[Xymon] IPv6 support in xymon

[Henrik Størner]

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