Monitoring and IPv6 interact with each other in a number of ways far from obvious. After a quick review of IPv6 from the monitoring perspective, these questions are addressed:
How do monitoring systems use IPv6 for communications between servers and agents? Why can't Ssh entirely hide IPv6 from monitoring tools like Nagios?
What additional services do we have to monitor in an IPv6 environment? How are existing services affected once IPv6 is enabled, and how do we have to update our monitoring configurations? Which plugins may need an update?
How can we support IPv6 in an existing environment if we don't want to move the running monitoring setup out of its IPv4-only environment? What are our options with regard to protocol-translating proxies and how do they compare to each other?
Finally, IPv6 offers a number of features that may be useful for new monitoring tool developments---it isn't all just extra work. The talk closes with a few thoughts on what IPv6 has to offer with regard to monitoring.
| Benedikt StockebrandBenedikt Stockebrand is a "Diplom-Informatiker" who works as a freelance consultant, trainer and author. Since 2003 his primary subject is the use of IPv6 in production grade environments. He is the author of "IPv6 in Practice---A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet" (Springer 2007). |
