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Subject:	RE: Monitoring the DHCP Pool
Author:	Michael Rogers
Posted:	2021-06-18 14:58

Hey, Rob!

I did a spot of Googling and managed to find this:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/solutionbase-monitoring-dhcp-server-performance-statistics-in-windows-server-2003/

It specifically calls out Win2k3, but I suspect the counters haven't changed much since then.  It should be easy enough to run a typeperf on the DHCP server to see what counters are exposed by more modern versions of Windows Server.

Based on the article, some promising counters to threshold against might be:

DHCP Server\Nacks/sec
DHCP Server\Conflict Check Queue Length
DHCP Server\Declines/sec

Naturally, you'll want to confirm that those counters are still available 18 years later before you start building thresholds.

I hope this helps!

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Michael J. Rogers
Senior Instructor - Zenoss
Austin TX
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