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Tivoli Network Manager

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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 2 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 2 years 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 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

net-disco configuration shall be stored in PersistentVolumeClaims

as net-disco always needs some hotfixes and configuration changes, the changes shall survive a pod restart. Stitchers, disco configs, etc
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Instant Client for Oracle 19 in ITNM

ITNM installs the client to connect to database for access the NCIM tables. For Oracle, having it installed and upgraded from 4.2.0.3 to 4.2.0.11 (with many steps in-between over the years), I see two clients at $NCHOME/precision/platform/linux2x8...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Path tool option to perform DB trace

When running the path tool within ITNM, it always performs a live trace of the routing data by querying specific OIDs via SNMP. As those OIDs might not all be available on certain devices, it would be a nice feature if the path could be determined...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

ITNM: Add feature to create static network views

ITNM network maps are dynamically updated unless a global setting is enabled to prevent the re-draw of the map. Static maps are sometimes desired for maps with custom graphic backgrounds where the topology icons are placed in defined locations.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Support hexstring datatype in ITNM event poll definitions or advanced polling

ITNM generic polls need to be able to report the values for common snmp datatypes, such as (especially) Hex-STRING. Today it seems that we can only specify text, int, and time in advanced polling or poll event description; OIDs with octet string d...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

ITNM Network Views to support custom tables in NCIM

Hi, We have requirement to show devices discovered from 16 domains in single network view. Customer is having around 19500+ devices and segregrated across 16 domains. Customer wants to see all these devices in single view (filtered by Customer Nam...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

New TL1 collector for FiberHome NMS

ITNM has a default TL1 collectors which are using TL1 protocol to communicate to Huawei TL1 EMS. This collectors are not equipped to communicate to the FiberHome EMS as the TL1 command formats for the new FiberHome EMS model. Please see details of...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered