Dualstack monitoring best practice

Michael Friedrich michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at
Mon Jan 9 19:33:35 CET 2012


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 thinking about adding
>> some _v6address variable to all host definitions and defining v6 services using
>> host HOSTADDRESS but _HOSTV6ADDRESS.
> 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.
>> In the end it would even be more natural to check_ping to check both address families
>> if available and go to CRITICAL if one of them fails. In the end v6 should be a equivalent
>> member of the family.
>>
>> Whats the preferred way people have chosen and what where the pitfalls?
> i prefer check_multi, adding 2 checks, one ipv6, one ipv6 and combining

should get more coffee - i meant one for ipv4 and one for ipv6 ... we 
would be lucky if we could just drop ipv4.

> the check result based on the expected output and state. some might have
> ipv6 testing only, but some are depending on a real dualstacked
> environment, so it's decision based then what overall status can be
> returned to the host. check_multi is rather easy to configure and extend
> and works well with pnp4nagios for some nice graphs too.
>
>> Flo
>>
>>
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