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Tivoli Network Manager

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Provide Export Profile to support XGSPON Nokia 7360 discovery for both AMS 9.5 and 9.7

Provide Export Profile to support XGSPON Nokia 7360 discovery for both AMS 9.5 and 9.7
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM FP11 TellabsINM8000 (ICON) Java Collector should support Tellabs INM8000 ICON EMS SR8.0 SP3 (Ref Case TS005272257)

We have ITNM 4.2 FP11 (with ICON Test Fix TEST5274508) Production env as listed below using imcl. We received Collector Testfix TEST5274508 on 8th April 2021 and started discovery. The discovery starts well and in the logs it shows a lot of retrie...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Nokia5529IDM Collector to support multiple jndi.properties file by creating an option in the collector properties file.

The collector requires the jndi.properties file to point to the AMS, and it is hardcoded to use: $PRECISION_HOME/collectors/javaCollectors/Nokia5529Idm/jndi.properties file. Provide the option to use an option on the Collector's properties file to...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM DB2 password change without domain restart

Need a method of changing the DB2 password without having to restart ITNM to take effect.
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Process to clean up old entities from active devices

Once a device is discovered bu ITNM, it creates many entities in NCIM database, representing the device, interfaces etc. If any of those entities are not valid anymore (e.g., one of the interfaces is disabled), it is not deleted from the database....
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM EventGateway GwMainNodeLookupUsing function to exclusively look for the ACCESSIPADDRESS instead of all the IPAddresses.

The ITNM EventGateway GwMainNodeLookupUsing function tries to find a match with all the IP addresses associated to a device (all interfaces), causing events from devices that are not in ITNM to be associated to a device if the device discovered by...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Validation of expected columns in ConfigSchema.cfg should generate more information in logs, to make troubleshooting easier

During the upgrade to fix pack 11, we faced an issue where the components would fail during the start. All configuration files were the same from fix pack 10 and we did not experience this issue on the previous version. The problem turned out to b...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM Network Views to support custom tables in NCIM

Hi, We have requirement to show devices discovered from 16 domains in single network view. Customer is having around 19500+ devices and segregrated across 16 domains. Customer wants to see all these devices in single view (filtered by Customer Nam...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

ncp_g_event tcp connection recovery

The ITNM event gateway (ncp_g_event) does not recover lost connection on Objectserver port (4100/tcp) automatically. This results in a non working event enrichment. This happens in implementations where a firewall is between the gateway process an...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Unable to copy data of "Tool Tips" when Mouse over on link or device icon in ITNM Hop View

Some background to this case.If you bring the mouse over the connection between two devices in the Hop View and other views as stated in title, you get a popup with information about the link(s).They are called "tooltips".Megaport want to be able ...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered