[Nagios-users] IPv6 support

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Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: > Hello! > > How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? > Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job for the various plugins. The nagios-plugins project has had ipv6 sup

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: >> Hello! >> >> How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? >> > > Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS > lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job f

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > That's probably not completely true, because the config files allow you to > specify IP addresses, if so desired. If IPv6 aware, these should, at > least,be > parsed correctly ? > >

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Ok, thanks all for clearing out this! On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:14 +0200, nap wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen > wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson > wrote: > > > That's probably not completely true, beca

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

nap wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen > wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson mailto:a...@op5.se>> wrote: That's probably not completely true, because the config files allow you to specify IP addresses, if so de

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/09/2011 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? >>> >> >> Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. H

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/09/2011 02:45 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > nap wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen > > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson > > wrote: >> >> That's probably not completely true, because th

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson To: Nagios Users List Date: 2011-06-09 18:19 > Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and > that's what you configure. If it's not, you configure ip4 in

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:19:40PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and > that's what you configure. If it's not, you configure ip4 instead. So one will need to configure a dual stack host twice, once for IPv4, and once for IPv6, and re

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/09/2011 09:30 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:19:40PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and >> that's what you configure. If it's not, you configure ip4 instead. > > So one will need to configure a dual stack ho

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/09/2011 08:07 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > Original Message > >> If this patch had been accompanied by something to make conditional >> macros and command_line arguments work, I'd have cheered all the way >> though. > > I don't really get it what you mean - can you expla

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Not really. You can still achieve the exact same functionality with > custom variables. What Michael has done is to make one such custom > variable "official", which breaks the ABI. He still has to use special > plugins to check both ip4 and ip6 addresses at the same time,

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/10/2011 01:26 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Not really. You can still achieve the exact same functionality with >> custom variables. What Michael has done is to make one such custom >> variable "official", which breaks the ABI. He still has to use special >> plugin

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson To: Nagios Users List Date: 2011-06-10 14:09 > > So give _address6 official status *in the ui*. Or make a config item > that lets users specify which custom variables to show in the UI.

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/10/2011 02:31 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 > support From: Andreas Ericsson To: Nagios Users List > Date: 2011-06-10 14:09 >> >> So give _address6 official status *in the ui*. Or make a config &g

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

wow.exe maybe ?! :P Over and out! On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:48 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > On 06/10/2011 02:31 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > > Original Message ---- Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 > > support From: Andreas Ericsson To: Nagios Users List > >

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a ipv6 andress and ping6 that address? On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > On 06/09/2011 08:07 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > > Original Message

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Patrik Båt To: Nagios Users List Date: 2011-06-10 15:03 > Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt > > and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a ipv6 > andress an

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson To: Michael Friedrich Date: 2011-06-10 14:48 >> conclusion - you won't accept such patches, > I won't accept patches that break things when there are easier ways > to achieve

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 2011/06/10, at 07:02, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > You can, but with custom variables. How many "official" addresses should > Nagios support? 3? 5? Soon we'll run into someone who wants more than > that, and then we're left with breaking the ABI again. You don't have to "break" anything if the N

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:02:04PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > In fact, not being able to handle the "more-than-one-IP-per-host" in a > > non-complex way is one of the greatest beefs I have with Nagios (see > > web server, or a host which serves multiple services on different IP > > addresse

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On 06/11/2011 09:51 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:02:04PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >>> In fact, not being able to handle the "more-than-one-IP-per-host" in a >>> non-complex way is one of the greatest beefs I have with Nagios (see >>> web server, or a host which serves mu

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

Or why not use DNS. or /etc/hosts Then its up 2 the plugin setup i guess. On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:03 +0200, Patrik Båt wrote: > Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt > > and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a ipv6 > andress and ping6 that address? > >

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support Or why not use DNS. or /etc/hosts Then its up 2 the plugin setup i guess. On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:03 +0200, Patrik Båt wrote: > Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt > > and a ping.sh that look in this file for