Re: Nagios NRPE IPv6

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Am 17.02.2013 14:23, schrieb Tilman Schmidt:
> Am 15.02.2013 19:27, schrieb Keith Keller:
>> On 2013-02-15, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On my network management server I have
>>>
>>> Name        : nagios-plugins-nrpe
>>> Arch        : x86_64
>>> Version     : 2.13
>>> Release     : 1.el6
>>> Size        : 38 k
>>> Repo        : installed
>>>  From repo   : epel
>>>
>>> To my dismay I noticed that this doesn't seem to support IPv6:
>> Since it comes from EPEL, you might have better luck asking them what
>> the issue is.  But a quick web search turns up that NRPE may not
>> natively support IPv6, so you may need to jump through extra hoops in
>> order to provide it.
> Sorry I didn't clarify the research I had already done:
>
> - The non-support of IPv6 in the NRPE plugin is indeed a flaw
>    in the Nagios source. It's not just a question of rebuilding
>    with --with-ipv6 or something like that.
>
> - There seem to have been several efforts to fix that.
>
> - There's a patch floating around in the Debian universe which
>    is said to add the missing IPv6 support to the Nagios NRPE
>    plugin, but also reported to have some flaws. See
>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484575
>
> - There's an effort titled NRPE "3.0" which looks promising
>    but hasn't shown any activity for two years, so it's unclear
>    to me whether it's fit for production use. See
>    https://github.com/KristianLyng/nrpe
>
> - Icinga also has a NRPE plugin which is reported to
>    (a) support IPv6 and (b) work with Nagios as well.
>
> The aim of my question was to hear how others are dealing with
> that situation. Is there someone who has successfully applied the
> Debian patch, deployed Kritian Lyng's 3.0 version of NRPE, or
> used Icinga's check_nrpe with Nagios on CentOS? Are there other
> approaches? Which one appears the most sensible? Or is there just
> nobody using Nagios on CentOS in an IPv6 enabled network?
>
> aTdHvAaNnKcSe
> Tilman
>
>
>
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I would just switch to icinga.
You can use ALL your configs and scripts you made for nagios so the 
"migration" isn't really a problem.
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