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IPv6 support

Products

Webtrends Analytics 9.x

Cause

The bulletpoints below outline our current collection and analysis stances for IPv6 traffic in our OnPremesis solution.

Note: The details below are based on internal testing only. Other details in our customers environments may result in the need to change these statements over time

Resolution

Data Collection

  • The Webtrends Smartsource Data Collector 9.2b can be installed on an IPv6 enabled Windows 2008 R2 server and it will log IPv6 data with no configuration changes or updates.
  • Both the Webtrends v9 and v10 JavaScript tags successfully send traffic over IPv4 or IPv6 connections.
  • When deploying a Webtrends JavaScript tag in a dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 environment, no configuration changes are necessary.
  • When deploying Webtrends SDC in a dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 environment, the resulting SDC log file will contain both IPv4 and IPv6 information in the same log file.
  • When deploying a Webtrends JavaScript tag in an IPv6-only environment, contact Webtrends Technical Support to assist in configuring your tag since it defaults to IPv4 for some connections.
  • Webtrends SDC installations on Linux in an IPv6 environment are not supported at this time.

    Data Processing
  • Webtrends Analytics can process log files with IPv6 traffic in them with no issues to the Webtrends engine or services.
  • Geotrends data only includes IPv4 addresses. Any IPv6 address in a processed log file result in geographic look-ups of “unknown” in any report using Geotrends data (e.g. Geography Drilldown, Countries, Domains). IPv4 lookups are unaffected.

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