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Jan-Klaas Kesteloot

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Product Owner for Data Acquisition & Control Plane, IDP, PTP

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Alexander, I’m pleased that many people are enthusiastic about this concept, but I'm afraid this is not available yet. In fact, this concept is in an early stage and I'm afraid there are no timelines...

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Hi Juan, you can change the default timeout of 30 minutes by setting the Request Maximum Duration to a different value in the tab Admin > Discovery > Settings. Feel free to consult Discovery |...

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Hi Mieke, To my knowledge, information events are automatically cleared as soon as they are generated. This would also mean there's no active alarm tree for an information event, and -as a result - it...

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Hi, you probably have "CI Type" = Unknown, because the discovery operation for the CI Type is disabled, or no CI Types exist on the system, or the discovery identifiers for the CI Type are not correct...

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Hi Pramod, the DataMiner IDP app allows users to take or restore configuration backups from any device. Additionally, it also has the mechanism to update software images. The latter typically concerns...

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Hi Andy, DataMiner IDP will start including process automation activities in the near future (exp. Q1 2021). One of these activities is to run a discovery. This activity will generate tokens for the discovered...

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Mieke, you need to have a STANDBY action in the service definition. Process Automation currently requires post and preroll window, with the corresponding action defined in the service definition.

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Hi Sofia, When you reference a GitHub repository, the script artifact is retrieved from the Catalog and the GitHub URL is used as a reference to retrieve it. Your package will contain the script as a...

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Hi, I don't know why the SetParameter would fail, but you should know that that the ID of the element (running on top of the service) is not the same as the ID of the service. It typically equals the Service...

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Hi Thijs, I'm afraid there's no visibility on a ETA when external systems can push data into Data API. Although your approach is probably not the best to handle loads from production systems, it does...

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The IDP activities were initially designed as resource-related tasks for PA versions prior to 1.3. They possess unique interface specifications distinct from the current IN and OUT standards recommended...

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I would start by looking at the queue element(s), specifically the one to which the token is sent. is the token listed in the incoming table? do you have entries in the registration table? do you...

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Hi Ive,, the latest IDP version 1.5.1 contains exactly what you need. You can download it here: IDP | Catalog (dataminer.services) The release notes haven't been published yet but will soon be available.

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Hi Marian, you can use DataMiner IDP to scan your network and provision the elements. After you've installed DataMiner IDP, you can start a discovery with the built-in SNMP discovery profile. Given the...

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Hi, you want to link the IDP element on a specific page on IDP's Visual Overview. On the shape which links to IDP,  you can use the shape data Page and than specify the visual page you want to link to....

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The notices in the alarm console are because the Ticket Manager and Service Manager are licensed on the agent, but no Elastic database is configured. Both these modules require an Elastic database. These...

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Hi Jens, you can remove a CI type from IDP in the following way: In the IDP Application, navigate to Admin > CI Types > Overview Click Edit... next to the CI type you want to delete. In the...

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There is a good article in the DM User Guide for this. I also remember having to do the following: the certificate needs to be valid for the FQDN (an exact match or valid for the domain the server is...

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In case you upgraded to MySQL 8.0, please note the remark on Setting up an offload database | DataMiner Docs regarding setting the local_infile variable to 1. Can you try this?

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Hi Ana, a mediation layer protocol supports tables in the sense that you can link a table from the mediation protocol to the table in the device protocol. There's a section about tables in DataMiner Mediation...

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Hi Jeroen, The placeholder [IPAddress] represents the IP address the device has used when replying to the discovery requests. This it the placeholder you would use on a typical connection (like the Serial...

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You will need to have LLDP information from both devices. On a given element A,  LLDP (like any layer 2 discovery protocol such as CDP) will give you the remote information (remote chassis id, remote...

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Indeed, the Protocol MIB does not seem to contain an OID which maps the Overall Element Status (or any other General Parameters).

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DataMiner Help indeed lists conditions to show the accepted IP addresses : https://help.dataminer.services/dataminer/#t=DataMinerUserGuide%2Fpart_2%2Felements%2FAdding_and_deleting_elements.htm&rhsearch=accepted&rhhlterm=accepted&rhsyns=%20...

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Hi Didier, I'm afraid the information in the catalog for this connector might be misleading. Because the connector "Juniper Networks Manager (DMS-DRV-1216)' is indeed used to integrate directly with Juniper...

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Hi Thomas, it's an interesting use case to visualize OSFP neighborships using DCF and the node-edge component. And in fact, that would be technically possible. If the connectors for routers contain the...

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Hi Ross, I'm afraid I cannot reproduce the issue on 1.1.15-2116: an imported element does show up in the tab Inventory > Unmanaged. If the imported elements were previously managed by IDP on the...

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Hi Jens, DataMiner IDP does not offer a health check to see if the Process Automation (PA) Framework was correctly configured. However, what the IDP setup wizard will do is the following : Create a...

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Hi Mieke, in order to resolve this you can try changing the end time by clicking on the button Adjust Time. That worked for me in the past in a similar situation. Alternatively, you can turn to the Client...

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There's a specific overview of Media Nodes supporting NMOS on the AMWA website.

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Hi David, In order to retrieve the Grandmaster Identity, it's also required to have the connector Standard PTP Device. This connector is included with the PTP application package. But if the working site...

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DataMiner PTP 1.1.4 (and later versions) is available in the catalog as a private item exclusively for Skyline. End users do not have access to this item because the application is not free to use. To...

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Hi Lucas, Thank you for attending Empower. It's great to see that you are continuing with Data API and scripted connectors! Data API is provided by a DxM with the same name, and scripted connectors are...

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It appears you're encountering an issue similar to what's described in the Run-time assembly binding section of the DataMiner Docs. This could be due to the NuGet package in your connector depending on...

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Indeed, the monitored state next to the parameter (when using the mediation layer view) is defined by the underlying alarm template. I would also expect that the trending can be viewed through the mediation...

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Hey, there's a specific permission in system center to install packages. Search for 'packages' in the list of permissions and you should find it. This not only governs deployments of packages from catalog,...

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After the installation of IDP First, you will need to create CI Types (via the tab Admin > CI Types). For convenience, you automatically generate CI types for the connectors on your system. Alternatively,...

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You should be able to create custom properties by clicking on the cogwheel and than click 'add'. These properties will then show up in the tab Properties when you create the element. In your first screenshot,...

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As a general remark, please be aware of the performance degradation you risk to have if your table holds 500k rows. So I'd like to challenge if there's really a need to save the table or can it be made...

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The source and replication DMA must use the same DataMiner version. (source: Replicated elements | DataMiner Docs). Otherwise, you can run into unexpected issues affecting the replicated elements or the...

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Thank you for sharing your question! After provisioning elements with IDP, you have the option to allocate them to a rack through the Admin > Facilities tab. This process also allows you to create...

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