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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 2, 2017

To have a easy way to know which targets in scope were unreachable during the discovery

In our environment we usually run discoveries on big scopes. It could happen that some targets included in the scope were unreachable through ping. We are looking for a simple way to have a list of scoped targets, for each of them having the simple information if during the discovery it was possible to ping it or not.

After involving TADDM support on this request, we were informed that there is not any simple way for that. The information about ping failures is only traced in ping sensor log files, but anyway it is not possible to explore them in a simple way, considering that most discoveries include anchors and the ping logs are present both on TADDM DS and on any single anchor (eventually chained).

Idea priority Urgent
RFE ID 100439
RFE URL
RFE Product Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Mgmt (TADDM)
  • Guest
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    Apr 16, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Cloud
    Product family - Operations Management
    Product - Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Mgmt (TADDM)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - ITSM Operations
    Product - Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Mgmt (TADDM)

  • Guest
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    Feb 3, 2017

    You could base a report on differences between on differences between BB_COMPUTERSYSTEM40_V and BB_OPERATINGSYSTEM62_V.

    Whenever a Ping discovery is run, BB_COMPUTERSYSTER40_V receives an update when the DNS entry still exists, but as long as the OSSensor is not run, the lastmod date of BB_OPERATINGSYSTEM62_V is not updated.

    We use this to identify login problems, but it could work for your purpose as well, assuming you're using L2 discovery. Good luck!

    ps. I'm not an IBM employee or representative :)

    The query:
    select
    A2.FQDN_C, A2.CONTEXTIP_C , A2.LASTMODIFIEDTIME_T as "SYSTEM MODIFIEDTIME", A1.LASTMODIFIEDTIME_T as "OS MODIFIEDTIME", A1.OSCONFIDENCE_C
    from cmdb.bb_operatingsystem62_v A1
    join cmdb.BB_COMPUTERSYSTEM40_V A2 on a1.PK_C = A2.PK__OSRUNNING_C
    where
    -- Time difference between system update and os update is more than 2 days:
    (A2.LASTMODIFIEDTIME_C - A1.LASTMODIFIEDTIME_C) >= 2*3600*24*1000
    and
    A1.osconfidence_c = 100
    and
    -- where not interested in systems that haven't been seen at all for 21 days.
    A2.LASTMODIFIEDTIME_C >= (((TRUNC(sys_extract_utc(SYSTIMESTAMP),'MI') - to_date('01-JAN-1970','DD-MON-YYYY')) * (86400) * (1000)) - (21*3600*24*1000))