KEA-NETCONF(8)

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💅 KEA-NETCONF(8) — the kea-netconf glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the kea-netconf(8) manual page, section 8, and yes she ate 💅 this is the whole thing, nothing skipped, no cap 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

kea-netconf — the NETCONF agent for configuring Kea, literally her whole job 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kea-netconf [-v] [-V] [-W] [-d] [-c config-file] [-t config-file]

that's it, that's the whole vibe check 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the kea-netconf agent gives the Kea environment a YANG/NETCONF interface 💖 like she's the main character that lets your Kea stuff talk NETCONF, iconic behavior fr fr.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

the arguments are as follows, and yes every single one of them matters 🙈:

  • -v — displays the Kea version. quick little vibe check on which Kea you're running ✨
  • -V — displays the extended Kea version. the deluxe version info, she's giving more detail 💅
  • -W — displays the configuration report. receipts, basically 🧾
  • -d — enables debug mode with extra verbosity. extra. verbosity. she will not stop talking and honestly? we love that 😭
  • -c config-file — specifies the file with the configuration for the NETCONF agent. this is the one, this is her config 🎀
  • -t config-file — checks the syntax of the configuration file and reports the first error, if any. it's a lint pass, a little pre-flight check 🔍
⚠️ okay important caveat bestie, listen up: with -t, not all parameters are completely checked. in particular, service and client sockets are not opened, and hook libraries are not loaded. so it's a syntax check, not a full dress rehearsal 💀 don't let it lie to you.

📚 DOCUMENTATION 📚

Kea comes with an extensive Kea Administrator Reference Manual that covers all aspects of running the Kea software — compilation, installation, configuration, configuration examples, and much more 👑 like genuinely much more, she's thorough.

Kea also features a Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea can print with a brief description for each of them 💖 so when Kea yells at you, you can look up why.

both documents are available in various formats (.txt, .html, .pdf) with the Kea distribution 🦋 and the Kea documentation is available at https://kea.readthedocs.io ✨

Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide, available at https://reports.kea.isc.org/dev_guide/ ⭐

the Kea project website is available at https://kea.isc.org 🌈

💌 MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT 💌

there are two public mailing lists available for the Kea project 🫶

  • kea-users (kea-users at lists.isc.org) — intended for Kea users 💜
  • kea-dev (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) — intended for Kea developers, prospective contributors, and other advanced users 🔥

both lists are available at https://lists.isc.org 🌸 and the community provides best-effort support on both of those lists (read: they're doing their best, be nice 😭).

ISC provides professional support for Kea services. see https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details 💼✨

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

early prototypes of the kea-netconf implementation were written during IETF Hackathons in Berlin, London, and Montreal 🌍✈️ (yes, a world tour, we stan).

the actual production-ready implementation was started in August 2018 by Tomek Mrugalski and Francis Dupont 🎉 absolute icons, no cap 👑

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

kea-dhcp4(8), kea-dhcp6(8), kea-dhcp-ddns(8), kea-ctrl-agent(8), kea-admin(8), keactrl(8), perfdhcp(8), kea-lfc(8), Kea Administrator Reference Manual 💖 go read them, they're all serving.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Internet Systems Consortium 🫶

2019-2025, Internet Systems Consortium 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie, you're welcome 💅✨

signing off with the fine print: this is Kea version 3.0.3, dated Mar 26, 2026, and the source is, of course, Kea 🎀

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