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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

Offline entries removal from Resource Utilization report

Offline entries appear in Resource Utilization Report in ILMT console. When we hover the mouse over the entries, the message appears - This agent was deleted. Please see the attached screenshot for error. As checked with IBM support, by design, t...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

Notifications for ineligible virtualization technologies

The "To Do List" should display an action required to upgrade the hypervisor version when hypervisors not eligible for sub-capacity licensing are identified. The action should hyperlink to a page listing affected hypervisors as well as a hyperlink...
about 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Notifications for ineligible OS versions

The "To Do List" should display an action required to upgrade the operating system version when operating systems not eligible for sub-capacity licensing are identified. The action should hyperlink to a page listing affected machines as well as a ...
about 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Support for Oracle Exadata in ILMT for sub-capacity

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered for Oracle DB with ability to host other software. It would be good if ILMT supported Exadata and Exadata was on sub-capacity eligible list.
over 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Impement timestamp columns to do a better scanb health check within ILMT (Lite)

For more precise scan health checks it would be great to implement timestamp columns for use within ILMT reports, especially for ILMT Lite. The following columns form scanner_status.yml should be impemented:last_sw_scan_timelast_sw_scan_success_ti...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Not under consideration

Start supporting ILMT on other flavors of RH Linux such as Centos/Rocky.

Help alleviate license cost for another server. Rocky is downstream from RH so why is it that it would not be supported? Maybe even Amazon Linux.
over 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

change the report used in the PVU Subcapacity screen on overview page

We create a report that will show the last 30 days of the PVU utilization. and this report we are saving in the network. But in the overview page always show the last 90 days. So could we have a way to change the report that show the information t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT Virtual Appliance

I think IBM should develop a virtual appliance for the License Metric Tool that has everything (to include the database) built into the appliance. The current LMT application is very cumbersome to use especially for organizations that are only run...
over 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Need a better solution to modify this vmm_communication_locked setting in the vmmconf_#######.properties file.

When there is an issue communicating to the hypervisor host server as defined and managed by VM Manager Tool after a number of attempts, the vmm_communication_locked will set to true value inside a referenced vmmconf_###### .properties file. This ...
about 4 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Future consideration

Save / Load parameter for install disconnected scanner fixlet

Today if implementing disconnected sanner via the Bigfix fixlet all parmeters have to be set manually for a group of systems to build a customized setup_config.ini file. It would be nice to save this “setup_config.in“ file so that it can be import...
about 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration