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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

Enable SSL support between LMT and BigFix on DB2

Currently, if you're using BigFix with LMT, on DB2, the only option is to use a non-SSL enabled port for communication. Having any DB2 ports open without SSL is a security issue. While I have seen documentation for how to allow LMT to use SSL, but...
8 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

BigFix / ILMT Upgrade Case Summary and Pre-Upgrade Recommendation

Why is this useful? This enhancement would prevent a common and difficult-to-identify failure during BigFix and ILMT upgrades in environments using a remote SQL Server with Windows Authentication. In this case, the pre-upgrade Fixlet failed becaus...
12 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Publish a single matrix showing ILMT support lifecycle dates for all supported operating systems, including server support, endpoint support, and subcapacity eligibility.

Today, information about operating system support lifecycle in IBM License Metric Tool is spread across SPCR reports, support announcements and subcapacity eligibility documentation. It would be very useful to provide a consolidated matrix showing...
22 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Support for SRG Security Controls

Because its your product and you should support this aspect of it. V-206410 states: Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into a hosted application's data entry field and the hosted application is unprepared to process t...
29 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Provide a feature to configure ilmt scanner for include forlders

For customer with thousands of systems with a moltitude of shared file systems, for scanning optimization, it's easier to include folders than excludes. Sometimes is quite impossible to register folder paths for exclusion when these folders may va...
about 1 month ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Make it so that the service account does NOT have to be a DBO..

In the government space we have security concerns that we have to try and honor. If there could be a way to have the service account that runs ILMT NOT have to be a dbo on the backend SQL database that would be appreciated.
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Folder exclusion fron scan by filesystem type

In large corporate environments, more than 10.000 envs, as the customer scenario is, exclude folders by type, such as nfs and subtypes, is fundamental because for each system there are multiple external and not file system to exclude. When aiming ...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

ILMT scanner in rpm format to be deployed with Red Hat Satellite

Big company, and government company as my customer is, have in place a sw distribution system with Red Hat SATELLITE when having to manage a large number of RHEL systems, in this case about 10.000 now, but more in the future, and they want to use ...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Integration with the vault like Hashicorp Vault for static secrets or dynamic secrets. 

The application stores static, long-lived credentials and API keys either within its database or in an encrypted form on the host system.While encryption provides a level of protection for credentials at rest, the use of static, non-rotating secre...
2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

API using basic authentication

API using basic authentication which is more susceptible to interception and replay attacks. Basic authentication is considered not strong enough for Production environments. Idea: Implement different authentication methods client certificate or m...
2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted