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Search results: Tivoli Network Manager

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ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Process to clean up old entities from active devices

Once a device is discovered bu ITNM, it creates many entities in NCIM database, representing the device, interfaces etc. If any of those entities are not valid anymore (e.g., one of the interfaces is disabled), it is not deleted from the database....
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM 4.2.0.7:Alcatel SAM 5620 Collector : Connect to Multiple EMS's

We are using Alcatel5620Sam Java collector to connect to single EMS and able to download topology successfully. Currently in customer environment, Nokia NFM-P EMS has been configured with High Availability so that any of the one instance will be i...
about 5 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...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

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

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

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

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