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Network Management System (NMS)

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Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the new report tab in reports after Upgrade SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6

Dear IBM Team, End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the reports tab in reports post Upgrade of SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6. In older version 5.6.2 , user's able to edit the reports and add new report tabs in opened report but ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Alarm Co-relation and suppress downstream alarms when upstream device itself is down

Alarm Correlation and suppress downstream alarms when upstream device itself is down. currently if any site went down sevone will trigger node down alert for all the (n) devices in that location. Sevone should have some mechanism to identify and c...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

NMS Device Grouping by Product OID/Device Type

A device post discovery is always defined as a particular device type, such as F5, Cisco ASA, etc. Device Group Membership rules should allow for the ability to use Device Type as a means of membership. Currently I am forced to define what the OID...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

RESTapi performance tuning

Customer is using the REST API to verify that the Device IDs and Object IDs they have associated with the telecom inventory in their application is accurate. To do that, they are requesting about 4800 objects from the API. POST /api/v2/devices/obj...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

Data Insight - Visualization of HTTP/S Routes - Reporting

Wanted to know if there was a way to display the traceroute that the HTTP poller uses in SevOne NMS, and if it can be displayed in a widget within DI. The idea is that we would be able to monitor the routes of 443 traffic internal to their geoloca...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

To be able to use SNMP OIDs in Metadata

For example to have the serial number or software version of devices in SevOne. It would be good if this was based on device type. Each device type would then have its own snmp OID. The serial number would be requested during the discovery.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Manually set interface speed

For devices that either don't have a speed such as virtual interfaces or interface where the speed can't be modified on the device side. It would be useful to be able to set the speed manually from SevOne. One example would be why we may not be ab...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration