IPv6 support

[Michael Friedrich]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support
From: Patrik Båt <pb at osix.eu>
To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users at 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 and get a ipv6
> andress and ping6 that address?

sure that's one of those workarounds. i wouldn't mind dropping it when 
it comes to performance issues (e.g. having a long list in it being 
parsed) resulting in check latencies.
but that#s truly another story.

>
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> On 06/09/2011 08:07 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>
>>>> If this patch had been accompanied by something to make conditional
>>>> macros and command_line arguments work, I'd have cheered all the way
>>>> though.
>>> I don't really get it what you mean - can you explain that a bit more?
>>>
>> Sure. If there was some way to configure Nagios so that certain command
>> arguments were only expanded if the number of arguments to the check
>> matches a certain criteria, one could write checks that don't pass half
>> baked argument strings to the plugins, and the complexity would be
>> handled in one place. That would actually gain something, rather than
>> making "address6" an official variable, which gains nothing compared
>> to using a custom variable, but breaks the abi even so.
>>


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