Network Management

How to enable dynamic IP address (DHCP or BOOTP) for multiple nodes for certain subnet for SolarWinds Platform

This article describes how to enable dynamic IP address (DHCP or BOOTP) to multiple nodes on the same subnet. The existing Dynamic IP Address feature is not available when editing more than one node.

First published date

11/1/2018 7:37 PM

Last published date

2/11/2025 8:58 PM

Overview

This article describes how to enable dynamic IP address (DHCP or BOOTP) to multiple nodes on the same subnet. The existing dynamic IP Address feature is not available when editing more than one node.

Product section

Network Performance Monitor

Resolution

Open the Database Manager and run the following query:

Note: This example uses 10.199.6.0/24 subnet as an example. Change the IP address depending on the environment.

update nodes set dynamicip = 'true' where IP_Address like '10.199.6.%'

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