DHCP servers and opens the DHCP options in the configuration frame.

Individual changes
You can change DHCP on an individual server by working with the options collections. Or you can choose the server and click Edit Config File to edit its dhcpd.conf file directly.

Multiple Server Changes
You can only make changes to the DHCP Options on multiple servers at the same time, for the DHCP Client Options. Subnet Creation and Modification can only be done on one server at a time.

DHCP Configuration:

• Create a new subnet
• Create a new shared subnet
• Add a new host - Use DHCP to asign a static IP address to a host.
• Add a new host group
• View existing static hosts
• View existing host groups
• Edit Client options