IPv6 support

[Michael Friedrich]

nap wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen <mark.elsen at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mark.elsen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se
>     <mailto:ae at 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 least,be
>     parsed correctly ?
>
> Hi,
>
> In fact no. Like Andreas said, Nagios do not even understand what an 
> IP is. It's just a string for it to be pass to plugins as a macro 
> (still a string). It will not parse it.

But it's good to have another address6 attribute in the host object in 
order to assign 2 addresses, use them via macros and not to depend on 
custom variables.

the patch on nagios exchange applies rather clean to nagios upstream. 
i've tried that myself whilst patching it into icinga, whereas the ipv6 
support is happening thanks to that patch, with some slight enhancements 
to classicui and idoutils, but breaking the abi for other modules using 
host objects. but i can live with that, having the possibility of easy 
to use dualstacked monitoring like described here in the common ipv6 
approach: 
https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Dualstack+%28IPv4%2C+IPv6%29+monitoring+with+Icinga

kind regards,
michael

>
>
> Jean
>
>     M.
>
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