Today many network vendors (6WIND, CISCO, HITACHI, JUNIPER etc.) support SNMP over IPv6 and can be monitored in an IPv6-only environment. One could note that equipment not supporting SNMP over IPv6 can be managed over IPv4 as most IPv6 networks are running dual stack.

The number of SNMP applications able to poll remote SNMP agents over IPv6 remains low. Most of the tools today use the netSNMP open source SNMP library. Recently however, some integrated management platforms (HP Openview, Ciscoworks 2000) have also become, or are in the process of becoming, IPv6 capable and serious progress has been made towards the support of SNMP functions,even if the transport remains IPv4 in most cases.