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 michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at mailto:michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at wrote: there's a patch for nagios around, adding address6 as host attribute. even if

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 variable later. I'm

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 f...@zz.de 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

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 adding some

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 so odd. I was

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
Robert V. Bolton wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at mailto: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

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