Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-13 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/11/2011 09:51 AM, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:02:04PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: In fact, not being able to handle the more-than-one-IP-per-host in a non-complex way is one of the greatest beefs I have with Nagios (see web server, or a host which serves multiple

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-13 Thread Patrik Båt
Or why not use DNS. or /etc/hosts Then its up 2 the plugin setup i guess. On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:03 +0200, Patrik Båt wrote: Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a ipv6 andress and ping6 that address? On

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-13 Thread Kevin Keane
To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support Or why not use DNS. or /etc/hosts Then its up 2 the plugin setup i guess. On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:03 +0200, Patrik Båt wrote: Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:02:04PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: In fact, not being able to handle the more-than-one-IP-per-host in a non-complex way is one of the greatest beefs I have with Nagios (see web server, or a host which serves multiple services on different IP addresses).

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/09/2011 09:30 PM, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:19:40PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and that's what you configure. If it's not, you configure ip4 instead. So one will need to configure a dual stack host

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Andreas Ericsson wrote: Not really. You can still achieve the exact same functionality with custom variables. What Michael has done is to make one such custom variable official, which breaks the ABI. He still has to use special plugins to check both ip4 and ip6 addresses at the same time,

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/10/2011 01:26 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Andreas Ericsson wrote: Not really. You can still achieve the exact same functionality with custom variables. What Michael has done is to make one such custom variable official, which breaks the ABI. He still has to use special plugins to check

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-10 14:09 So give _address6 official status *in the ui*. Or make a config item that lets users specify which

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/10/2011 02:31 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-10 14:09 So give _address6 official status *in the ui

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Patrik Båt
and out! On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:48 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: On 06/10/2011 02:31 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Patrik Båt
Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a ipv6 andress and ping6 that address? On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:07 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Original Message

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Patrik Båt p...@osix.eu To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-10 15:03 Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at Date: 2011-06-10 14:48 conclusion - you won't accept such patches, I won't accept patches that break things when there are easier

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2011/06/10, at 07:02, Andreas Ericsson wrote: You can, but with custom variables. How many official addresses should Nagios support? 3? 5? Soon we'll run into someone who wants more than that, and then we're left with breaking the ABI again. You don't have to break anything if the Nagios

[Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Patrik Båt
Hello! How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: Hello! How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job for the various plugins. The nagios-plugins project has had ipv6

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Elsen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: Hello! How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread nap
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: That's probably not completely true, because the config files allow you to specify IP addresses, if so desired. If IPv6 aware, these should, at

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Patrik Båt
Ok, thanks all for clearing out this! On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:14 +0200, nap wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: That's probably

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
nap wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se mailto:a...@op5.se wrote: That's probably not completely true, because the config files allow you to

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/09/2011 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericssona...@op5.se wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: Hello! How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/09/2011 02:45 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: nap wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se mailto:a...@op5.se wrote: That's probably not completely

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-09 18:19 Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and that's what you configure. If it's

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:19:40PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and that's what you configure. If it's not, you configure ip4 instead. So one will need to configure a dual stack host twice, once for IPv4, and once for IPv6, and