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Creating an IPv6 Discovery Profile | Getting Started
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 93
Creating an IPv6 Discovery Profile
The OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) system functions independently of the underlying
IP protocol communication, so you can expect the OMNM application behavior to be the same
regardless of whether resource management is through IPv4 or IPv6.
The following conditions indicate how to use such IP addresses in OpenManage Network Manager:
• When the blue
4/6 icon appears to the right of the IP address field means both IPv4 and IPv6
addresses are acceptable. When no icon appears, then only IPv4 addresses work.
• When a blue
6 icon appears, then only IPv6 addresses work. Notice that IPv6 does not support
capital letters; lower case only.
• If a field supports IPV4/V6 and you enter something like
::ffff:192.2.2.2 then
OpenManage Network Manager converts it to a standard address format after you tab off the
field, perhaps adding some zeroes you did not enter.
IP v6 support exists for the following:
• Discovery—IPv6 Discovery profiles support single IPv6 entries, not IPv6 ranges and subnets.
OpenManage Network Manager discovers devices configured to have an IPv6 management
interface. If you discover a device with an IPv6 management interface, the discovery data
collected on its ports and interfaces defaults to IPV4 if both IPv6 and IPv4 are configured on
the same port or interface.
NOTE:
The ability to exclude a specific IP address on discovery profiles is limited to IPv4 only. IPv6 discovery at
this time does not support ranges or subnets so exclusion is not necessary.
• Filters/Filtering/Target selection by IP address
• Editing the device management interface for IPv4 or IPv6
• Network tool portlet includes support IPv4 and IPv6
• Alarms, inventory reports, and other screens support IPv6 too.
CAUTION:
If you have a distributed installation, inter-server communication must be IPv4. Also: IPv6 is enabled by
default. Add the following property to the owareapps/installprops/install.properties file to disable IPv6:
discovery.supports.ipv6=false
The following features are not supported:
• You cannot install to an IPv6 server.
• Distributed installations must communicate with IPv4