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Tivoli Network Manager

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Allow for SNMP polling of object IDs that are not listed in the precision MIB directory

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: User needs to create poll definitions against object IDs not listed in the MIBs loaded from precision MIB directory. Description: Several times we have seen the need to run tests against OIDs not listed in...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Custom URL builder GUI or CLI command

The support documentation for ITNM suggests that various components have a URL that can be used by external systems to link directly into ITNM network hop and other utilities. However, the documentation is misleading or incorrect. Regardless, like...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Create poll definitions against SNMP tables

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: User needs to create a poll definition to test SNMP tables for values on device components such as multiple power supplies. Description: Creating poll definitions to test device components on a chassis whe...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

GUI for poll definition and policy testing example results

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: Need a feature that will allow the user to select a poll definition and policy, execute a mock poll, and display the results to determine how many devices, which devices, and the overall effect this would ...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Multi-Tenacy and RBAC control in Topology Library

Add functionality to enhance Roles Based Access Control (RBAC) in Map Libraries. User should only see their login and not all logins.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Include DNCIM customizations (tables) into export/import tools package

Network Manager provides an import/export package for migration/upgrades. This is expected to bring the entirely of configuration/customization of a network Manager installation into a new installation. This is mostly complete. However, the produc...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 - Poller not clearing events

If a device gets a new IP the old event is never cleared automatically as there is no current correlation for the events based on the device itself. After the discovery sets the device with the new IP that changed during the night, the polling sho...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Not under consideration

Polling of bandwidth for utilization on specific interfaces, esp when sub interfaces are present

We have devices discovered and they have a interface say like se0/1/0 and there is a subinterface se0/1/0.100 underneath it. I have inbandwidth and outbandwidth polling enabled. And it detects utilization above 90% and sends alerts and everything...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration