Stream of Ry

This is a very rough review based solely on screenshots and documentation from the Debian help site.
The functionalities that we’re looking for are the following:

• Ease of use for helpdesk and end-user
• Check for existing DHCP leases
• Release / Renew existing DHCP leases

Sauron
From the site:

Sauron is a scalable system for management of DNS & DHCP services. Sauron is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and includes the following major features:

• Able to manage DNS & DHCP services for multiple servers (enterprises).
• Dynamically generates complete DNS & DHCP configurations from a central SQL-database.
• Automatic generation of DNS “reverse” zones, with support for smaller than C-class reverse delegations.
• Web interface with user & group based access controls.
• Command-line interface for administrators.

Comments:

• As of the manual page found here, majority of the functionalities is done through CLI (which isn’t what we’re looking for)
• There’s very little movement over at its mailing list and I’ve seen a couple of questions unanswered. Pretty difficult to look for support should this be deployed in a corporate environment.
• UI wise, it could be better. (Though that’s easily editable, but that is some extra more work with the CSS.)
• Functionality wise, it has the search host but I’m not sure if it has the release/renew clients. At least, I could not find the said functionality in the documentation and/or screenshots.

Dixie

Comments:

• Last update to the project was in 2006 (4 years ago!), the forums are down and there are no other details about functionality so definitely not this one.

dhcptool

Comments:

• Last update to the project was in 2002. I think this project is dead.

WebDHCP

Comments:

• Last update to the project was in 2001. I think this project is also dead.
• But the screenshots looks like this is the simplest we could have.

Maintain

Maintain is a multi-user, web based management tool for DNS and DHCP. Maintain is entirely written using PHP and a MySQL database backend.

Comments:

• A demo page is always good. :3
• However, it seems like Maintain leans more towards DNS management rather than DHCP as I can’t find a straightforward approach in maintaining DHCP leases in the demo.
• The project has very good documentation but the forums are a bit dormant. Latest post was 7 weeks ago (at the time of this writing) there was no reply.

WebDhcpDns

Comments:

• The screenshots are in French (and I reckon the default installation is also in French)
• There’s no documentation to speak of, though judging from the screenshots, it may be what we need.

DHCPDman

Comments:

• Though this is not web-based, looks like our best bet on what we’re looking for.  We may have some trouble with remote administration though.
• The only other caveat is that the last update to this project was in 2004 and though the software looks mature, lack of support and security updates makes it a bit uneasy to use.

Anyone have any suggestion for any GUI/Web-based DHCP management tool?