IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Version 8.1

IPv6 configuration

Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus provides support for both IPv4 and IPv6. The components can operate and coexist on a network supporting IPv4 only, IPv6 only, or a dual IPv4 and IPv6 configuration.

The Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus server components operate in IPv6 and IPv4 environments as follows:

The ObjectServer can process events that originate from both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. When the ObjectServer is running on a dual-stacked host, the host name returned to the client in response to a command is the host name of the server that corresponds to the IP version that the client is running. For example, a client running IPv4 receives the IPv4 host name of the ObjectServer, and a client running IPv6 receives the IPv6 host name of the ObjectServer.
In dual IPv4 and IPv6 environments, the unidirectional and bidirectional ObjectServer gateways can listen on both interfaces on the communications socket.
The proxy server can support connections between probes and ObjectServers that are running on IPv4 and IPv6 hosts.
In dual IPv4 and IPv6 environments, the process agent can listen on both interfaces on the communications socket.

The following IPv6 address formats are supported:

Eight groups of four hexadecimal characters, separated by colons; for example, ABCD:EF01:2345:6789:ABCD:EF01:2345:6789
Where all 16 bits are zero, the segment can be replaced with a colon (:).
For example, the address 1010:0000:0000:0000:ABCD:EF01:2345:6789 can be written as 1010::ABCD:EF01:2345:6789.
IPv4 addresses can be represented as IPv6 addresses. For example:
- 0:0:0:0:0:0:192.101.50.5
- 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:103.27.35.8
  These addresses can also be represented as:
- ::192.101.50.5
- ::FFFF:103.27.35.8

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