Question

A network administrator is receiving reports of intermittent connectivity from several workstations that have been manually assigned static addresses. The administrator suspects address conflicts with the DHCP scope. Which tool or practice would BEST help the team prevent these conflicts going forward?

Accepted Answer

Deploy an IP address management (IPAM) system to centrally track allocated, reserved, and available addresses

Answer

Increase the DHCP lease duration so addresses are held longer before reuse

Answer

Configure syslog on all switches to capture interface up/down events

Answer

Shorten the SNMP polling interval to detect device outages faster