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Tivoli Network Manager

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Establish Layer 2 connectivity between the Nokia/ALU 5529 AMS and Nokia/ALU 5620 SAM Managed Devices

Able to establish Layer 2 connectivity between the Nokia/ALU 5529 AMS (which manages the DSLAM & OLT) and Nokia/ALU 5620 SAM (which manages the Router Edge devices and others)
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Actual Usage Documentation

Instead of simply writing down the literal operation of the application and associated utilities actually describe what it does and how it accomplishes its tasks. Using snmp_walk.pl I have no idea which community string is being used, why it takes...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Network Manager - MIB, AOC updates for Juniper

Juniper issued an update to their device inventory mib (JUNIPER-CHASSIS-DEFINES-MIB) in June 2017. First update since 2010. Reflects new device models. This request is to have the MIB updated within the Network Manager distributions, along with up...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

NPI requires support for floating point poll data

Support the ability for the poller to store values in floating point.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Path tool option to perform DB trace

When running the path tool within ITNM, it always performs a live trace of the routing data by querying specific OIDs via SNMP. As those OIDs might not all be available on certain devices, it would be a nice feature if the path could be determined...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Support hexstring datatype in ITNM event poll definitions or advanced polling

ITNM generic polls need to be able to report the values for common snmp datatypes, such as (especially) Hex-STRING. Today it seems that we can only specify text, int, and time in advanced polling or poll event description; OIDs with octet string d...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

ITNM SNMP poll definition should allow setting specific index

When trying to snmp poll for e.g. a routing engine teperature index it resulted that it is not possible to query directly from the basic threshold policy on an indexed OID like 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.1.13.1.7.9.1.0.0. It is only possible to poll for t...
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered