Kea PerfMon Hooks Library

Introduction

Welcome to Kea PerfMon Hooks Library. This documentation is addressed to developers who are interested in the internal operation of the PerfMon library. This file provides information needed to understand and perhaps extend this library.

This documentation is stand-alone: you should have read and understood the Kea Developer's Guide and in particular its section about hooks.

PerfMon Overview

PerfMon (or perfmon) is a Hook library that can be loaded by either kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers to extend them with the ability to track and report performance related data.

The initial purpose of this library is to provide supplemental data and commands for monitoring the performance of kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers in real time.

 THIS LIBRARY IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Multi-Threading Compatibility

The PerfMon Hook library is compatible with multi-threading.