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: [ts at bombur ~]$ host galadriel.example.com galadriel.example.com has IPv6 address 2001:db8:f004:8::32 [ts at bombur ~]$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -n -H galadriel.example.com Invalid host name 'galadriel.example.com' [ts at bombur ~]$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -n -H 2001:db8:f004:8::32 Invalid host name '2001:db8:f004:8::32' [ts at bombur ~]$ (With obvious sanitization.) What gives? -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130215/294c6c0e/attachment-0002.sig>
From: Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt at phoenixsoftware.de>> To my dismay I noticed that this doesn't seem to support IPv6: > What gives?Maybe you are right and it does not support IPv6... Try Icinga maybe? https://www.icinga.org/nagios/feature-comparison/ JD
On 2013-02-15, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt at phoenixsoftware.de> 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 >=46rom 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. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us