Limitations

This solution has the following limitations:

• Only the AMD64 / x86_64 architecture is supported for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Message Bus Probe.
• Logstash integration is verified on IBM Cloud Private 3.2.0 and IBM Cloud Private 3.2.0 on Red Hat OpenShift 3.11.
• CEM and Prometheus integrations are verified on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 with IBM Cloud Platform Common Services 3.2.3 and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with IBM Cloud Platform Common Services 3.2.4.
• There are several known limitations when enabling a secure connection between probe clients and the server:
  • The required files in the secret must be created using the nc_gskcmd utility.
  • If your ObjectServer is configured with FIPS 140-2, the password for the key database file (omni.kdb) must meet the requirements stated in the following IBM Documentation page: Creating a key database using nc_gskcmd.
  • When encrypting a string value using the encryption config key file (encryption.keyfile), you must use AES_FIPS as the cipher algorithm. AES is not supported.
  • When connecting to an ObjectServer in the same cluster, you may connect the probe to the secure connection proxy which is deployed with the IBM Netcool Operations Insight chart to encrypt the communication using TLS but the TLS termination is done at the proxy. It is recommended to enable Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) in Service Mesh on OCP to secure cluster data network communications.
• Secure connection with external event sources (outside of the cluster) through Ingress is not supported.