All idea exchange posts in Network Operations Management

Enhance custom poller to query multiple tree MIB instances

ramesh9 — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:25:56 GMT

Dear

I am trying to use Custom poller to query WIFI Clients performance using below OIDs,

Client name : 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.3
Client SNR ( Signal to noise ratio ) : 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.6.1.26
Client RSSI ( Received Signal Strength Indicator ) : 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.6.1.1
Client TX Excessive retries : 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.21.1.2

I had configured MIB filter as 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.3

However when I see results, I see no value collected for below OID,

Client TX Excessive retries : 1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.21.1.2

This is because MIB tree for this OID is different from MIB filter.

Please enhance custom poller to collect value from multiple MIB tree branch or remove MIB filter option to collect values from required OIDs.

HOW TO remove dependencies of a node ( or interface) group as NNMi does not clean up

Andreas Poehlmann — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:14:13 GMT

- create a node group
- make use of the group e.g. in NodeSettings of an EvenConfig

=> delete the node group
==> do you want to delete the group and all its dependencies? => YES

I expected proper cleanup - BUT

within NodeSettings the group is still reverenced, no longer by name but by uuid.

Bug or feature?

Questions:
- how to properly remove a node group and its references?
- how to find where a node group was used?

Requesting more flexibility in the way NNMi Catalogs devices to allow for better device management

johnivon — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:06:11 GMT

I would like a way to catalog/create a profile using the OID and other variables or sub variables like sysdescriptions to differentiate between dual use device deployments.

Background behind the request. We have an SDLAN ACI deployment.

The aci-n9000-system is a leaf and spine configuration used in the Datacenter environment.

Our configuration has ACI devices with dual usages.

One as a NX-OS(tm) nxos.7.0.3.I7.6.bin device / and one as an aci-n9000-system

We integrate the NNMi inventory with HPNA to backup all device configs.

The HPNA driver can’t support / handle leaf / spines added into NA any other way other than by NA itself (module diagnostic task runs and results in the leaf

spine getting added).

It's a known limitation, so we would need to make sure leaf or spine devices wouldn't get added in thru the integration Module.

We need to filter out that usage to enable HPNA to discover these devices. We do this thru the OID profiles.

NNMi uses Device Profiles (which equate to sysObjectID) to control certain types of behavior.

The Integration Module uses a device group as its input inventory. We configure the group to add or Filter out devices to/from HPNA via the device types and Profiles.

A solution would be to have more flexibility with the way NNMi Catalogs devices to allow for a more granular approach to device management

Re: NA: For Policy / Rule - Add ability to match multiple text within a block

AkashDeep — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:22:58 GMT

, Can you please add an Idea for the exact enhancement you need?

Please note the ask under this idea is already available in the product and the Idea is at terminating state "Already Offered".

Provided information is not clear when adding a seed and found duplicate

Bharath Kumar — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:58:30 GMT

Hi,

I had gone through few posts:

https://community.microfocus.com/t5/Network-Management-OpenView-NNM/Duplicate-Seed-issue/m-p/561708#M988

https://community.microfocus.com/t5/Network-Management-OpenView-NNM/Duplicate-seed/m-p/615057#M161021

Changing the log level and finding the seed is fine. But my question is:

Lets say we have two hostname's (with 2 interfaces) hostA and hostB. When I add hostA it will get added successfully and when tried to add hostB NNM says "Node not created (duplicate seed)".

Would like to check with NNM team that it will be great if we receive a message saying:

"Node not created (duplicate seed) of hostA" which will reduce troubleshooting time.

Also, it will take much time to get MAC addresses from internal customers to find the duplicate device which is already added in NNM.

Kindly suggest !!!

I tried to open Product Enhancement Request but support team requested me to post here.

Regards,

Bharath Kumar.

Improve custom poller to collect based on filter values

ramesh9 — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:57:18 GMT

Dear All

I am using Custom poller to collect client details of WIFI access points based on below MIB variables,

1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.3
1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.9
1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.6.1.2
1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.6.1.3
1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.2.1.4.1.25 ( Client protocol - 5 means client is connecting using mobile )

Now when I define the collection NNM collects all client details, even clients who are connecting from laptop.

I only want to collect client details who are connected from mobile.

Is this possible using custom poller or can we enhance custom poller.

Improve custom poller feature with scripting

ramesh9 — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:48:03 GMT

Dears

Currently we can use Custom poller to collect MIB values from target devices.

However I see we cannot use scripting on the values collected, for example manipulate values collected and store the manipulated values. If MIB value returned is integer, I know we can use MIB expression, however if collected value is string or other types we cannot use MIB expression.

Please enhance custom poller to have this feature.

Re: NA: For Policy / Rule - Add ability to match multiple text within a block

Sanjeev_A — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:33:35 GMT

I believe there are use cases when we need to refer names from one part of configuration and refer that in other part of the configuration and if that is made available will help validate these settings. e.g. ACL definition and application or use of that ACL where the ACL number of name is not standard and we need to validate the settings based on what is configured on the devices.

Putting all that information into single rule condition might not be feasible, thus making a case to have it available across multiple rule conditions within a single rule.

Re: Save details / event detail of the report "Check policy compliance" in CSV file

Sanjeev_A — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:24:20 GMT

The compliance report available from the Advanced Search option should include all different fields that are selected in the report output format along with the "Detail" column that lists the reason for non-compliance of the rule.

Today, that filed is not available when you download the search results or send those results via email. The "Detail" field is available in view detailed compliance report which doesn't have other fields like rule importance and other selectable fields from the report output option.

So make small tweaks in the report options available from the tool to have that "Detail" field available and same is made available in CLI/API calls too.

Re: NA: tracking of script & policy history

427Cobra — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:54:21 GMT

Great idea, it would also be good to rollback the changes using subversion(SVN) running in the background. Also to be able to compare the differences of between saved versions.

Re: Policy management, tracking

427Cobra — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:49:34 GMT

Great idea, it would also be good to rollback the changes using subversion(SVN) running in the background. Also to be able to compare the differences of between saved versions.

Re: NA - Check Policy Compliance - Task result should show task status and not compliance status

427Cobra — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:39:18 GMT

it would beneficial if from compliance result screen to toggle what as in compliance or matching as well, Possibly handle like configuration change side-by-side comparison.

Provide an option to create a list of approved values and use them in compliance rules

Sanjeev_A — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 07:10:12 GMT

Can you make an option to define custom lists that can be defined with approved values and have them refer as variable in the compliance rules? That way the list can be managed centrally for any modification and doesn't need to touch any controls in the policy for modification whenever there is a change in the infrastructure.

e.g. If the requirement is to validate specific IP addresses/subnets for AAA, Logging, Monitoring etc.. can be created and referred in different rules for various devices in multiple policies.

XML Parsing support in NA for configuration compliance

Sanjeev_A — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 07:02:33 GMT

The current compliance is based on parsing the text file configuration of devices. However there are few devices like Juniper SSL-VPN devices, that stores the configuration in XML format and there is no option to parse XML files in the NA tool. Can you add additional capability to validate the configuration compliance of these devices by providing the feature to parse XML files? If you are able to add feature to maintain relation of parent-->child relationship to multiple levels and then have the tag-value pairs validated for specific set of configurations then it would be helpful.

On a side note, is there any plan to introduce multiple blocks in the rule, as we have seen in some configurations like Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls (single VDOM and Multi VDOM configurations), there is a need to maintain checks within an outer block and there are multiple blocks within that configuration from which validation is required to be done?

Re: kubernetes integration with HP NNMi

AkashDeep — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 04:58:34 GMT

Hi Anish.

NNMi is about monitoring and managing network devices. K8S is a computer application, which manages containerized workloads and services. As this is nothing to do with the Computer Network, it is not in the scope of NNMi.

I hope this clarifies.

Operation Bridge from Micro Focus is more tuned to managing applications.

Provide a tool to manage information collected in VLAN tables.

Bfdx — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:26:51 GMT

Re: Fix/Update Bundled Documentation in NMC-NNMi-Lin-2019.11.tar.gz

AkashDeep — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:30:01 GMT

Hi Brandon.

There are two ways one can raise the documentation issue:

1. There is a Feedback link at the bottom of every page, which generates an email to the documentation team. And they work on addressing the issue.

2. Raise a support case for the same, and the support team would work with R&D to get the reported issue fixed.

Idea Exchange is not the process meant for it. Please forward me the support case ID for the interation you had with support, and I would follow up with the support team.

Re: kubernetes integration with HP NNMi

anishrana2001 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:23:19 GMT

Hello Akash,

Thanks for your response on this topic.

All the alarms generated by Kubernetes should be managed by NNMi. For this, I need a MIBs for Kubernetes devices. As of know, I am also not aware of what type of alarms Kubernetes will send to NNMi. That I need to work with Kubernetes team.

Before starting this project, I need a MIBs that ensure that all the alarms will be well taken at HP NNMi server side.

Let me know if you need further information.

Thanks,

Anish Rana

Re: kubernetes integration with HP NNMi - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 04:51:29 GMT

Dear Submitter,

NNMi is available to run in the Kubernetes environment as part of our containerization strategy. However, this is not available for production deployment as of now.

However, this idea seems to be around NNMi integrating with K8S. Can you please clarify, what integration you would like to see between NNMi & K8S?

Re: To be able to use NNM licenses in NOM to use the NOM features - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 04:41:31 GMT

Dear Submitter.

NNMi as a product can be deployed with NNMi or NOM license as of now.

With NOM license, it enables you to have Diagnostics Analytics, BVD export, etc. enabled. Also, with NOM license you can deploy additional components you mentioned above.

The same is true for NA as a product, where it can understand both NOM and NA license.

Given this, can you please clarify as to what exactly is the requirement here?

Re: bug in NNM-2019.05 Logging in with TLS/PKI. Communication Settings shows a new window not the data - Status changed to: Declined

AkashDeep — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 04:26:20 GMT

Dear Submitter,

Please file a support case for any BUG with the tool. If you had already filed one for this, please provide me a case ID.

Re: Replace Flash in NNMi. - Status changed to: Delivered

AkashDeep — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 04:19:50 GMT

Dear submitter and contributors,

We have release NNMi 2019.05 patch 3, which removes the Flash option and all relevant files. Please upgrade to 2019.05 and deploy patch 3 for the same.

Patches and more details can be found at:

Linux: https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/LID/NNM201905L_00003

Windows: https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/LID/NNM201905W_00003

Re: Need to configure SMS alerts and notifications from NNMi

AkashDeep — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 04:08:57 GMT

NNMi allows one to configure an action for any incident. You can use that for integration with email, SMS or any other service.

Cisco Nexus Aggregator interface polling needs to be enhanced

ramesh9 — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 04:32:29 GMT

Cisco Nexus 5000 Switches.

We have Uplink ports created on these switches, however Uplink ports are not been monitored or performance is not getting collected.

Please enhance the solution to get these aggregator interfaces for monitoring and performance data is collected.

Re: Allow additional Wireless Access Point attributes to be replicated to OBM/RTSM/UCMDB

j_h_1 — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:48:52 GMT

AkashDeep,

Any updates on this idea?

Re: Enable security access to QA site

ramesh9 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:24:09 GMT

Dear

Thanks for the explanation.

In our environment, devices are owned by network team. QA probes will be created for other teams A and B.

I want Team A to only see the probes assigned to them and similar to Team B.

How this can be achieved by Tenant concept.

As per my understanding, user access to devices is based on Security groups not Tenants.

bug in NNM-2019.05 Logging in with TLS/PKI. Communication Settings shows a new window not the data

Whitlock Support — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:03:04 GMT

Both Firefox, Chrome and Edge have this problem. I won't say it is only a problem with Communication Settings (Monitoring settings do not have the problem), but since the problem exists on all my browsers

This is only a problem with NNM 2019.05 and login with TLS/PKI, though admittedly I haven't tested with user/password login as all my test servers use TLS/PKI. If I select a node and then either from the top level menu or right clicking on the device, when I select Communications Setting, I get a new window. Instead of showing me the data, it asks for a login. If I select Monitoring settings or any other setting I get the normal new window with the data. I tested on Chrome and Edge. I have seen exceptions and it is more consistent when the node is set to critical/red.

Re: NA: For Policy / Rule - Add ability to match multiple text within a block

Brian Kaplan — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:42:12 GMT

No, we can't refer to groups from A and use them in B or C.

Re: Enable security access to QA site

Vesselin Kotaro — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:28:56 GMT

When creating site you are able to specify Tenant it lives in. Also mentioned in documentation:

https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Network_Node_Manager_i:2019.11/QaConfigSites#Add_sites

BR,

Vesko.

Re: NA: For Policy / Rule - Add ability to match multiple text within a block

Sanjeev_A — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:41:42 GMT

I mean multiple conditions within a rule like Config Block A, Config Text B, Config Text C etc. that we see today while creating a rule and use boolean expression to define the logic. Are we able to refer groups from A and use them in B or C?

To be able to use NNM licenses in NOM to use the NOM features

binuj — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 06:44:26 GMT

Currently there are 2 products which are NNM and NOM. NOM has additional functionality included like NA and also has options like CDF and also integration to BVD. These features are missing for NNM.

There should be an option to use NOM with NNM license whereby only the features of NNM are enabled and if NOM license installed then you should be able to use the full features of NOM.

