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Tivoli Network Manager

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ITNM SNMP poll definition should allow setting specific index

When trying to snmp poll for e.g. a routing engine teperature index it resulted that it is not possible to query directly from the basic threshold policy on an indexed OID like 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.1.13.1.7.9.1.0.0. It is only possible to poll for t...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Add support for SHA256 encryption for SNMPv3 discovery and polling in ITNM

We all need a good hash encryption algorithm in SNMPv3. SHA 1 is likely to be broken and all the NE vendors and security policies are moving to SHA2. We opened the case TS007203260 recently and we were told that SHA256 support is not planned for t...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Better control over snmp polling for big network devices

ITNM has two different strategies for polling interfaces depending on the use of a polling filter: - Strategy 1 (when no polling filter is defined): poll all OIDs for each interface. - Strategy 2 (when a polling filter is defined): group multiple ...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM Webtools not working with devices that require SHA2 envryption

ITNM webtools that uses SSH to run the commands remotely on devices that require SHA2 are failing because ITNM uses only SHA1 currentl. More details can be found at IBM case TS006186609.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Process to clean up old entities from active devices

Once a device is discovered bu ITNM, it creates many entities in NCIM database, representing the device, interfaces etc. If any of those entities are not valid anymore (e.g., one of the interfaces is disabled), it is not deleted from the database....
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on ZTE C300M (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'ZTE C300M device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.3902.1082.1001.6000.4.2 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is not supported and w...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to create ONT entities.

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to build and create topology between OLT -> ONU.
10 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM 4.2.0.7:Alcatel SAM 5620 Collector : Connect to Multiple EMS's

We are using Alcatel5620Sam Java collector to connect to single EMS and able to download topology successfully. Currently in customer environment, Nokia NFM-P EMS has been configured with High Availability so that any of the one instance will be i...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered