On 30-03-2012 11:05, John.Gibbins at csiro.au 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