Dualstack monitoring best practice

[Michael Friedrich]

Robert V. Bolton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich 
> <michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at 
> <mailto:michael.friedrich at 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 don't need to add the patch to add an address6 variable, just use 
> a Custom Object Variable 
> <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/customobjectvars.html>. I use 
> to run Nagios with  patch that added the address6 variable, but it 
> ended up screwing me up in the long run.

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.


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