dhcp_leases

Overview

A plugin allowing for importing devices from DHCP.leases files.

Usage

• Specify full paths of all dhcp.leases files you want to import and watch in the DHCPLSS_paths_to_checksetting.
• Map the paths specified in the DHCPLSS_paths_to_checksetting in your docker-compose.yml file.
• If you are using pihole or dnsmasq dhcp.leases, include pihole or dnsmasq into the mapping path respectively, check the below example for details

Example:

docker-compose.yml excerpt:

    volumes:
      ...
      # mapping different dhcp.leases files
      - /first/location/dhcp.leases:/mnt/dhcp1.leases
      - /second/location/dhcp.leases:/mnt/dhcp2.leases      
      - /third/location/dhcp.leases:/etc/pihole/dhcp.leases      # a pihole specific dhcp.leases file 
      - /fourth/location/dhcp.leases:/etc/dnsmasq/dhcp.leases    # a dnsmasq specific dhcp.leases file  
      ...

The DHCPLSS_paths_to_check setting should then contain the following:

DHCPLSS_paths_to_check = ['/mnt/dhcp1.leases','/mnt/dhcp2.leases','/etc/pihole/dhcp.leases','/etc/dnsmasq/dhcp.leases']

Notes

No specific configuration is needed. This plugin supports dhcp.leases file(s) in the following formats:

1. PiHole
2. Dnsmasq
3. Generic format

pihole format

Example File Format: (not all lines are required)

TBC

dnsmasq format

[Lease expiry time] [mac address] [ip address] [hostname] [client id, if known]

Example File Format: (not all lines are required)

1715932537 01:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c 192.168.1.115 ryans-laptop 01:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c

Note, only [mac address] [ip address] [hostname] are captured

Generic format

dhcpd.leases(5) - Linux man page

Example File Format: (not all lines are required)

lease 192.168.79.15 {
  starts 0 2016/08/21 13:25:45;
  ends 0 2016/08/21 19:25:45;
  cltt 0 2016/08/21 13:25:45;
  binding state active;
  next binding state free;
  rewind binding state free;
  hardware ethernet 8c:1a:bf:11:00:ea;
  uid "\001\214\032\277\021\000\352";
  option agent.circuit-id 0:17;
  option agent.remote-id c0:a8:9:5;
  client-hostname "android-8182e21c852776e7";
}