This will help to have one product and also the customers to be able to use the new enhancements of NOM and also to have it installed on CDF and integrations to BVD etc

Re: Enable security access to QA site

ramesh9 — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:21:11 GMT

Not sure how I can assign tenants to QA sites, please can you elaborate more.

Re: NNMi - Schedule auto discovery at a given time

Vesselin Kotaro — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:30:47 GMT

what I am trying to explain is that discovery is designed in a way that period will shift depending on how network changes/responds/behaves. This is all done to keep up-to-date information about your network.

I am not really getting the reason why you would like to limit discovery to certain timeframe? If discovery runs at 02:00 and interface description changes at 03:00 you will have to live with the old description for 23 hours until next discovery. Haven't seen operations person OK with such delay.

Re: Enable security access to QA site

Vesselin Kotaro — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:23:25 GMT

How about using tenants?

Re: Automatically delete connections for disabled links after a period of time

hansco — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:48:58 GMT

In our large environment with changes on a daily basis this would be a great improvement.

Automatically delete connections for disabled links after a period of time

Vicente Navarro — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:18:22 GMT

This is a repost of the legacy Enhancement Requests QCCR1B151773 and QCCR1B119433 in Idea Exchange.

When the interfaces that are part of a connection are disabled (ifAdminStatus=Down), the connection becomes grey and NNMi will never remove that connection automatically. That connection may still exist physically or not, and it may make sense that the user wants to keep it or not. But in cases that the connection is undesired (i.e. the link is disabled because it is no longer there), it may create strong confusion in the map. Currently, the workaround to remove that connection if it is undesired is to enable again the interface and: -->rediscover the nodes --> set deletion of inactive connections (which have been down for X number of days) in discovery configuration But that involves re-enabling again the interface, which may be not possible at all! Alternatively, nnmconnedit.ovpl could also be used for this, but it would be highly inconvenient to a large network. Therefore, NNMi should provide a way to remove connections for disabled interfaces. This could be as simple as adding an additional option next to "Period (in Days) to Delete Connections that are Down" for "Period (in Days) to Delete Connections that are Disabled"

Re: NA: For Policy / Rule - Add ability to match multiple text within a block

Brian Kaplan — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:31:12 GMT

Hi Sanjeev,

The capture groups work within any of the conditions, but not between them, if that's the question. The context of the capture groups remains within any given condition.

Re: NA: For Policy / Rule - Add ability to match multiple text within a block

Sanjeev_A — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 06:10:04 GMT

Does it also work for multiple conditions within the rule for checking the configuration at different places?

e.g. ACL definition and use of that ACL in the VTY line configuration.

Re: NNMi - Schedule auto discovery at a given time

pabharat — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:01:15 GMT

Event based rediscovery of existing device is fine.

We want to run scheduled discovery of devices in given subnet in given DC on the basis of local off hours. Don't want to run it at same time for all DC spread across many time zones.

for example want to run discovery for DC in CA, USA at 02:00 hrs (PST) and for DC in India at 02:00 hrs (IST).

Re: NA-Run specific policy(s)

pabharat — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:50:14 GMT

Exportable report should work.

Compliance status of device will change at next scheduled compliance check, that's ok.

Re: NA: standard FTP-server (for non NA internal tasks)

smith — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:17:42 GMT

For this

- credentials - Admin - Administrative Settings - Device Access - FTP and SSH Device Access

I don't see any current information in there. If i add a user and password does it break any existing functionality to anything? Can users who have existing accounts also login via ftp or can ftp only use this account and now must share it? Thanks - just trying to fully understand the ramifications of doing this.

Re: Need to configure SMS alerts and notifications from NNMi

fms_bsdc — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:12:55 GMT

Hi Team,

How to integration email & SMS gateway, while any device goes down.

Thansk

Re: Need to be able to clone enrichment payload filters via the GUI

asoloperto — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:58:00 GMT

Is it not possible to use nnmincidentcfgdump.ovpl / nnmincidentcfgload.ovpl for this use case?

Enable security access to QA site

ramesh9 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:09:09 GMT

We had configured 100s of UDP IP SLA QA probes in our environment and we are creating QA sites based on source and destination.

We need to segregate sites based on users who will access them. For example user1 should have access only to site1 to site5, user2 should have access only to site6 to site10.

We are not seeing any possibility of doing this in QA SPI configuration or from NNM point of view.

Please introduce security access to QA sites created.

Sv: Replace Flash in NNMi.

