Is IPv6 Support complied into Debian Package?

[timreeves]

Hi,

I installed 3.0.x as a .deb package from the Zabbix repository, on Debian 8.5.

On IPv4 all is working fine. But I can't find any place to add IPv6 addresses, e.g. to be monitored by Ping.

Am I not looking in the right place, or is Zabbix server in that package compiled without IPv6 support? I saw in a tutorial on compiling from source that IPv6 is a compilation option...

Cheers,

Tim

[Atsushi]

Please check zabbix_server.log.
If the module supports IPv6, it will be output to the log at the time of startup.

ex.

  3046:20160805:110444.981 IPv6 support:              YES

And please check Zabbix logs and check Fping6Location setting in zabbix_server.conf.

[timreeves]

IPv6 support present, do not know how to use it

Thanks @Atsushi,

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf :

Fping6Location=/usr/bin/fping6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31560 Aug  8  2014 /usr/bin/fping6

# grep IPv6 /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log
8545:20160810:091844.664 IPv6 support: YES

SO the package does seem to include IPv6 support.

So I have AGAIN searched the internet for a tutorial on dual-stack monitoring via Zabbix, but I don't find anything that explains it in any clear way, only questions and answers for people with prior knowledge.

A clear question with no answers:

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14325

I found some answers on partial aspects / particular problems beyond where I am standing, but no simple "how to".

All I really want to do is Ping the IPv6 address of a remote host and know that it is available, all the other info I need about services on the remote host are coming via IPv4 and the Zabbix Agent on it.

If I add an IPv6 address below the IPv4 address for a Host at "Agent interfaces", what does this actually DO? Will it affect the targets of already configured Ping tests? Will it break fping (mixed addresses) as some articles suggest?

Context help would be a great addition in the next major version of Zabbix!

Some forum entries seem to suggest that I should make a complete 2nd entry for the same host, giving only the IPv6 address (and not the DNS name, which does have AAAA records but may primarily resolve to IPv4?) - is that the way?

Lost in the wilderness - many thanks for any help!

Tim