Jen Kea DHCP Management Console vs teemIP

Jen Kea DHCP Management Console is a free, GPL v3 web interface for managing ISC Kea DHCP Server. Operators can manage leases, reservations, subnets, and infrastructure from a browser, while the dashboard shows subnet utilization, lease activity, server status, HA state, and alerts. Lease tools include filtering active leases, releasing them, cleaning stale leases, converting dynamic leases to reservations, and CSV import or export. Subnet and pool edits are applied over SSH after Kea validation, a host-side backup, multi-server preflight, and rollback protection. Optional IPv6 support covers leases, devices, reservations, subnet pools, timers, and metrics. Alert channels include Pushover, Telegram, Slack, ntfy, Discord, email, and generic webhooks; optional plugins add network discovery, IPAM Lite, local DNS synchronization, and other functions. Jen connects through the Control Agent or direct daemon sockets, uses MySQL or MariaDB for Kea data, and uses SSH for configuration and service operations. The recommended guided installer runs on Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04, and Docker deployment is also supported. The project targets homelab-to-small-business operators managing a handful of servers, not large fleets.

teemIP is an open-source IP address management solution for mapping, planning, and auditing an organization’s address plan. It manages IPv4 and IPv6 with DNS, DHCP, and NAT, and connects addresses to configuration items such as devices, services, sites, DNS records, reservations, and change requests. Teams can inspect subnet details in a hierarchical IP tree and handle address requests through tickets with assignment, tracking, and history. Role-based access control and logging support traceability for changes. A documented REST API and connectors integrate it with tools including iTop, GLPI, Jira, Centreon, Zabbix, Nagios, Lansweeper, AD/LDAP, VMware, Proxmox, Grafana, and Power BI. teemIP can be hosted on-premises or on sovereign cloud providers. The maker positions it as an inventory and network-mapping aid for NIS2 compliance. Community is free; Standard costs €500 a year, billed annually, with an annual commitment. Advanced active DNS/DHCP, high availability, and DNS security needs require scope validation.