Table Of Contents

Prime Performance Manager and IPv6

IPv6 Support in Prime Performance Manager

Adding SNMP and Telnet/SSH Credentials

Unit Configuration

Device Discovery

Reports

Device Management Actions

Alarms and Events

Clients

Trap Forwarding

Prime Network Integration

Command Line Interface

Prime Performance Manager and IPv6

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The following topics describe Prime Performance Manager IPv6 behavior and configuration practices:

•IPv6 Support in Prime Performance Manager

•Adding SNMP and Telnet/SSH Credentials

•Unit Configuration

•Device Discovery

•Reports

•Device Management Actions

•Alarms and Events

•Clients

•Trap Forwarding

•Prime Network Integration

•Command Line Interface

IPv6 Support in Prime Performance Manager

You cannot use an IPv6 address for the Prime Performance Manager server name or gateway address. This means you cannot install the gateway with the IPv6 address and the web browser can't access the Prime Performance Manager web GUI using an IPv6 address. However, you can configure an IPv6 address in the gateway interface for communication with an IPv6 unit or between the Prime Performance Manager gateway and an IPv6 Prime Network gateway.

When integrating with Prime Network, Prime Network can't be IPv6 only because an IPv4 address is needed to do the cross-launches and send notification from Prime Network to Prime Performance Manager gateway.

Adding SNMP and Telnet/SSH Credentials

Prime Performance Manager can manage both IPv4 and IPv6 devices. The address format complies with the RFC 2732 and RFC 4291. To configure the credentials with wildcard matching, the IPv6 prefix can be used.

Unit Configuration

To allocate the devices to a different unit, you can configure the unit using either an IPv4 or an IPv6 address. The IPv4 CIDR or IPv6 prefix is supported for both IPv4 and IPv6. Always verify that the device is reachable from the Prime Performance Manager unit regardless of whether the device is IPv4 or IPv6.

Device Discovery

Unlike IPv4 device discovery, the IPv6 prefix can't be used for device discovery. To match the IPv6 device for getting the credential used for discovery, the algorithm of longest match is used to find the SNMP or Telnet/SSH credential. If none is found, the default entry,::/0, is used.

For some software versions, the SNMP isn't supported over IPv6. Before applying your IPv6 settings to the device, verify that the software versions support SNMP over IPv6.

Reports

IPv4 and IPv6 devices can be polled by Prime Performance Manager units to generate stats reports. There is no difference in report itself regardless of whether the data is polled by an IPv4 or IPv6 address. For reports related to IP addresses, there is limitation on the device because most of the MIBs required for these reports don't support IPv6 addresses, for example, pseudowires, MPLS TE and VidMon. For reports with MIB data that supports IPv6, only IPSLA reports support the IPv6 in Prime Performance Manager in the current release. More are planned for the future.

Device Management Actions

For device management, you can perform the same actions on IPv6 devices as you can for IPv4 devices. For information about summary list actions, see Editing Summary List Items.

Alarms and Events

Similar as IPv4 device, the alarms or events generated for IPv6 device are also available in Alarm and Event GUI.

Clients

Only IPv4 address can be accessed by web browser to connect Prime Performance Manager gateway even if there is IPv6 address is configured in Prime Performance Manager gateway. This is the same as previous release. The IPv6 access to Prime Performance Manager gateway will be enhanced in next release.

Trap Forwarding

Trap forwarding can be configured in the Prime Performance Manager web GUI. Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported.

Prime Network Integration

Both IPv4 and IPv6 address can be used for Prime Network integration, including inventory import and cross-launch Installation. After installing the cross-launch with a Prime Network IPv6 address, the Prime Performance Manager gateway IPv4 address is used to navigate to the Prime Performance Manager web report from Prime Network. If notifications are sent out from Prime Network to Prime Performance Manager, the IPv4 address is used to connect to the Prime Performance Manager gateway.

Command Line Interface

IPv6 is supported by Prime Performance Manager that have an IP address as a parameter, such as snmpget/snmpwalk and addsnmpcomm, and others.

If you are using ipaccess to control the login access in a Prime Performance Manager gateway, verify that the addresses used by the Prime Performance Manager unit are in this access list. The access list must include both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.