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Tivoli Network Manager

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discovery and Ping polling to VRF interface with HSRP on Nexus

We need to be able to discover and ping polling to the IP addresses on physical interfaces on HSRP with VRF environment on Nexus. When ITNM discover HSRP with VRF's between 2 devices, ITNM sometimes defined the physical or virtual IP address as a ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Dedicated Juniper and Huawei telnet agents to collect and process OSPF data

Our customer have a need for specific Juniper and Huawei OSPF disco agents, because right now OSPF data for this vendors collected not fully (for example missing connections if OSPF protocol configured on a subinterface rather then on interface).
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool should show/use all information available

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool : Use all available information (L2, L3, routing information (costs, type, ..) in PathView + HopView
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Not under consideration

ITNM regexpmatch

The eval code REGEXPMATCH in ITNM polling needs to work the same as stitchers. The code example below will never match - ** disregard and typos - the REGEXPMATCH eval statement does not work.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Have EventGateway to associate symptom Events to Root Cause Events by using @ServerSerial-@ServerName instead of @Serial

In an environment with ITNM connected to a Helper ObjectServer Pair, the Event Gateway is associating the Symptom events NmosSerial with the Serial Number of the Root Cause event in the Helper ObjectServer, this causes the Root Cause to Symptom ev...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

New Collector for Discovering FiberHome MSAN devices

The customer has a set of MSAN’s that are from FiberHome OEM. The OEM supports TL1 as NBI for collecting inventory data. Since ITNM doesn’t have a generic TL1 collector, we will need a new collector developed. The following are the TL1 comman...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Last Resort Circuit Status Support in ITNM

We need to be able to manage last resort circuit status where the interaface is normally ifadmin up and ifoper down until the primary circuits fail at which time the last resort circuit moves to ifadmin up and ifoper up. We need to not create inte...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

The product should cater for duplicate SNMP Labels across MIBs

Description: Allow ITNM to handle duplicate SNMP Labels across multiple MIBs.We have two MIB files that both contain the same Labels (difference equipment models).In order to get the Poller, MIB Browser and MIB Graph tools to work for this equipme...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Capability to add and populate custom field on device via UI as supposed to using backend stitcher

Looking for capability to add and populate custom field or attribute to device via UI. Currently we use backend stitcher and customization to add new custom field or attribute.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated for a single data point in the aggregate table for the month.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration