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Search results: Tivoli Network Manager

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Have EventGateway to associate symptom Events to Root Cause Events by using @ServerSerial-@ServerName instead of @Serial

In an environment with ITNM connected to a Helper ObjectServer Pair, the Event Gateway is associating the Symptom events NmosSerial with the Serial Number of the Root Cause event in the Helper ObjectServer, this causes the Root Cause to Symptom ev...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

The product should cater for duplicate SNMP Labels across MIBs

Description: Allow ITNM to handle duplicate SNMP Labels across multiple MIBs.We have two MIB files that both contain the same Labels (difference equipment models).In order to get the Poller, MIB Browser and MIB Graph tools to work for this equipme...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 4 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...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 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...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

ITNM : Partial discovery based on IPs against a subset of mib oids

In Agile Lifecycle Manager (ALM) project, we have requirement on need to check the availability of the physical interface ports, vlan ,and sub interface, and need to check their ifDescription, IfAdminStatus and ifOperStatus....before we make a req...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

NCP_GIS configuration deleted after Fixpack installation

NCP_GIS (config.json) configuration is deleted and replaced with default one once fixpack is installed. Automatic configuration backup should handled by fixpack installation process.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Ability to queue discoveries one after another.

Currently can schedule discoveries but doesn't provide the same function. Sometimes discoveries of large groups cause issues with database or don't complete. If these could be done in smaller chunks running back to back there would be less issues....
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Polling of bandwidth for utilization on specific interfaces, esp when sub interfaces are present

We have devices discovered and they have a interface say like se0/1/0 and there is a subinterface se0/1/0.100 underneath it. I have inbandwidth and outbandwidth polling enabled. And it detects utilization above 90% and sends alerts and everything...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Use ENTITYID instead of MAINNODEENTITYID for BGP status polling

This RFE is based on initial observation and detailed discussion with L3 support. The L3 support finally concluded that such BGP event supression is impossible in the current design. With the current ITNM polling design, "Interface Filter" option...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered