]> ISC Kea 2017 Mar 8 1.2.0 The Kea software has been written by a number of engineers working for ISC: Tomek Mrugalski, Stephen Morris, Marcin Siodelski, Thomas Markwalder, Francis Dupont, Jeremy C. Reed, Wlodek Wencel and Shawn Routhier. That list is roughly in the chronological order in which the authors made their first contribution. For a complete list of authors and contributors, see AUTHORS file. Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. kea-shell 8 Kea kea-shell Text client for Control Agent process 2016 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") kea-shell DESCRIPTION The kea-shell provides a REST client for the Kea Control Agent (CA). It takes command as a command-line parameter that is being sent to CA with proper JSON encapsulation. Optional parameters may be specified on the standard input. The request it sent of HTTP and a response is retrieved. That response is displayed out on the standard output. ARGUMENTS The arguments are as follows: Displays help regarding command line parameters. Display the version. Specifies the host to connect to. Control Agent must be running at specified host. If not specified, 127.0.0.1 is used. Specifies the TCP port to connect to. Control Agent must be listening at specified port. If not specified, 8000 is used. Specifies the connection timeout in seconds. If not specified, 10 (seconds) is used. Specifies the command to be sent to CA. If not specified, "list-commands" is used. DOCUMENTATION Kea comes with an extensive Kea User's Guide documentation that covers all aspects of running the Kea software - compilation, installation, configuration, configuration examples and many more. Kea also features a Kea Messages Manual, which lists all possible messages Kea can print with a brief description for each of them. Both documents are typically available in various formats (txt, html, pdf) with your Kea distribution. The on-line version is available at http://kea.isc.org/docs/. Kea source code is documented in the Kea Developer's Guide. It's on-line version is available at http://kea.isc.org. Please follow Developer's Guide link. Kea project website is available at: http://kea.isc.org. MAILING LISTS AND SUPPORT There are two mailing lists available for Kea project. kea-users (kea-users at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea users, while kea-dev (kea-dev at lists.isc.org) is intended for Kea developers, prospective contributors and other advanced users. Both lists are available at http://lists.isc.org. The community provides best effort type of support on both of those lists. ISC provides professional support for Kea services. See https://www.isc.org/kea/ for details. HISTORY The kea-shell was first coded in March 2017 by Tomek Mrugalski. SEE ALSO kea-ctrl-agent 8 , kea-dhcp4 8 , kea-dhcp6 8 , kea-dhcp-ddns 8 , kea-admin 8 , keactrl 8 , perfdhcp 8 , kea-lfc 8 , Kea Administrator's Guide.