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diff --git a/doc/sphinx/arm/dhcp4-srv.rst b/doc/sphinx/arm/dhcp4-srv.rst index 8bfd703740..5d6acad94a 100644 --- a/doc/sphinx/arm/dhcp4-srv.rst +++ b/doc/sphinx/arm/dhcp4-srv.rst @@ -576,6 +576,19 @@ The possible values are: active while processing DHCP traffic. Change this only if the server is used exclusively as a configuration tool. +:: + + "Dhcp4": { "lease-database": { "retry-on-startup" : true, ... }, ... } + +During server startup, the inability to connect to any of the configured +backends is considered fatal only if ``retry-on-startup`` is set to ``false``. +A fatal error is logged and the server exits, based on the idea that the +configuration should be valid at startup. Exiting to the operating system allows +nanny scripts to detect the problem. +If ``retry-on-startup`` is set to ``true``, the server will start reconnection +attempts even at server startup or on reconfigure events, and will honor the +action specified in ``on-fail`` parameter. + The host parameter is used by the MySQL and PostgreSQL backends. Finally, the credentials of the account under which the server will @@ -798,6 +811,19 @@ The possible values are: the lease database backend and the hosts database backend are connected to the same database instance. +:: + + "Dhcp4": { "hosts-database": { "retry-on-startup" : true, ... }, ... } + +During server startup, the inability to connect to any of the configured +backends is considered fatal only if ``retry-on-startup`` is set to ``false``. +A fatal error is logged and the server exits, based on the idea that the +configuration should be valid at startup. Exiting to the operating system allows +nanny scripts to detect the problem. +If ``retry-on-startup`` is set to ``true``, the server will start reconnection +attempts even at server startup or on reconfigure events, and will honor the +action specified in ``on-fail`` parameter. + Finally, the credentials of the account under which the server will access the database should be set: |