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ITNM Configuration Utility - Extend Database Finder to have GUI configuration

Please extend the Database Finder to have a GUI based configuration so that it's easier to define custom databases, columns and attributes to enable data retrieval as a feed to Discovery.
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Customer would like to show router redundancy per device in either a tab or a Network View

Customer is on ITNM 4.2 FP14 and would like to have the "show router redundancy" per device either in a tab or in a Network View.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Dynamically SNMP Credentials change acceptance

Enhancement request in processing dynamically SNMP Credentials change(made to SnmpStackSecurityInfo.cfg via CLI/GUI) by ITNM and minimize downtime of Monitoring via Poller processes. Keeping, new security policies in mind, would required this func...
6 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

ITNM Discovery Improvement for FULL And PARTIAL

Can we have Dual discovery or much controlled and customised discovery modes: main aim is to reduce long discovery times here. For Ex. what we are looking for is described below: Let us say we have seed based control not using scope based: [two se...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

ITNM capability to create wireless heatmaps

This RFE is to suggest adding wireless heatmaps to ITNM to enhance mangement of wireless networks. A wireless heatmap would allow end-users to discover wireless access points and create a floorplan to show the signal strength of the access point e...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Provide GUI for polling confirmation

Add a GUI option to display which poll definitions and policies apply to a given device or set of devices.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Provide enumeration lookup from within poll definitions

Provide an enumeration lookup from within the Event Summary of a poll definition to convert integer values into meaningful text.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

GUI for restarting processes

Provide a GUI to restart ITNM processes. This would be helpful for kill -USR, kill -HUP, and starting failed processes.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Customizing the device icon status color in NCPGUI topology network views

We should also be able to highlight the device status using a different color on the device icon status for a specific alarm coming from the object server through the gateway.
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Matching LocalNodeAlias and Node to process OMNIbus events in ITNM

I have events that arrive from different managers to OMNIbus and are associated with discovered devices, just because they match in the IP that is in LocalNodeAlias
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration