16.1 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:
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