[Xymon] Roadmap/GitHub?/IPv6

[Japheth Cleaver]

Hi Christian,

That's actually really great to hear. The current 4.4 alpha would be 
https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/branches/4.x-master/

I'll probably branch that after forward porting these patches coming in 
to 4.3.29, and trying to reduce some of the warnings I'm seeing in 
compiles. In the meantime, any validation from snapshots off that branch 
would be helpful.

Regards,
-jc

On 4/5/2019 4:47 AM, Christian Herzog wrote:
> hey JC,
>
> thanks for the status update. I've done some pretty extensive IPv6 xymon
> testing 6 years ago ([1] and later private emails with Henrik) and found IPv6
> support to be in pretty good shape in then 4.3.99.tgz. However, none of this
> seems to be in 4.3.28.
> Since we're now once again (and for reals this time!) on the verge of
> introducing IPv6 into our networks, I'll have to come back to working on xymon
> IPv6. I'd be happy to do all sorts of testing, but where to start? I can't
> even find any 4.4 (alpha) tree out there.
> Can you advise?
>
> thanks and best regards,
> -Christian
>
>
>
> [1] https://xymon.xymon.narkive.com/BbXHR8kH/status-of-ipv6-support
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:46:52AM -0800, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
>> I think a larger discussion on Xymon's roadmap in terms of Docker and
>> container analysis is definitely something warranted. A host-based approach
>> tends to invite individualized responses to coordination among varying
>> levels of architecture (including both host -> hypervisor, baremetal (eg,
>> DRAC) -> host, and hypervisor "status" reporting), but containers' typically
>> ephemeral nature could merit a distinct reference point -- or not, if it's
>> desired to have them persistently reportable. Host-Svc may or may not make
>> sense there.
>>
>> I tend to agree that a move to Github may be helpful here at this point -
>> athough with the various community issues people have had with GH since MS's
>> purchase, it seems there has been a bit of an outcry, I'm not sure there's
>> much SF will end up being able to capitalize on. It would certainly make
>> PR's easier to coordinate and invite more interaction.
>>
>> The largest stalling point on the roadmap here was indeed the IPv6
>> transition. I think things are releasable in an Alpha state, and that was
>> the intent at the last release, but it's been difficult to find any site
>> using IPv6 at sufficient scale who could help with the testing process.
>> That's a bit of a Catch-22 though, and perhaps it would be best to release
>> an easy reference point for future testing and go from there - along with
>> the various other patches that I've received. (And this does raise the
>> question of what the next highest priorities out there will be.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> -jc
>>
>>
>