ICMP, SNMP, ASNMP, and IPv6 support
The
IP Manager
uses Internet
Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) to discover IPv4-only, IPv6-only, and dual-stack systems in
the managed network environment. A dual-stack system is configured
with both IPv4 (32-bit) and IPv6 (128-bit) addresses.The
IP Manager
supports IPv4
ICMP (also known as ICMPv4), IPv6 ICMP (also known as ICMPv6), IPv4
SNMP, and IPv6 SNMP. Because many Management Information Bases (MIBs)
have not yet been modified to accommodate IPv6 addresses, certain IP Manager
features are
not available to IPv6.Starting from IP 8.1.1,
IPv6 addresses on a device that are link-local (FE80::), site-local
(FEC0::), multicast (FF00::), or loopback (::1) do not get discovered
and are not added to the topology. For example, a valid link-local
IPv6 address FE80:0:0:0:20F:35FF:FEC1:2400, will not be discovered.
The
IP Manager
also supports SNMPv1, v2c, and v3.The provides information about ICMP, SNMP, and Asynchronous SNMP (ASNMP).
Unless specified otherwise, the term ICMP is used to refer to IPv4
and IPv6 ICMP polling, and the term SNMP is used to refer to IPv4
and IPv6 SNMP polling.