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Tivoli Network Manager

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We need to be able to identify instantly where any IP address in our network is physically connected, without having to scan and discover the entire IPaddress space

This is required by our ISOC teams to be able to respond fast in case of virus or other malicious activities in our global network. Currently due to the heterogenous complexity of the network it can take hours or days to get to the right place and...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Add support for SHA256 encryption for SNMPv3 discovery and polling in ITNM

We all need a good hash encryption algorithm in SNMPv3. SHA 1 is likely to be broken and all the NE vendors and security policies are moving to SHA2. We opened the case TS007203260 recently and we were told that SHA256 support is not planned for t...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Device CLASSTYPE in Event Enrichment

To transfer the classtype (Router, Switch, Firewall etc...) of a device that we have in the NCIM database in the omnibus alert information.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

HuaweiM2K Java Collector should discover all neTypes as in XML dumps

This case is a follow up from the previous TS005353782 case which was closed even before our last inquiry was answered. For the NeType combination below which the previous PMR support described as “Not Supported”, we would like to know when it ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM Webtools not working with devices that require SHA2 envryption

ITNM webtools that uses SSH to run the commands remotely on devices that require SHA2 are failing because ITNM uses only SHA1 currentl. More details can be found at IBM case TS006186609.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Add Failover/failback support for to Alcatel5620Sam Collector

In an environment with two NSPs, one acting as primary and another acting as cold-standby, the collector is not able to recognize that the currently configured NSP is not active and fails to run a discovery.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Enhancement of ITNM TL1 collector to include vlan details from the discovered devices

IBM recently developed and delivered a new TL1 collector to discover FiberHome devices. Post deployment it was found out that the vlan details are missing in the same. This request is to enhance the collector code so as to include the vlan details...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Instant Client for Oracle 19 in ITNM

ITNM installs the client to connect to database for access the NCIM tables. For Oracle, having it installed and upgraded from 4.2.0.3 to 4.2.0.11 (with many steps in-between over the years), I see two clients at $NCHOME/precision/platform/linux2x8...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Tool to list the number of devices polled across the pollers.

Tool to list the number of devices polled across the pollers.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

SGi Interface connectivity between SAEGW to SBG missing

SGi Interface connectivity between SAEGW to SBG missing
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered