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IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition 4.1.1 Fix Pack 1, 4.1.1-TIV-ITNMIP-FP0001

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Abstract

This fix pack is a cumulative fix release and addresses APARs and internally found issues since the release of Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition 4.1.1

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Summary of the Enhancements included in this Fix Pack.
OSDB Support 
 - SuSE 11 (x86-64) SP2 / SP3
TIP, Browser & JRE support 
- TIP version 2.2.0.15
- Web GUI 7.4 Fix Pack 3
- Firefox 31 ESR, Internet Explorer 11
- Client JRE : Oracle JRE 1.8
Several enhancement to ITNM Agents, including :
 - RFE 27745 - Cisco Nexus 7000's Multiple Instance Support
 - RFE 60367 - Wrong Topology due to missing Cisco Nexus Support
 - RFE 44256 - Discover Cisco Nexus IP Addresses
 - RFE 41898 - Nexus 7000 and 5000 telnet agent support
 - RFE 20180 - Discovery support for ZTE M6000, T1200 and T600 Physical Inventory.
 - RFE 28742 - VLAN Discovery support for ExtremeSwitch version 12
 - Link Aggregation Group (LAG) discovery - Support for Link Access Groups ALU5620SAM Collector
 - Checkpoint firewall support
-  HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 Collector.
 - Juniper QFabric support in Juniper Box Anatomy agent.
 - Cisco Nexus support
 
Additional enhancements:
  - Fix pack rollback support
  - Improved polling capabilities
  - Binding a domain to a network interface controller (NIC)
  - Discovery option for sub-interfaces to inherit unmanaged status
  - Improved Oracle RAC connection capabilities
  - LTE support added for the Discovery Library Adapter (DLA)
  - Improved root-cause analysis (RCA) capabilities
  - End to End Search feature

For full details about the above enhancements, installation information, and known problems in Network Manager 4.1.1 Fix Pack 1, download the attached 4.1.1_README_FP0001 file
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http://www-01.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliNetworkManagerIPEdition.html 

Go to the following link to retrieve all technotes for version 4.1.1 of Network Manager:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/search.wss?tc=SSSHRK&q=technote+4.1.1

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Summary of fixes in Network Manager V4.1.1 Fix Pack 1
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APAR Headline
IV38120UCD-SNMP-MIB IS NOT RETURNING RESULTS
IV43184NAT ADDRESS SPACE IS NOT POPULATED CORRECTLY.
IV44515MIB GRAPH LOSES COLLECTED MIB DATA
IV45912JUNIPERENTITYCONTAINMENT STITCHER ADDED-SOME  INTERFACES WOULD MISSED OUT WHILE   RESOLVING TO THE CORRECT CONTAINMENT.
IV47318ASSOCADDRESS AGENT ISSUE-ITNM ASSIGNED WRONGIP ADDRESS INTO INTERFACE,WHERE THE WRONG IP ADDRESS IS A BROADCAST ADDRESS ENDING WITH
IV50295VLAN DATA WHERE VLANID GREATER THAN 999 FAILS TO BE DOWNLOADED
IV50389EVENT GATEWAY DOES NOT READ AND LOAD SUCCESSFULLY RCA PLUG-IN SCHEMA CHANGES UPON EXECUTION OF HUP SIGNAL.
IV52337ITNCM ITNM DEVICE SYNCH FAIL TO RUN
IV54682MISSING STACKED ENTITY INFORMATION ON CISCO DEVICE
IV55436IPV6 ADRESS REDISCOVERY NOT WORKING WITH PING FINDER
IV55990VLAN INTERFACE MARKED AS UNMANAGED DESPITE HAVING AN IP
IV56382ITNM_POLLER.PL SHOULD HONOR DOMAIN NAME PASSED AS ARG WHEN SEARCHING CHASSIS OR INTERFACE ENTITYID.
IV56431CISCOMPLSSNMP AGENT PERFORM TELNET DISCOVERY WHEN FAILED TO OBTAIN CISCO SNMP PW DATA
IV56672CREATETRUNKCONNECTIONS STITCHER COULD GENERATE DISCO CORE WHEN DEALING WITH CORRUPTED DATA
IV58749MIBGRAPH GRAPH REFRESH INTERVAL SETTING DIDN'T UPDATE
IV59066KNP_POLL_DATA_COLLECTION VIEW DOESN'T ACCOUNT FOR NULL IP_ADDRESS.
IV59641NCP_G_EVENT CORES WHEN PROCESSING RCA FOR SPECIFIC EVENTS.
IV59646RFE43142: ENHANCE TO HAVE SUB INTERFACES UNMANAGED IF PRIMARY INTERFACE IS UNMANAGED.
IV60125NCP_VALIDATE_NCIM_TABLES.PL NEWLY INTRODUCED IN FP4 FAILS RUNNING AGAINST MYSQL DB.
IV60136LLDP AGENT CAN'T GET THE NEEDED DATA FROM D-LINK DEVICES
IV60293NCP_POLLER IS FAILING ON BAD PING REQUEST LIST
IV60422NETWORK VIEWS URL DOES NOT WORKING AFTER RESTART TIP.
IV60452EXAMPLE RAN collector - MISSING INFORMATION ABOUT ENTITYNAME CONVENTION
IV60481ITNM COMPOSITE TRENDING REPORT NOT RETURNING DATA
IV60527AN UNEXPECTED COMPONENT IS DISPLAYED IN THE STRUCTURE BROWSER BY IPV6 CSV COLLECTOR DISCOVERY
IV60593UNABLE TO SETUP 2 FILTERS FOR A NETWORK VIEW
IV60634DLA CAN'T RETRIEVE THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO FILL OUT THE BACKPLANE OBJECT.
IV60742LAYER 2 CONNECTIVITY IS MISSING IN SOME VIEWS
IV60747IFADMINSTATUS NOT POPULATED WITH ALCATEL5620 COLLECTOR
IV60777DISCOSWITCHSNMP AGENT NOT INTERROGATING CISCO NEXUS 7K
IV60992ITNM CORE (E.G. NCP_MOEL) AND ITNM GUI SET THE TIMESTAMPS INCONSISTENTLY RESULTING 0 NODES IN NETWORK
IV60992NCP_MOEL AND ITNM GUI SET THE TIMESTAMPS INCONSISTENTLY RESULTING 0 NODES IN NETWORK VIEWS
IV61063SECURITY APAR :ITNM IS AFFECTED BY APACHE STRUCTS ADVISORIES
IV61201BIRT REPORT 'DEVICES WITH NO CONNECTIONS' RETURNS INCORRECT RESULTS
IV61266AFTER RUNNING FOR SOME TIME, NCP_CONFIG EXITS UNEXPECTEDLY AND CREATES A CORE FILE.
IV61404ITNM SNMP LINK STATE POLL NOT POLLING
IV61467WHEN LOADING WEBTOOLS VIA HTTP LOAD BALANCER THE RESULT IN THE BROWSER IS PLAIN HTML CODE
IV61678ERROR IN HEALTHVIEW (AEL) AS WELL AS EXCEPTION WHEN REGISTERING NETWORKVIEWTREE
IV62350UNIPERMXGROUPTELNET AGENT FAILS TO HANDLE DEVICES WHEN SYSNAME OF REMOTE DEVICE CONTAINS ONLY LOWER CASE LETTERS
IV62278CISCO NEXUS MULTIPLE INSTANCE SUPPORT USING SNMP CONTEXT
IV62564AGENTS MISINTERPRET IPV6 ZONED ADDRESSES
IV62673NCP_DLA.PROPERTIES MISSING MANDATORY PROPERTY "NCP.DLA.DATASOURCE.NCPGUI.SCHEMA"
IV62693PERFORMANCE: STRUCTURE BROWSER TAKES LONG TIME TO SHOW THE  DEVICE STRUCTURE OF A BIG DEVICE
IV62853NCP_MODEL HANGS CAUSING OQL QUERIES TO TIMEOUT AND KEEPING FURTHER  TOPOLOGY UPDATES FROM BEING PROCESS
IV62890CISCOSWITCHTELNET AGENT FAILS TO INSTANTIATE SUCCESSFULLY CISCO65XX (CISCOWSC6513) DEVICES RUNNING
IV62920NETWORK VIEW FILTERED VIEW FILTER IS INCORRECTLY PARSED
IV63213MISCELLANEOUS MEMORY IMPROVEMENTS FOR NCP_DISCO PROCESS
IV63434NETWORK VIEW EVENT FILTERED VIEW CONSTRUCTS WRONG TRANSIENT WEBTOP ENTITY FILTER
IV63806INTRODUCTION OF A NEW CHECKPOINTCONTEXT AGENT.
IV63797CISCO NEXUS MULTIPLE INSTANCE SUPPORT USING SNMP CONTEXT
IV63813INTRODUCTION OF AN AGENT TO RETRIEVE SERVER DETAILS FROM A CLIENTS TIVOLI DATA WAREHOUSE WHERE THEY ARE RUNNING ITM
IV64842USING_DISCO_PROCES.PL SCRIPT TO START AND STOP PROCESSES VIA NCP_CTRL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE A DEADLOCK
IV65238G ROUP AND USER NAME ATTIBUTE IN SECURITY FILTER DO NOT WORK
IV65963CRIVSTITCHERRULENESTED.CC ERROR IN  ADDAVAYAENTITYCONTAINMENT STITCHER
IV66025 WARNING MESSAGE IN NCP_DISCO LOG,  CANNOT CAST ATOMIC VALUE FOR M_INSTANCEUPTIME TO TYPE 32-BIT INT
IV66188GENERIC TREND DRILL DOWN REPORTS REQUIRE INTERFACE INDEX
IV66452ITNM GUI TEST FIX JARS ARE NOT SIGNED WITH UPDATED MANIFEST FILE
IV66534DUPLICATED VC ID OF PSEUDOWIRES
IV66555NCP_DISCO FAILURE IN SUBNETTOIPLAYER WHEN CALLING FINDSUBNETFROMINTERFACE
IV66671NCP_MODE LOG/TRACE WARNING ON UPDATING TABLE CONNECTSPEEDS
IV66919TOPOLOGY INFORMATION DOES SHOW UP FOR THE  HUAWEI NODES
IV67032SWITCHFDBTOCONNECTIONS COMPILED STITCHER TAKES LONGER TIME TO COMPLETE DURING DISCOVERY
IV67266IFPHYSADDRESS DATA INCORRECT WHEN USED IN AN EVENT
IV67447ITNM_POLLER.PL FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS FOR THE -POLLER OPTION
IV67587COLLECTORINVENTORY AGENT IGNORES 'SERIALNUMBER' VALUES IN COLLECTOR ENTITY DATA.
IV67949RIGHT CLICK TOOLS IN "LINK" CONTEXT THROWS AN EXCEPTION WHEN  CROSS DOMAIN IS USED.
IV69083IN LARGE DOMAIN ENVIRONMENT, NCP_MODEL FAILED TO START
IV69105RCA ISOLATED SUPPRESSION FAILS TO WORK WHEN THERE ARE TWO EVENTS ON THE EXACT SAME INTERFACE WHEN THERE IS ALREADY AN EVENT ON AN UPSTREAM ENTITY DOING ISOLATED SUPPRESSION.
IV69340TOPOLOGY NOT TRANSFERRED FROM MODEL TO NCIM IF LINGERTIME IS SET TO 0 IN MODELSCHEMA.CFG
IV69363SLOW RETRIEVAL OF DNCIM DATA TO SEND TO MODEL IN BROADCASTCHANGES CODE
IV69475RESTART DISCO PROCESS OPTION ON BUT DISCO FAILS TO START  WITH SOLID DB ERROR
IV69620ON RESTART MODEL SHOULD CHECK FOR (AND FIX) MISSING DOMAINMEMBERS ENTRIES IN NCIM
IV69622ITNM RCA SHOWING INCORRECT RESULTS - A LINK FAILS BETWEEN TWO DEVICES, THERE SHOULD BE ONE ROOT CAUSE AND ONE SUPPRESSED EVENT, BUT IN SOME CASES BOTH EVENTS ARE SHOWING AS ROOT CAUSE.
IV69770NODEBS HAVE SOME SPECIFIC EXTENDED ATTRIBUTES THAT ARE NOT BEING POPULATED IN THE XML BOOK
IV70678FIND IN MAP TOOL (HOP VIEW & NETWORK VIEW) NOT WORKING WITH DBV9.7
IV70708ZTE ZXR10 SERIES (M6000. T600, T1200) CONTAINMENT (RFE20180) SUPPORT ADDED
IV70711DEVICES NOT CLASSIFIED IN NETWORK VIEW TREE CORRECTLY - AOC FILE UPDATES
IV75002The IBM cert used to sign the applet jars expired this year. NETWORK VIEWS JAVA APPLET CERTIFICATE EXPIRED 28TH JUNE 2015

Prerequisites

__  Ensure there is approximately 1 GB of free space on the drive on which the product was installed.
__  Upgrade to Web GUI 7.4 Fix Pack 3 and TIP 2.2.0.15 if Internet Explorer 11 or Mozilla Firefox 31 (ESR) will be used.
__  Take appropriate backups of your system.
__  Install the required database schema updates for the fix pack.

Full details on installation prerequisite for this fixpack can be found in the 4.1.1_README_FP0001 file. 

Installation Instructions

__  Extract the fix pack image as the same user who performed the original Network Manager 4.1.1 installation.
__  Run the Network Manager IP Edition 4.1.1 Fix Pack 1 installation script from the directory containing the fix pack installation files.
__  Check the installation logs for errors.
__  If Tivoli Common Reporting is being used as a reporting tool, perform additional installation tasks to update the network management reports.
__  For non-root installations, perform additional installation tasks.
__  Copy the new version of the CleanSystem file to correct location.

Full details on installation for this fixpack can be found in the 4.1.1_README_FP0001 file.

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 June 2018

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