IPv6: Cacti & Spine
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IPv6: Cacti & Spine
I have searched through the forums, as well as cacti documents, road map and beta SVN, but I was unable to find any news about implementing IPv6 support. Therefore I have 2 requests / questions.
1.) It is possible to query SNMP devices via IPv6 using udp6: prefix, and there is half done IPv6 ping support in lib/ping.php, however Spine's ping sticks to IPv4. Is there a plan to implement IPv6 ICMP/TCP/UDP ping into Spine?
2.) Is there a plan to implement "dual-stack" to Cacti, i.e. adding hostname6 field so you could add IPv4 and IPv6 IP to a single device, making SNMP queries possible via any of the 2 available L3 connections as well as detecting device availability via IPv4 and/or IPv6?
I'd be glad to hear any official word on this
Regards,
P
1.) It is possible to query SNMP devices via IPv6 using udp6: prefix, and there is half done IPv6 ping support in lib/ping.php, however Spine's ping sticks to IPv4. Is there a plan to implement IPv6 ICMP/TCP/UDP ping into Spine?
2.) Is there a plan to implement "dual-stack" to Cacti, i.e. adding hostname6 field so you could add IPv4 and IPv6 IP to a single device, making SNMP queries possible via any of the 2 available L3 connections as well as detecting device availability via IPv4 and/or IPv6?
I'd be glad to hear any official word on this
Regards,
P
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Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
From my memories I must admit that I don't remember such an item.
But hey, it's open source. So you may not even add a feature request only but provide code snippets as well. And yes, these days it seems quite a must to support IPV6
R.
But hey, it's open source. So you may not even add a feature request only but provide code snippets as well. And yes, these days it seems quite a must to support IPV6
R.
Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
Has there been any progress on this? Is anyone already working to add ipv6 compatibility?
If not, I might need to add it in myself, some time in the next 2-3 months, but would rather not duplicate work if someone's already making magic.
If not, I might need to add it in myself, some time in the next 2-3 months, but would rather not duplicate work if someone's already making magic.
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Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
Is there any news on this issue?
Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
I'm working on getting TheWitness hired on as a contractor in the next few months. Not entirely sure that's going to get pushed through. If not, I'll be implementing it myself. 3-6 months, though I hope it's on the 3 month end. It's not a whole lot of work, but finding time to do it is difficult.recep519 wrote:Is there any news on this issue?
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Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I do not have that much time because I am an intern in my school and I am given a task for monitoring the ipv6..gninja wrote:I'm working on getting TheWitness hired on as a contractor in the next few months. Not entirely sure that's going to get pushed through. If not, I'll be implementing it myself. 3-6 months, though I hope it's on the 3 month end. It's not a whole lot of work, but finding time to do it is difficult.recep519 wrote:Is there any news on this issue?
Do you know any tool to monitor ipv6? thanks..
Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
What are your specific requirements? Nagios and most of the core plugins have ipv6 (./configure --with-ipv6) support. There is limited graphing available via Nagios, but if you need to monitor availability of ipv6-only resources, it'll do the job.recep519 wrote:Do you know any tool to monitor ipv6? thanks..
It's a hell of a job for an intern, I wish you luck. You're welcome to send me PMs with any specific questions you might have, and I can try to point you in the right direction.
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Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
To be honest, it shouldn't be much effort to enable IPv6 support in Spine or cmd.php.
My only concern is what level of Net-SNMP libs you need to enable it and enforce that in the configure script.
My only concern is what level of Net-SNMP libs you need to enable it and enforce that in the configure script.
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Re: IPv6: Cacti & Spine
Not much effort, but I've got a boat-load of projects on my plate at work, and a 9 month old baby. Finding time for "Not much effort" is a lot of effort. I suspect anyone else who's interested in actually doing the work has a similar work-load.rony wrote:To be honest, it shouldn't be much effort to enable IPv6 support in Spine or cmd.php.
My only concern is what level of Net-SNMP libs you need to enable it and enforce that in the configure script.
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cacti-0.8.7i, spine 0.8.7i, PIA 3.1+boost 5.1
MySQL 5.5/InnoDB
RRDtool 1.2.27, PHP 5.1.6
cacti-0.8.7i, spine 0.8.7i, PIA 3.1+boost 5.1
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