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Search results: Tivoli Network Manager

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Better control over snmp polling for big network devices

ITNM has two different strategies for polling interfaces depending on the use of a polling filter: - Strategy 1 (when no polling filter is defined): poll all OIDs for each interface. - Strategy 2 (when a polling filter is defined): group multiple ...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM Webtools not working with devices that require SHA2 envryption

ITNM webtools that uses SSH to run the commands remotely on devices that require SHA2 are failing because ITNM uses only SHA1 currentl. More details can be found at IBM case TS006186609.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Custom URL Tool with UserID

Want to be able to create a customer URL tool that also shows the userID of the user that clicks on the customer URL tool. The current documentation was incorrect as it was using cookies as follows: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Inter domain stitching between /30 and /31 subnets

Bharti Airtel is a very big network with lot of devices connected with each other. Recently we started to face lot of issue saying connectivity between various devices is not working. And on further drill down, it was learnt that the A side and B ...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Leading space in a seed file should generate an error

The problem was the empt line in the seed file or the space instead tab in this seed file makes the file finder not work. I suggest that this should generate a warning as nothing was detected by ITNM if this condition exists.
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 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...
over 8 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...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered