NetView Enhancement Requests
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JaneCurry
We need to have a way to send popups to users connected to the Java console from a script (or when a specific event arrives), the same way it is possible in the native console with the ovxecho command.
It would be also very usefull if we could control the buttons in the popup (ie have a "OK" and a "Cancel") and have a return code to know what button was selected by the user.
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I need this too. Alfred Reibenschuh/IT-AUSTRIA - 01 Mar 2005)
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FrancoisLeHir - 04 Feb 2004
We would need to be able to execute task on specific events, the same way it is already possible to do in the native console ("Options --> Additional Actions --> Selected")
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FrancoisLeHir - 04 Feb 2004
We need to have the servmon daemon create some icons for the services in the map the same way it is done in the Windows version of netview.
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I need this too. As a workaround if you need these icons now in Unix, look under
ServmonItmquery for the paper and code that does this; I stress this is a WORKAROUND - we still need the enhancement to the code -
JaneCurry )
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I need this too. Alfred Reibenschuh/IT-AUSTRIA - 01 Mar 2005)
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I need this too.
ColinMulkerrins - 03 Mar 2005)
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FrancoisLeHir - 04 Feb 2004
SNMP V3 support for NetView
Need I say more? There is some sort of a solution from SNMP Research - see the
FaQ - but
NetView should have its own native support. This standard was fully ratified in March 2002.
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I need this too. Alfred Reibenschuh/IT-AUSTRIA - 01 Mar 2005)
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JaneCurry - 05 Feb 2004
In addition, a mechanism to be able to use non-standard SNMP ports to traverse firewalls, such as what is implemented on the Tivoli Security Firewall Toolkit, using an "SNMP Sink" or similar.
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DanielCompaneetz - 24 May 2004
SNMP V3 is pretty important to deploy Netview under restricted networks. Iīve got some cases where Security Audit didnīt allow deploying SNMP V1, V2 on devices because it wasnīt IPSec compliant.
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I need this too. Alfred Reibenschuh/IT-AUSTRIA - 01 Mar 2005)
DaniloAraujo - 14 Feb 2005
Enhancements to Mid Level Manager (MLM)
Scenario
I want MLM as a full solution for managing limited numbers of systems behind firewalls - a DMZ is an obvious example.
Problems with current Offerings
- MLM code doesn't exist for Linux which I see being deployed more and more in DMZs.
- I cannot customise an MLM from a NetView on Windows or Linux - no smconfig - no Agent Policy Manager (APM).
- MLM and NetView only support SNMP V1 protocol (NV on Unix supports V2 traps but we need lots more than that)
- MLM discovery only works if NetView's netmon daemon can get at leat one ping to an MLM-discovered node so you either have to hand-add all DMZ nodes, use loadhosts, negotiate a "ping-hole" period with our firewall administrator.......
- The IBM preferrd solution to managing in the DMZ seems to be to deploy a small NetView in the DMZ and access it via the web console. This is very unattractive for several reasons:
- Most folk want one NetView database (map) that shows everything, not lots of separate databases
- The web console is still poor in performance and functionality - you cannot manage a NetView with it
- Extra (probably dedicated) hardware required. This often means PC architecture which in turn means Linux or Windows NetViews, which in turn means no subsequent management of MLMs from these sub-NetViews
Enhancement Request(s)
- MLM, implemented on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Windows.
- Changes to NetView on Linux and Windows to incorporate smconfig and APM to manage MLMs
- Changes to the NetView netmon daemon to accept entries in an MLM discovery table without requiring a ping from NetView
- SNMP V3 capability on MLM and NetView to satisfy firewall administrators' (fairly reasonable) concerns about SNMP V1 security (SNMP V2 is old-hat, will never be a full standard. V3 has now been a full standard for 2 years)
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I need this too. Alejandro Gabay - 28 Feb 2005)
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I need this too. Alfred Reibenschuh/IT-AUSTRIA - 01 Mar 2005)
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JaneCurry - 05 Feb 2004
Manage/Unmanage networks from the CLI with nvmaputil.sh
We need to be able to Manage/Unmanage... networks (=subnets) from the database with nvmaputil.sh.
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FrancoisLeHir - 26 Feb 2004
Presently quicktest -F test all the interfaces of a node and regenerate all the interface events. This is very usefull when somehow an event has been lost and the color of an object has not been updated in the map according to it's status in the database. However quicktest -F doesn't generate the node event and therefore the color of the node is not updated. We would need to be able to generate this event when we do a quicktest -F on a node.
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FrancoisLeHir - 26 Feb 2004
It would make our life much easyer. I agree with your suggestion.
DaniloAraujo - 14 Feb 2005
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I need this too. Alfred Reibenschuh/IT-AUSTRIA - 01 Mar 2005)
Implement RFC2667 "IP Tunnel MIB" support
In environments where IP Sec Tunnels are used, Netview has no way of monitoring or logically drawing their connections. Taking advantage of RFC2667 should allow Netview to draw these connections based on IP Sec tunnel start points and end points as well as status monitoring.
MR0407042329 entitled 'Implement RFC2667 "IP Tunnel MIB"'
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ChanningHill - 08 June 2004
Nowdays all the Network Devices have a hostname
which usually is associated with the Loopback IP Address.
Netview while discovers a new object it should first of all
take the hostname from the Device (via SNMP) and then do a reverse lookup
on the DNS server to find the IP address of this name. I think that the current
object naming procedure which is used from Netview is not enough.
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DimitrisLeventidis - 08 September 2004
Restore NetView GUI menus for SNMP V2 MIBS
Please restore the registration files to load and browse SNMP V2 MIBs.
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JaneCurry - 15 February 2005
It would be very usefull to be able to allow some users to see some smartsets and not others. This could be accomplished with the definition of the scopes in the web security console.
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FrancoisLeHir - 20 Oct 2005
Me too!
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JaneCurry - 26 Oct 2005
Password Authentication with TACACS or RADIUS AAA Server
The option to authenticate passwords and users via an Authentication server. A good example would be Cisco ACS. This would simplify user management and validate password changes. This would make administration easier because passwords could be managed by an external database. This is how all our network management applications authenticate users with the exception of
NetView.
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RobShipley - 9 March 2006
Change Total Traps and non-Tivoli NetView Traps view for ITM NetView Server agent
The ITM
NetView Server agent provides integration between
NetView and ITM6.1. One of the standard workspaces in the ITM 6.1 TEP shows a pie chart of Total Traps and non-Tivoli
NetView traps. This is not sensible for a pie chart as the two elements do not make up 100% of the total traps. It would be much better if the
NetView agent delivered non-Tivoli
NetView Traps and
NetView traps and then graphed these 2 attributes on a pie chart.
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JaneCurry - 11 May 2007