The following BMC Atrium Orchestrator base adapters support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for directing internet traffic and for routing:
The IPv6 support applies to Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. The preceding adapters support both an IPv6 address with a zone identifier (zone ID) and a string literal representation of an IPv6 address. To use an IPv6 address in an adapter request, you must include the zone ID of the peer or the computer on which the adapter is enabled. A zone ID specifies the zone of the destination for the ICMPv6 Echo Request messages. For details about zone IDs, see Zone IDs for an IPv6 addresses.
Windows 7 and Windows 2008 operating systems are IPv6-enabled by default. You can switch off IPv6 on these systems, but you cannot uninstall it. Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems require you to install IPv6. For instructions, see IPv6 installation. For detailed information about installing and configuring IPv6 on a particular operating system, see the documentation for that operating system.
The following figure is an example of the SFTP adapter request XML with an IPv6 address specified for the <host>
element:
XML sample of the SFTP adapter request with an IPv6 address specified for <host>
<sftp-request> <prompts> <prompt>$</prompt> </prompts> <targets> <target> <host>fe80::20c:29ff:fe5d:38f0%eth0</host> <user-name>name</user-name> <password>pwd</password> <prompt>$</prompt> <allow-unknown-hosts>true</allow-unknown-hosts> </target> </targets> <commands><pwd/></commands> </sftp-request>
The following figure illustrates an XML sample of the SFTP adapter response with an IPv6 address specified for the<host>
element.
XML sample of the SFTP adapter response with an IPv6 address specified for <host>
<sftp-command-output> <response-metadata> <status>success</status> </response-metadata> <targets-output> <target-output host="fe80::20c:29ff:fe5d:38f0%eth0"> <target-metadata> <status>success</status> </target-metadata> <commands-output> <command-output> <metadata> <id>1</id> <command>pwd</command> <execution-milliseconds>1</execution-milliseconds> <status>success</status> </metadata> <output> <directory>/home/name</directory> </output> </command-output> </commands-output> </target-output> </targets-output> </sftp-command-output>
You can install IPv6 on Windows by using the following methods:
Using the command prompt
At the command prompt, enter netsh interface ipv6 install.
Using the GUI
The IPv6 protocol for a Windows server includes an IPv6-capable Ping.exe tool. When you use the Ping.exe tool to send an ICMPv6 Echo Request message to a specified destination, the tool displays the round-trip time statistics on the corresponding Echo Reply messages.
To ping a computer with an IPv6 address, use the following ping syntax at the command prompt: ping <IPv6Address>[baob201301:%<zoneID>]
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