Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
On 10.01.2012 10:51, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> >> sure, the patch needs some rework, but when done, it fits, even it won't >> make it upstream due to the change of the objects abi. but for safety >> reasons in upgrading, your solution is better. >> > > We might turn "address" into an array variabl

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 01/09/2012 08:18 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > Robert V. Bolton wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich >> > > wrote: >> >> there's a patch for nagios around, adding address6 as host attribute. >> even if there are custom va

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:23:13AM -0700, Robert V. Bolton wrote: > Hi Flo, > > At work we have started to go dualstack with all of our servers. Currently > our web servers are 100% dualstack so most of our monitoring dualstack > experience is based off of these servers. We have noticed that IPv4

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Robert V. Bolton wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich > > wrote: > > there's a patch for nagios around, adding address6 as host attribute. > even if there are custom variables, it's more intentional for keeping > the system

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Robert V. Bolton
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich < michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > there's a patch for nagios around, adding address6 as host attribute. > even if there are custom variables, it's more intentional for keeping > the systems dualstacked in the future by adding that. > You

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Michael Friedrich wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect >> all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked >> services >> to be the exception. >> >> So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Florian Lohoff wrote: > Hi, > > i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect > all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked > services > to be the exception. > > So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems so odd. I was thinking about addin

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Robert V. Bolton
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > > i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect > all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked > services > to be the exception. > > So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems

[Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked services to be the exception. So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems so odd. I was thinking about adding some _v6address variable to all h