# Monitoring DHCP Server and DHCP Relay Agent Statistics

#### Purpose

Display DHCP proxy server statistics

#### Action

To display statistics for the DHCP proxy server:

    host1#show dhcp server statistics
     DHCP Proxy Global Statistics
            Messages from Unknown Servers 0

                       DHCP Proxy Server Statistics
                       ----------------------------
         Statistic          Counts        Counts         Counts
    -------------------   -----------   ----------   --------------
    DHCP Server Address   10.6.128.10   10.10.0.42   192.168.200.10
    Discovers sent        0             0            0
    leases granted        0             0            0
    Offers received       0             0            0
    Requests sent         0             0            0
    Acks received         0             0            0
    Naks received         0             0            0
    addresses declined    0             0            0
    addresses released    0             0            0
    Informs sent          0             0            0
    unknown messages      0             0            0
    bad messages          0             0            0

#### Meaning

Table 123 lists the show dhcp server statistics command output fields

Table 123: show dhcp server statistics Output Fields

Field Name | Field Description
--- | ---
DHCP Server Address | IP address of the server
Discovers sent | Number of discover messages sent by the server
leases granted | Number of leases granted by the server
Offers received | Number of offers sent by the server
Requests sent | Number of requests sent to the server
Acks received | Number of acknowledgments received from the server
Naks received | Number of negative acknowledgments received from the server
addresses declined | Number of IP addresses rejected because they were already in use
addresses released | Number of IP addresses released back to the server
Informs sent | Number of inform messages sent to the server
unknown messages | Number of illegal DHCP messages or messages that cannot be handled by the router
bad messages | Number of messages not recognized as DHCP messages

#### Related Topics

- show dhcp server statistics