14.1 Overview of the NNMi IPv6 management feature

The NNMi IPv6 management feature provides the following:

• IPv6 inventory discovery for IPv6-only and dual-stacked devices

  • IPv6 addresses

  • IPv6 subnets

  • Associations between IPv6 addresses, subnets, interfaces, and nodes

• Native IPv6 SNMP communication for the following:

  • Node discovery

  • Interface monitoring

  • Trap and inform reception and forwarding

• Automatic selection of IPv4 or IPv6 communication (management addresses) for dual-stacked devices

  On the NNMi console, use Communication Configuration in the Configuration workspace to set the SNMP management address preference to IPv4 or IPv6.

• Native ICMPv6 communication for IPv6 Address fault monitoring

• Seeded device discovery using an IPv6 address or host name

• Automatic IPv6 device discovery using IPv6 Layer 3 neighbor discovery hints

• Automatic IPv6 device discovery using Layer 2 neighbor discovery hints using Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IPv6 neighbor information

• Consolidated presentation of IPv4 and IPv6 information

  • Inventory views for nodes, interfaces, addresses, subnets, and associations

  • Layer 2 Neighbor View and Topology Maps for IPv4 and IPv6 devices

  • Layer 3 Neighbor View and Topology Maps for IPv4 and IPv6 devices

  • Incidents, conclusions, root-cause analysis

• NNMi console actions: ping and traceroute for IPv6 addresses and nodes

• NNMi configuration using IPv6 addresses and address ranges

  • Communication configuration

  • Discovery configuration

  • Monitoring configuration

  • Node & Interface Groups

  • Incident configuration

• DTK Web-services support for IPv6 inventory and incidents

The NNMi IPv6 management feature excludes the following:

• Discovery of IPv6 subnet connections

• Use of IPv6 Ping sweep for discovery

• IPv6 Network Path View (Smart Path)

• IPv6 Link Local Address fault monitoring

• Using IPv6 Link Local Addresses as discovery seeds

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