There are three different "views" available. Use the View menu to activate them.
You can have multiple Views open at the same time and they can be resized with the mouse or using the "Window" menu.
Performance Graph
Shows a graph of the number of requests received per second during the last minute.
Active Log
Shows current log activity.
The level of detail and number of lines displayed can be customized through the Options dialog.
See How to read the log.
If the log windows is scrolling too fast or you need to copy text from the log, use the "Active Log Snapshot" function from the Tools menu (or press F9).
Please note that the Active Log does use a considerable amount of resources, so on a busy server we recommend closing View when not required.
DHCP Leases
Shows all active DHCP leases with each computer's name, IP-address, Hardware address, and when its lease expires.
The columns can be sorted by clicking the column headers.
To manually delete a DHCP lease, right click on the lease and select "Delete" from the pop-up menu. In order to prevent IP-address conflicts (two or more computers having the same address), it is very important that the computer for the deleted lease is also rebooted or removed from the network.
Generally, it is not necessary to delete leases manually, as computers automatically release their leases when shut down properly.
Older Apple/Mac clients and other devices which do not supply a computer name in the DHCP request will show with their hardware address as the name.
To rename these, right click on the lease and select "Rename". The new name will be associated with the client's hardware address, and remembered as long as you run Simple DNS Plus even if the IP address changes.
