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IBM Netcool Operations Support Newsletter Q1 2020

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Abstract

Welcome to the Netcool Operations Support Newsletter, one stop shop for everything Netcool

Content

Hot off the Press

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Latest Supported Netcool Operations Insights Products Fix packs and Interim fix packs

Product Fix Pack or Interim Fix Pack Download Link

Omnibus 8.1

Omnibus 8.1 Fix Pack 21

https://ibm.co/2OEqFTS

Omnibus 8.1
Omnibus 8.1 Fix Pack 22
(Due March 2020)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1088164

ITNCM 6.4.2

ITNCM 6.4.2 Fix Pack 9

https://ibm.co/3bWEYwj

WebGui 8.1

WebGUI FP17

https://ibm.co/2v1q6ME

WebGUI 8.1 WebGUI FP17 IF 1

Impact 7.1

Impact 7.1 Fix pack 17

https://ibm.co/2B4aMyg

Impact 7.1
Impact 7.1 Fix Pack 18
(Due March 2020)

TBSM 6.2

TBSM 6.2 Fix Pack 2

https://ibm.co/2vret1y

ITNM 4.2

ITNM 4.2.0 Fix pack 8

https://ibm.co/3bSJwUD

Jazz SM

JazzSM FP005

JazzSM-TCR IF0002

JazzSM-DASH-CP 0001

1.1.3-TIV-JazzSM-multi-FP005 

1.1.3.0-Tivoli-JazzSM-TCR-multi-IF0002

1.1.3.5-TIV-JazzSM-DASH-Cumulative-Patch0001

Log Analysis 

Log Analysis Fix pack 3 

1. We have released version 1.3.6: 
a) For current LA users it will be in the form of a fixpack:

1.3.6-TIV-IOALA-FP000_x86_64 - for x-series
1.3.6-TIV-IOALA-FP000_ppc64le - for p-series
1.3.6-TIV-IOALA-FP000_s390x - for z-series

Please use the following technote for migration guidelines:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1135125
b) For new NOI 1.6..0.x users, the part number to download is as follows: CJ5N3EN
c) For new standalone LA users, the part number to download is as follows: CJ1NIEN
2. To see all the available insight packs for LA, please access the following URL:
https://developer.ibm.com/itom/resources/category/insight-packs/
Predictive Insights Predictive Insights
We have released a few new mediation packs:
Nagios XI V1.4.0 
Zabbix V1.2.0 
To see all the available mediation packs for PI, please access the following URL:
https://developer.ibm.com/itom/resources/category/mediation-packs/

Latest Probe Integration Releases

Netcool/OMINbus Integrations Release Notice - Probe for Message Bus (nco-p-message-bus-11_0)
Netcool/OMINbus Integrations Release Notice - Transport Module Common Integration Library (common-transportmodule-23_0)
Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - Transformer for Message Bus Integration (common-transformer-11_0)
Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - Java Probe Integration Library (probe-sdk-java-12_0)

Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - SNMP Probe (nco-p-mttrapd-21_0)  Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - Netcool/OMNIbus Probe DSL Factory Framework (probe-dsl-framework-6_0)

Netcool/OMNIbus New Juniper Contrail Alert API probe:
Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - System Center Operations Manager 2016 Probe [nco_p_scom2016]
Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - Gateway for BMC Remedy V9 (nco-g-bmc-remedy-v9-1_0)
Netcool/OMINbus Gateway for Cloud Event Management (nco_g_cem-3_0)
Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations Release Notice - Probe for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2016 (nco-p-scom2016-1_0)

Blog Highlights

Category: Netcool Operations Insight

Netcool Operations Insight integrates infrastructure and operations management into a single coherent structure across business applications, virtualized servers, network devices and protocols, internet protocols, and security and storage devices. Read timely news about this product in the blog posts below. Product documentation for Netcool Operations Insights is available at this link.

Product Link 

NOI

Why NOI 1.6 is a game changer

NOI

Netcool

NOI 1.6: capabilities to help you face and embrace new challenges in Operations Management 

ASMs

Finding weak spots with Agile Service Manager

Analytics

Discover how to explore and resolve issues with Netcool Analytics

AIOps

IBM AIOps

AIOps

AIOps – buzzword or life saver?

AIOps

TBSM 6.2

TBSM 6.2: TBSM 6.2 Upgrade to Fix Pack 1 - A step by step example

TBSM 6.2

TBSM 6.2: SSL for TBSM! - TBSM 6.2 Installation and Configuration of SSO and SSL and upgrade to TBSM6.2 FP1 - A step by step example

TBSM 6.2

TBSM 6.2 Installation Guide - Step by step example with all the prerequisites installation and configuration steps including SSO configuration between DASH and Impact

User Groups

Next Function

Join a local IBM User Group

UK Tivoli User Group @ IBM Southbank Thursday May 28th 2020 at 9:30 for 10am

Latest YouTube Videos

Product Youtube Link
NOI/ASM NOI/ASM : ASM Integration with NOI
Netcool Omnibus Netcool/OMNIbus : CEM Gateway configuration
Netcool Omnibus Netcool/OMNIbus : Ipc.Timeout and NetworkTimeout
Omnibus/TCR TCR: OMNIbus Reports Import
Netcool Omnibus Netcool/OMNIbus : KAFKA Gateway and Probe configuration
Netcool Omnibus Netcool / OMNIbus : SOCKET Java Probe and Gateway
Netcool Omnibus Netcool Omnibus : The mttrapd probe and malformed traps
Netcool Omnibus Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 : Rules file examples for event loads
Netcool Omnibus Netcool/OMNIbus probes SSL debugging
Netcool Omnibus Netcool / OMNIbus : Rules file performance tuning
ITNM ITNM 4 2 FP7 update using IM
ITNCM ITNCM_642_Certificate Issue

Webcasts & Events 

Tons of new webcast coming in 2020! Register now

Add Network Performance Insight (NPI) to an existing NOI deployment in an hour Webcast

Watch the Replays

Replay - Installation and Configuration of TBSM 6.2

Replay - Installation and Configuration of NOI: Event Search feature

Replay - Benefits of IBM Netcool Operations Insights for current NetcoolOMNIBus users

Replay - More intelligent operations management using the new release of Netcool Operations Insights 1.6

Replay - Overview of Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI 8.1 User Preferences

Replay - Monitoring hybrid cloud resources with IBM Netcool Operations Insight

Replay - Ask the Experts: Installation and Configuration of TBSM 6.2

Replay - Installation of NOI and Related Event feature

Ask The Expert Replay Webinars with presentation downloads all available on IBM Support TV 

Technical Articles 

WebGUI
ITNCM
JazzSM Products

NPI

How to Integrate NPI into JazzSM DASH when using external CA Certificates

PI/LA
TBSM

Latest APARs

Omnibus 8.1

IJ21017: NETCOOL/OMNIBUS 8.1 : LIBNCRYPT : MTTRAPD PROBE FIPS MODE : SHA256 SUPPORT
IJ22316: PROBE RULES : LIBOPL CAN ABEND WITH DUPLICATE TABLE DEFINITIONS IN THE RULES FILE
IJ20878: OMNIBUS PROBE MEMORY LEAKING WHEN USING THE HTTP INTERFACE

WebGUI 8.1

APAR PH14099 - WEB GUI Users are not synchronized to the ObjectServer when users are assigned roles through a group 

Impact 7.1

IJ16060: IMPACT 7.1 TO MANY OPEN FILES
IJ22067: NETCOOL/IMPACT 7.1 FP 16 - CONNECTION COUNT EXCEEDS THE DATABASEMAX SQL CONNECTION VALUE
IJ21443: IMPACT 7.1: DOCUMENTATION CHANGES FOR ADDING SIGNED CERTIFICATES TO NETCOOL/IMPACT GUI SERVER

TBSM

IJ19803 - TBSM 6.2 Migration fails with TypeError: java.io.InputStreamReader is not a function in eval
IJ22338 TBSM 6.2 REMOVAL OF SERVICE INSTANCES WITH SLA TRACKING DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT DISABLING SLA
IJ20724 TBSM 6.2 While running radshell command addSlaAttributeToTemplate nothing gets updated for the SLA attributes

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Modified date:
04 March 2020

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