HJM — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:18:05 GMT

Removing Flash would solve the issue for every one. In the meantime I will try to inform the users how to change to the non-Flash option.

kubernetes integration with HP NNMi

anishrana2001 — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:24:41 GMT

Hello Team,

I am wondering if Mircofocus would provide support and documentation to integrate Kubernetes into HPNNMi server. As of now, Microfocus is being on top while using monitoring tools, and also work on future technology to cop its customer's needs. However, when I talk about Kubernetes, it is absent. It would be great if Microfocus support new Vendors like Kubernetes. If it is not possible to provide the support ASAP then a workaround, such as REST API, will also be work.

Thanks,

Anish Rana

NNMi: Web Service for direct mapping between trapOids and nodeGroups and Incident Configuration

Radmilo — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:33:57 GMT

We need to have this service to be able to have direct mapping between trapOids and nodeGroups and Incident Configuration on DB level - because it is not possible to do it in the current NNMi versions.

It will allow creating reports/output based on Node Groups/Interface Groups for all Traps or Management Events giving us details about attributes for each Trap and ME like: Actions, Dampening, Suppression...

For example, now it is not possible to create report for all Payload Filters within Actions/Dampening/Suppression for SNMP Traps/Management Events - based on Node Groups/Interface Groups...

Thanks
Radmilo

Re: NNMi and the iSPI products should run as non-root users

Vesselin Kotaro — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:51:28 GMT

So it's not completely delivered because most of the iSPIs (MPLS, IPT, MCAST) still cannot run as user different than root?

Re: NNMi uCMDB/OBM Toplogy integration should draw a relationship between IP address and Interface C

Sree50 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:02:13 GMT

For the relationship between IPAddress and Interface missing in uCMDB for network device, in NNMi this relationship is present, however it is not being synced to uCMDB. This is a pre-requiste to push a IP address in ServiceNow. ServiceNow doesnt accept a IP without interface relationship.

ER request has been raised for the same. SD02574085

Adding to this, for network devices, in NNMi we have the primary ip address. Same is not being synced to uCMDB into primary ip address field. This will help clients to know the primary ip address of the network device.

Re: NNMi reports for incidents

dwight_simmons — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:45:15 GMT

We have been about this capability in our environment. I vote yes!

Re: NNMi - Schedule auto discovery at a given time

Vesselin Kotaro — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:55:24 GMT

Can't agree with you here. Discovery will kick in if node restart or configuration change is detected. Also, it is possible that discovery queue gets filled and discovery time for node is shifted. I would never assume that if discovery passed at specific time it will pass at that time in future.

Generally, limiting discovery to specific timeframe is a bad idea. If device is unable to handle discovery requests this should be brought to respective vendor.

For MultiConfig drivers a section enumeration / collapsible display is needed

Denny123 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:31:19 GMT

For the drivers like A10, Checkpoint or any Linux based we need a way to easily enumerate/list the parts included. There is no way to check what sections are included other than scrolling through all the config lines.

It is very difficult to work with many sections on many lines of config without having a collapsible display such as is done with the current Cisco IOS driver. With Cisco ISO driver sections are enumerated at the top and can also be collapsed by clicking on the beginning of the section line

If you take a look at the example screenshot below that was provided of a Cisco IOS config where there is already links to the various sections of a device config at the top which will take you to the various sections of the config and also a + to expand or - to collapse sections of a config. We are asking for the same feature (like for Cisco example screen capture) to be added to the devices like the A10, Checkpoint or any Linux based ones .

Example Cisco IOS multiconfgCurrently when you have devices that have hundreds of thousands of lines of config data it is difficult to scroll down and find the section you are looking for. Sometimes the config is so large that you can't even scroll to the bottom of the config without having browser issues.

Re: Need to be able to clone enrichment payload filters via the GUI

heybails1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:11:34 GMT

I'm mainly talking about in Management Event and SNMP Trap Configurations. Let's say you have a single trap that creates several possible alarms. You create a payload filter for a minor alarm using several regex options. Rather than start over to create another filter for a major alarm using the same trap, it would be nice to copy the minor filter in the GUI and then change it to major.

Re: Support for Versa SDN

ThibaudA — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:06:42 GMT

Hello,

Yes I agreed.

Could you please expend the support to QOS and MPLS / BGP and OSPF support ?

Could you please expend the support to VPN IPSEC monitoring ?

regards

Re: trap/incidents attributes (CIA) should be displayed as text not just as OID - Status changed to:

Robert_224 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 07:32:53 GMT

Hi,

My request is not related to a specific MIB

Example trap:

nnmsnmpnotify.ovpl 127.0.0.1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.3.0.4 \

1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.7.11.12.1.1.3.1.1.2 octetstring "Fan 8" \

1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.7.11.12.1.1.3.1.1.3 integer 2

The NNMi shows:

It would be really helpful, if NNMi could write the names of the variables
instead:

snChasFanDescription: Fan8
snChasFanOperStatus: 2(normal)

My second point is, that I would like to use that also on the message text
like:

$oidvarname($2)=$oidtext($2).

A function like $oidvarname would be great to display the NAME of the
variable and not the VALUE.

Hope that clarifies my issue.

Regards,

Robert

Re: InterfacesDownInNode event - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:35:41 GMT

The idea has received an initial review to ensure adherence to our idea submission and community guidelines. More information may be needed at this stage, and we expect the community to help prioritize the idea with comments and community support (votes/kudos).

Re: IPT to co-exist with NNMi in FIPS mode - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:32:53 GMT

Re: trap/incidents attributes (CIA) should be displayed as text not just as OID - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:32:33 GMT

Dear Submitter,

Can you please confirm that relevant MIB was added to NNMi?

Re: Getting ifLastChange status report - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:26:31 GMT

Dear Submitter,

We are not sure on the scale you are talking about but have you tried using Advanced Diagnostics for this use case?

Re: Need to be able to clone enrichment payload filters via the GUI

qz07sg — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:25:04 GMT

It would be great to have a command-line utility for doing this.

Re: Option to exclude content from Comparison Startup/Running - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:21:44 GMT

Re: NNMi-Visio export unreadable - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:19:54 GMT

Re: Need to be able to clone enrichment payload filters via the GUI - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:15:32 GMT

Dear Submitter,

We have multiple places where you can do filtering and apply policies. Can you please provide more details?

Re: NA - set current image as secondary boot image - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:07:24 GMT

Re: NA - Policy complaince Report - differentiate between non complance and check fail devices - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:06:43 GMT

Re: NNMi - Schedule auto discovery at a given time - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:05:23 GMT

Dear Submitter,

you should be able to do demand discovery at certain time once and once that is done, the next discovery would happen at discovery interval from that.

So, if you want a device to get rediscovered at 1 AM, please do a manual discovery of the same at 1 AM once and then onwards the auto-discovery would happen 24 hours from 1 AM which is 1 AM next day.

Please confirm if this works.

Re: NA - New rule should show only applicable rule conditions as per selected device family/driver - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:56:59 GMT

Re: NA-Run specific policy(s) - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:52:29 GMT

As mentioned, the overall compliance status of a device is not meant to be affected by selective policy validation and hence not available.

We can look at enhancing the Policies -> Test Policy Compliance utility to provide an output more like a report which shall help your use case. However, this would not alter the Compliance Status of the devices selected.

Would that work?

Re: PerfSPI Bus adapter must trigger health alarm before it stops to write data

Vesselin Kotaro — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:37:35 GMT

Luckily, the 1GB limit is configurable.

One of my instances is filling the default in less than 2 hours so really no time to react when something happens.

What I want is early notification that CSV processing has stopped so I have enough time to fix it without loosing data.

Need to be able to clone enrichment payload filters via the GUI

heybails1 — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:04:36 GMT

It's very time consuming to constantly have to recreate the same payload filter over and over again inside a single configuration for a trap or a management event. Is there any way that a filter can be created, then copied so that the next filter can simply be edited? This would be great for a single trap producing multiple severities and alarms with long filters.

Thanks

Re: Fix/Update Bundled Documentation in NMC-NNMi-Lin-2019.11.tar.gz

UTBrandon — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:25:22 GMT

Support case was open and was directed to go to IdeaExchange to post for review.

There needs to be a better process to report defects or documentation issues vs. submitting on idea exchange.

-Brandon

Fix/Update Bundled Documentation in NMC-NNMi-Lin-2019.11.tar.gz

UTBrandon — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:22:16 GMT

The upgrade document
interactive_Upgrade.htm

bundled with NMC-NNMi-Lin-2019.11.tar.gz
Refers to upgrading to 2019.05

3.) "Upgrade NNMi to the version 2019.05 by running the installer program on the standby server"
b.) Extract the contents of the NNMi 2019.05 media (or mount the media).
4.) "Upgrade NNMi to the version 2019.05 by running the installer program on the active server"

The offline upgrade document bundled in the download to install 2019.11 was not matching
https://docs.microfocus.com/NNMi/2019.11/Content/Install/install_files/nnmi/NNMi_Upgrade/Content/Interactive_Upgrade.htm

Also the online doc
https://docs.microfocus.com/NNMi/2019.11/Content/Install/install_files/nnmi/NNMi_Upgrade/Content/Interactive_Upgrade.htm
when you select Linux still shows the tip about windows servers.

Option to exclude content from Comparison Startup/Running

BeniG — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:03:59 GMT

Sometimes the vendors are not fully consistent with their output of a running-configuration and the startup-configuration. A few examples:

Device: Nexus7000, Cisco NXOS 8.4(1) => difference in the ordering of the access-list on the vty:
RUN:
line vty
access-class VTY-ACCESS in
access-class VTY-DENY-OUTBOUND out
STARTUP:
line vty
access-class VTY-DENY-OUTBOUND out
access-class VTY-ACCESS in

Device: TH3030S, A10 AX 4.1.4-GR1-P1 => Additional "exit-module" in startup
RUN:
vrrp-a common
   device-id 1
   set-id 1
   enable
STARTUP:
vrrp-a common
   device-id 1
   set-id 1
   enable
   exit-module

Problem: This can lead to wrongly tagged devices with "Startup and Running Configurations differ". Well, not wrongly, but in this case the error can be ignored. Since this usually affects all devices, the devices that have a valid config-diff between running and startup will get lost in the amount of devices.

Proposed solution: Even though this is a device-issue, NA should offer the user a possibility to exclude such details from the comparison. Not deactivation of the whole comparison (e.g. "ignore_startup") but exclusion of individual lines. Like what is in some driver's "cake.snapshot.pattern_diff", but in the GUI.

Best would be to have this as a setting per driver, or even OS-Version.

Beni

Re: Repairing the mplsjboss process when doing the ovstatus

davidsarwono — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 06:59:33 GMT

Hi the previous Case ID are Case SD02567257, thanks for the help and hope to hear any update soon.

Re: Need database field "SRC_TENANT_NAME" in "NMS_QA_CBQOS_POLICY" to support mo

Kim Andre Espeseth — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 09:34:41 GMT

NNM SW Support Case # SD02558583 QoS is not working

Re: NNMi and the iSPI products should run as non-root users - Status changed to: Delivered

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:40:51 GMT

This idea is delivered as part of the NNMi 2019.11 release for NNMi Premium, i.e., NNMi core, QA & NPS. For more details, please look at the documentation at https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Network_Node_Manager_i:2019.11/ReleaseNotes#What.27s_new

Re: Remove interfaces based on aging - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:27:09 GMT

As mentioned, Admin up & Operational down indicates an error condition and should not be considered for Ageing.

I would set up some time to discuss this further with you.

Regards.

Re: Enhance path view tool - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:24:44 GMT

Dear Submitter.

I would suggest raising a support case for this.

Regards,

Re: netpath tool like solarwinds - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:24:03 GMT

Re: NNMi reports for incidents - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:21:18 GMT

Re: NNMi reports for incidents - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:48:01 GMT

Re: Need database field "SRC_TENANT_NAME" in "NMS_QA_CBQOS_POLICY" to support more char's - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:47:22 GMT

Can you please add more details? What there a support case opened for this? If so, please provide the case ID.

Regards,

Re: add Brocade NETIRON CES to the DDP - NNMi - Status changed to: Declined

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:44:45 GMT

Dear Submitter.

Please note that Brocade is already a supported vendor. Please check the specific model in the device support matrix and if the model you are looking for is not supported, please raise a device support case for the same.

Please follow the process outlined at the Idea Exchange landing page, which is:

If the idea is related to a device support request, please fill in the following check-lists:
• For NNMi device support [Download NNMi_Device_support_req.docx from the "Forms / Processes / Docs" section]
• For NA driver support [Download NA_Device_Support_Request_Form.docx from the "Forms / Processes / Docs" section]
• Once done, submit the request HERE, select "Product Enhancement Request" and follow the prompts.

Re: Get the temperature that is triggering TemperatureOutOfRangeOrMalfunctioning in the event - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:41:29 GMT

Re: Temperature, Fan status and IP Address reachability reports in NPS - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:35:07 GMT

Re: Need a command for just extract/list incidents from incident database - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:33:59 GMT

Dear Submitter.

Have you tried the same using NNMi SDK? Using SDK, you can extract the incident given a time range and filters.

Also, there are REST APIs for the same, look at https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Network_Node_Manager_i:2019.11/openkeyincidentsApi

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Re: Need REST interface for NOM/NNMI account maintenance - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:29:21 GMT

Re: To add decimal places to the formatted string send to Netcool - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:28:50 GMT

Re: Have a product wide task to deploy ACL on devices similar to create VLAN task. - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:27:43 GMT

To add decimal places to the formatted string send to Netcool

quesadro — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:03:56 GMT

Customer sends the summary strong to Netcool like this:
High input error rate on $sourceObjectName, $ifAlias. Current value: $cia.thresholdMeasuredValue Threshold: $cia.thresholdLowerBound [Netcool_Filter:$xxxx.device.netcool Mgmt_IP:$xxxxx.device.ip]

The problem is that $cia.thresholdMeasuredValue is showing 0.0 instead of 0.00000007, seems like there is some truncation. Need to know how we can show more decimal places in the summary text we send to Netcool.
==============================================================================

In the current product, there is no configuration option available to set the decimal points precision. A similar problem with the NPS team has been reported. Looks like, the decimal point truncation to 2 places exist everywhere in UI and in NPS reporting too.

Here are ERs raised for the same (check them via MF Support Page)
QCCR1B162547 NNMi bar graphs display bars for lower fraction values but show rounded off zeros as data points for the same.
https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/doc/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/LID/QCCR1B162547

QCCR1B161023 Dashboard table headers are incorrect
https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/doc/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/LID/QCCR1B161023

This is another ER submitted against NNMi SPI Performance for Metrics for the very same requirement.
QCCR1B135216 How to increase a NPS report precision (decimal points)
https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/doc/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/LID/QCCR1B135216

Re: IPT to co-exist with NNMi in FIPS mode

Vesselin Kotaro — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:03:54 GMT

I would extend this to all iSPIs, not only IPT.

Re: Get the temperature that is triggering TemperatureOutOfRangeOrMalfunctioning in the event

Vesselin Kotaro — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:03:03 GMT

Absolute temperature is not always available, hence NNMi reads temperature sensor status from devices. A nice enhancement would be to have temperature readings and temperature thresholds, where available, and push them to NPS for reporting.

Have a product wide task to deploy ACL on devices similar to create VLAN task.

Vivek M S — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 06:51:56 GMT

Today we have a task to delete ACLs and snapshot task can parse and show the ACLs. Behind the scenes each of the drivers handle this for the respective devices with device specific syntax. Similar behavior or task would be useful to deploy ACLs which can be used for cross launch or trigger from NNMi based on certain analysis

Need REST interface for NOM/NNMI account maintenance

tom_santanello — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:51:22 GMT

We need a REST interface for NOM/NNMi account maintenance. Currently, there is no REST interface that we can use with OO to perform NNMI add, modify and delete user like we can with NA. Ideally this capability would be added to NNMi and NOM in order to support mixed-mode deployments. The complete list of capabilities is:

1. Add user
2. Delete user
3. Add user group
4. Delete user group
5. Add user to user group
6. Delete user from user group
7. Add user roles
8. Delete user roles
9. Assign roles to user groups
10. Deassign roles from user groups

Re: Need a command for just extract/list incidents from incident database

jlgarciacamara — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 07:54:05 GMT

We have thousands of events every day, and could be very usefull to export those events without the limits within event browser.

Need a command for just extract/list incidents from incident database

emonzo — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:42:19 GMT

Actually, its possible to list and trace incidents through incident browser, even you can export these list to an spreadsheet. There is also another method but implies conecting directly to the database using Postgres utility 'psql' and this is not recommended. So it could be very useful to have a command for listing and extracting incidents from the incident database that allows to specify a node, view of node group and for an specific time frame.

Re: PerfSPI Bus adapter must trigger health alarm before it stops to write data

ramesh9 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 07:47:25 GMT

Dear

This is an clear indicator on whether NPS is pulling files from NNM shared drive.

Number of files in NNM shared drive will increase if NPS is not processing Component or Interface or QA CSV files.

I suggest it to retain it on 1GB limit.

Temperature, Fan status and IP Address reachability reports in NPS

narkodu — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:59:52 GMT

HI Team

We need Temperature, Fan status and IP Address(not management IP) reachability reports in NPS, however these metrics details are collected by NNMi, but not sending to NPS, can you please enable this option with reports in NPS.

Re: Enhance Printing of Compliance Rules - Status changed to: Waiting for Votes

AkashDeep — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:54:46 GMT

Re: Enhance Printing of Compliance Rules

AkashDeep — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:54:24 GMT

Thanks for clarifying the use case better.