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Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager

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Avoid substring XPATH evaluation from GC definition

Ignore Evaluation XPATHs which are substrings of other XPATHs in the same definition
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

REST API to bring Filebased device into Managed

Requesting ITNCM REST API like 'IMPORTFROMDEFAULTFILE' that will automatically create a file with targeted NetworkResource name and dummy content at the path specified in FTP GR . And import that file to bring the Filebased Staged NetworkResource ...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Increase ServiceTemplate client parameter value length

Allow ServiceTemplate to set parameter value of length to maximum allowed characters for VARCHAR2 in oracle
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Enhancement in show differences function

User wants an option in show differences function to see only configuration which is different, other common configuration items should not be displayed.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

NOT ASSESSED evaluation should show the XPATH on Results screen

NOT ASSESSED evaluation should show the XPATH on the right side of the Results screen
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance Edit Definition must show all the evaluations

Compliance Edit Definition must show all the xpath evaluations in order to delete the unwanted evaluations, which is not possible from GC template.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance scripting helper - getXpathConfig

Requesting a new Compliance Scripting helper 'String getXpathConfig(String xpath)' that returns configuration under a given xpath from modeled config.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance scripting helper - getHardwareSummary

Compliance scripting - Along side of getNativeConfig() looking for getHardwareSummary()
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

NSM URI to list Services by description

GET nsm/service/description/*searchString* should return matching Services. The searchString should be a minimum of N characters and can contain only [A-Za-z0-9 @-_]
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Use ITNM custom attributes to filter which devices to seed to NCM

Currently the only options to filter/sync between ITNM and NCM are either the entire ITNM domain, and/or filter on device name or entity class. We would also need to be able to filter on custom attributes (such as customer name, or product categor...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration