[Xymon] IPv6 support in xymon

[Thomas Eckert]

(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).

http://fping.org/

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
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> -----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
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> 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
>
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