Feature Description

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 address) for dual-stacked devices. Use the NNMi console to set the SNMP management address preference to IPv4 or IPv6 using Communication Configuration located in the Configuration workspace.
• Native ICMPv6 communication for IPv6 Address fault monitoring.
• Seeded device discovery using an IPv6 address or hostname
• Automatic IPv6 device discovery using IPv6 Layer 3 neighbor discovery hints
• Automatic IPv6 device discovery using layer 2 neighbor discovery hints using LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) 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
• SDK Web-services support for IPv6 inventory and incidents
• NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics support for IPv6 interfaces

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