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Tivoli Network Manager

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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.
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to create ONT entities.

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to build and create topology between OLT -> ONU.
22 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Make Component discovery of fabric extender consistent

For Cisco Nexus Fabric extenders(FEX) attached to Nexus N9K switches (even with recent firmware), sometimes fabric extender elements were not discovered and the chassis element was not discovered. on other hosts, only the chassis element but no fa...
10 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
about 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file

though the NCIM have cross-domain connections populated using cross-domain stitching. The ncp_dla does not fetch the cross-domain topology in the exported file. the cross-domain topology export is not implemented in ncp_dla.
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool should show/use all information available

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool : Use all available information (L2, L3, routing information (costs, type, ..) in PathView + HopView
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Not under consideration