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Tivoli Network Manager

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Add support for FiberHome equipment in TNM

Add support for FiberHome equipment in TNM via manufacturer-provided OIDs as set out in support case TS016939673.
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under 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
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

ITNM must cover Juniper MIBs for proper BGP status polling event supression

The reason for a need to open a new RFE is: For the RFE that was delivered previously ( TNMGR-I-140 ) for "Use ENTITYID instead of MAINNODEENTITYID for BGP status polling", in the mentioned scope (which was informed to customer earlier via email),...
5 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

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.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

DLA - Cross-Domain - genmore option

The fix provided through the idea "Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file idea" (https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TNMGR-I-175 and case TS014214371) includes cross-domain links but does not support the genmore option. In the XML ...
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

Automatic rebuild topological view after discovery

After run of discovery we need the automatic update of topological view for include new devices discovered. See also further datail in reported case.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists