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Workspace Tivoli Network Manager
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Created on Jul 7, 2017

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Support hexstring datatype in ITNM event poll definitions or advanced polling

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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 datatypes are converted to ASCII by ITNM before we can see the original values. In particular, BGP-4 mibs encode IPv4 or IPv6 strings as hex-strings, and we need to be able to work backwards from a string such as this:


'74 33 1B 65' = '116.51.27.101' (Not 't3 e' – some of it is convertible, but where do you put the separations?!)
or
'20 01 02 18 40 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 89' = '2001:218:4000:5000:0:0:0:189' (not ' @')

To solve this problem, we would like to have a hex format string to include in the poll's event description, something like this:

eval(hexstring,"&SNMP.VALUE.cbgpPeer2LocalAddr")

I thought perhaps this was built in and just undocumented – but, no: IBM L3 told me I needed to open an RFE for this functionality.

Idea priority High
RFE ID 107489
RFE URL
RFE Product Tivoli Network Manager
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    |     Apr 12, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Cloud
    Product family - Operations Management
    Product - Tivoli Network Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - ITSM Operations
    Product - Tivoli Network Manager

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