Argus is a system and network monitoring application, which includes IPv6 support since version 3.2. It will monitor nearly anything it is asked to (TCP and UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It comes with a nice and clean, easy to view web interface that will keep both the managers and the technicians happy. Argus contains built-in alert notification via email and pager (qpage) but is easily extendible to use any other program like i.e. winpopup etc. It will automatically escalate alerts until they are acknowledged by resending the alert at different intervals while optionally switching to other methods of notification or other recipients. Due to the fact that most of the testing modules are written in Perl, IPv6 functionality is included in most of them.
For installation one has to fulfil a few prerequisites to use the program with IPv6. Other than a running an operating system that supports IPv6 one also has to have both the Perl module Socket6.pm and fping6 installed. The standard fping is only IPv4 capable but the fping sources at fping.com can be compiled to either work with IPv4 or use IPv6. One binary only works with one protocol at a time. For configuration there is really nothing IPv6 specific to do. If you specify an IPv6 address or hostname that resolves to an IPv6 address, IPv6 will be used for the test.
For further documentation and downloading the program itself please refer to the project’s homepage
Example implementation in 6NET:
JOIN: https://www.join.uni-muenster.de/cgi-bin/arguscgi?func=login (user:6net password:<any>)