Dashboard widget for DHCP Leases
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I'm a new user of 2.3.4-RELEASE, and find myself often going through the main dashboard for most of what I need to see at a glance, followed by Status -> DHCP Leases to get the rest of what I need to see. :-)
Is there a widget somewhere which would put the leases on the dashboard page? Doesn't have to be the full row of info and editing actions, just a subset would probably be enough for me. The available widgets in the basic 2.3.4 doesn't include such a thing (there's a "Services Status" but that only shows whether DHCP is running, not the leases). I know there are install-able addon packages, but none of the ones on the built-in list seem to do this either…. unless I'm misusing the package manager UI. (Are there other third-party package repositories for pfsense?)
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Widgets aught to refresh regularly.
Showing the DHCP leases means parsing to whole list, to distillate only a line per device would be …. useless.
First : leases do not change every minute or so - more like every hour or every day. You'll wind up with pretty static info.
Second : one systems with big lease pools it would be an "interface-killer" to refresh the widget info ....Btw : the info is one click away ;)
Explain : Why dhcp leases on the front page ? (and why not the IPv6 equivalents ?? - much more important these days ...)
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Widgets aught to refresh regularly.
They certainly ought to. Not convinced though that they aught to.
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Showing the DHCP leases means parsing to whole list, to distillate only a line per device would be …. useless.
The standard lease list only shows a single line per device already. I don't need some of the columns, but the distillation is clearly useful now or it wouldn't be there.
First : leases do not change every minute or so - more like every hour or every day. You'll wind up with pretty static info.
Second : one systems with big lease pools it would be an "interface-killer" to refresh the widget info ….It's not a typical use case, which is why I didn't want to write out all the irrelevant background.
This is a very specialized network with experimental devices. In real deployment the devices don't use DHCP, but for a certain class of testing, DHCP is the kind of traffic we want, and the leases are quite short as a side effect. But we have to keep an eye on them.
(I'm also planning on setting up or buying a pfsense box for my home network. Obviously typical DHCP there, and no need for this kind of thing.)
Btw : the info is one click away ;)
I know. As I wrote, I'm clicking on it, over and over and over…
Anyhow, it would have saved some effort, but obviously not essential feature. Thanks.
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Do you want to see the leases or the number of leases in your pool, used, etc?
If you just want to see the number of lease used/available you can use the monitoring graphs and set the update interval on it to say 1 minute. I don't think dhcp leases are graphed out of the box - you have to enable that feature with checkbox on your dhcp tab.
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Hi there guys.
There is a working widget for this if this is what you are wanting.
1 kind member had previously done work on it here and it was just updated yesterday by another kind member.https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=97823.0
Just follow the thread and it should all work out for you guys too!
Cheers.
