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
John Gibbins Team Leader - IT Security/Authentication (and IPv6 Evangelist) CSIRO Information Management & Technology (IM&T) Phone: +61 2 6124 1419 | Fax: +61 2 6124 1414 | Mob: 0419 605 562 John.Gibbins at csiro.au | www.csiro.au PO BOX 225, Dickson ACT 2602 The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Clarke's Second Law
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:20:53 +0200 From: Henrik St?rner <henrik at hswn.dk> To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] IPv6 support in xymon Message-ID: <4F7623B5.70909 at hswn.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
End of Xymon Digest, Vol 14, Issue 27
(Apologies if this is old news) the fping development is continued by David Schweikert as the old maintainer(s)/developer were not reachable any more. First tests with v3.0 confirm that the performance is far better than the previous v2.4 (in fact in my test-setup it was 40-45% faster).
All the best Thomas
On 04/01/2012 05:19 AM, John.Gibbins at csiro.au wrote:
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
John Gibbins Team Leader - IT Security/Authentication (and IPv6 Evangelist) CSIRO Information Management& Technology (IM&T) Phone: +61 2 6124 1419 | Fax: +61 2 6124 1414 | Mob: 0419 605 562 John.Gibbins at csiro.au | www.csiro.au PO BOX 225, Dickson ACT 2602 The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Clarke's Second Law
-----Original Message-----
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:20:53 +0200 From: Henrik St?rner<henrik at hswn.dk> To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] IPv6 support in xymon Message-ID:<4F7623B5.70909 at hswn.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
End of Xymon Digest, Vol 14, Issue 27
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Hi Thomas,
On 01-04-2012 10:09, Thomas Eckert wrote:
(Apologies if this is old news) the fping development is continued by David Schweikert as the old maintainer(s)/developer were not reachable any more. First tests with v3.0 confirm that the performance is far better than the previous v2.4 (in fact in my test-setup it was 40-45% faster).
thanks - I didn't know that. It is good to see that this tool is now being maintained, and the speedup looks very interesting for my large Xymon installation. I'll definitely have to check that out!
Regards, Henrik
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henrik＠hswn.dk
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John.Gibbins＠csiro.au
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thomas.eckert＠IT-Eckert.de