Thanks Henrik,
That is good to hear.
We did find that fping on SuSE Linux Enterprise was an ancient one that did not support IPv6. Even on SLES 11 SP2 it is still fping-2.4b2-94.22. We downloaded and installed fping-2.4b2_to-ipv6 (which is over 10 years old!) in order to support IPv6. I don't know what other distributions provide.
Great work. I look forward to the upcoming release.
regards
johng
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:20:53 +0200
From: Henrik St?rner<user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] IPv6 support in xymon
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On 30-03-2012 11:05, user-78688c9a000f@xymon.invalid wrote:
We are deploying IPv6 across our organisation (spread across
Australia) and use xymon for a lot of our monitoring. We have
scripts which allow xymon to ping hosts via IPv6 to monitor IPv6
connectivity although it is a bit ugly.
I understand that IPv6 support is coming in a later release. I'm
curious whether there is an estimate of when this might come out.
It is actually fairly close. I have IPv6 working on the Xymon server
main daemon (xymond), and the client-side tool (xymon) that communicates
with xymond also supports it. So basic IPv6 support is working.
Support in the xymonnet tool - that runs the network tests - is
underway; it is taking longer than I first expected because I've ended
up writing a completely new network test tool instead of hacking the old
code. The original xymonnet tool was almost 10 years old, and I've
learned a lot about C programming during that time. Also, I wanted to
make network tests be analysed in a manner similar to client data - i.e.
feed it all into the Xymon server, then have a tool analyse and
correlate data centrally. This is currently at a point where the new
"xymonnet2" tool can perform the network tests, also against IPv6
enabled hosts and send the data to Xymon, but I have only started doing
the analysis module.
"ping" tests also haven't been implemented yet, but that should be a
very simple thing to do - it will rely on "fping" for both IPv4 and IPv6
hosts.
I hope to have it finished for release in a few months.
Regards,
Henrik
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