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Tivoli Network Manager

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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.
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future 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...
9 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

add support for non-LACP link aggregation

For device discovery when CDP and LLDP are disabled, add support for non-LACP link aggregation. in order to obtain all required link-layer data like link aggregation membership data obtained at Layer 2
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Under review

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 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

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 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

Add Support for Nokia Router 7750 SR

device does not appear to support the standard entity mib, the entity agent is not able to fetch the required containment data that is present on the enterprise mib.
5 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Problem to discover Serial Number, Manufacturer and vendor parameters for Tiesse devices

I'm trying to find the serial number, manifacture and vendor parameters of the Tiesse devices. I built the ad hoc agent but even if it does not give an error it does not extract the desired values.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 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.
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Under review