[Xymon] IPv6 and state of developement

[Francois Claire]

Hello Stephan,



Did you try using IPv6 addresses written without compression :: ?


There was a xymon version 5 project which was supposed to support IPv6 
but I don't know exactly what happened to it:

https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2015-November/042488.html


Anybody has a hint ?


By the way: fixing IPv6 bugs in xymon could be a nice project for a 
university :-)


Francois.


Le 23/06/2020 à 10:11, Krinetzki, Stephan a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> Our university is now moving from IPv4 to IPv6 and we want to continue using Xymon as a monitoring tool, but we are facing some difficulties.
>
> I have now compiled the latest archive version [r8119] from the 4.x-master. The compilation process ran without problems, but there were problems when starting the xymon-client and the xymon-server because of wrongly set variables. Fortunately this was solved, now client and server are running, but neither the server nor the client get correct monitoring data.
>
> With an IPv6 only Xymon server the client reports the following in the logs:
>
> 2020-06-23 10:07:20.222067 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout)
> 2020-06-23 10:07:20.222133 ->
> 2020-06-23 10:07:20.222137 ->  Recipient '2a00:8a60:1:9304::1', timeout -2
> 2020-06-23 10:07:20.222141 ->  1st line: 'extcombo 1100 3484'
>
> The IP of the Client is 2a00:8a60:1:9304::1:5.
>
> So imho there is missing a block. Even the ping Tests doesn't work. Any suggestions, where to look?
>
> The IPv6 addresses are in the normal IPv6 format, in the config file and in the hosts.cfg.
>
> Maybe someone can give me a hint.
>
> The next question: Is there any developing at the moment or should we switch to a better maintained monitoring system?
>
> Regards
>
> Stephan
>
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