Hi all,
I notice from the archives this was last brought up in August [ http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-August/032217.html] has there been any move forward with IPv6 support in the xymonnet tool? If not are there any timescales/milestones of when this is likely to be implemented?
It is starting to become more prevalent that we monitor our IPv6 infrastructure and I'd rather not have to move lock, stock and barrel to a different monitoring solution.
If it's physical coding that is required to get it up and running then I could certainly take a look at it or see if any of our guys could fill in the missing bits, but some indication of what is needed would be good.
Thanks
Steve
On 22-12-2011 10:49, Steven Carr wrote:
I notice from the archives this was last brought up in August [http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-August/032217.html] has there been any move forward with IPv6 support in the xymonnet tool? If not are there any timescales/milestones of when this is likely to be implemented?
Funny you should ask ...
It is starting to become more prevalent that we monitor our IPv6 infrastructure and I'd rather not have to move lock, stock and barrel to a different monitoring solution.
As I wrote when releasing 4.3.6 and 4.3.7, "Work is now beginning on the 4.4 series, with the focus currently being on IPv6 support."
This is still the main focus for 4.4, and I have been working the past week with constructing a generic communications library that can handle both IPv4 and IPv6. This is almost complete - i.e., it works, but I need to work out a couple of minor bugs - and I'll start re-doing the network I/O pieces of Xymon to use this library instead of each tool carrying it's own bunch of network code.
So there is actual code in the works, and it will definitely be the main feature for 4.4.
A pleasant side-effect of this is that it turned out to be rather easy to implement SSL support as part of this library, in a way that is nearly transparent to the application layer code. That means Xymon 4.4 will also have full support for clients talking to the Xymon server using SSL; I know this is an issue in some environments.
As for when this will be ready ... difficult to say. If all goes well, I expect to have something up and running around February. This is clearly some major surgery on critical parts of Xymon, so it will need some thorough testing - I'll have to run it for some time to make sure the good ol' IPv4 stuff isn't broken, and then we can start testing the IPv6 features.
One problem for me is that I don't have anything running IPv6 at work. I have it at home and can test the basic bits, but I am looking for people who would be willing to test this on a larger scale than one or two hosts. If you would like to help out with that, drop me a note and I'll be happy to send you some early implementations to try out for me.
Regards, Henrik
On 22-12-2011 13:13, Henrik Størner wrote:
On 22-12-2011 10:49, Steven Carr wrote:
I notice from the archives this was last brought up in August [http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-August/032217.html] has there been any move forward with IPv6 support
So there is actual code in the works, and it will definitely be the main feature for 4.4.
It's getting closer ...
henrik at osiris:~/xymon/trunk$ xymon --debug ssl:www.xymon.com:1985 ping 2011-12-29 16:41:51 conn_prepare_connection(4): Will connect to IPv6 2001:16d8:dda8::2:1985 2011-12-29 16:41:51 try_ssl_connect(3): SSL connection established with 2001:16d8:dda8::2:1985 xymond 4.3.7.20111229.ip6ssl 2011-12-29 16:41:51 try_ssl_io(3): Connection closed by peer: 2001:16d8:dda8::2:1985
Regards, Henrik
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On 22-12-2011 13:13, Henrik Størner wrote:
On 22-12-2011 10:49, Steven Carr wrote:
I notice from the archives this was last brought up in August [http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-August/032217.html] has there been any move forward with IPv6 support
So there is actual code in the works, and it will definitely be the main feature for 4.4.
It's getting closer ...
henrik at osiris:~/xymon/trunk$ xymon --debug ssl:www.xymon.com:1985 ping 2011-12-29 16:41:51 conn_prepare_connection(4): Will connect to IPv6 2001:16d8:dda8::2:1985 2011-12-29 16:41:51 try_ssl_connect(3): SSL connection established with 2001:16d8:dda8::2:1985 xymond 4.3.7.20111229.ip6ssl 2011-12-29 16:41:51 try_ssl_io(3): Connection closed by peer: 2001:16d8:dda8::2:1985
sweet!!
Regards, Henrik
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