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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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Ability to edit and remove a tag completely from ILMT

Instance tags can be defined using the classification panel via procedure: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool?topic=reports-adding-removing-tags However, a typo in a tag can not be changed once it is been added. A created tag can also...
11 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT support on Openstack (RedHat) Hypervisor

We are migrating our environment from vCenter / ESXi to Open stack based virtualization environment, to get sub capacity benefits we unable to see option to configure VM Manager Tool for Openstack, Need IBM’s assistance for enhance VM Manager Tool...
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Generate and send out a save report on demand

Hi, in my customers environment a bunch of software reports are saved and sent out in frequent times so the responsible persons can check for their relevant installs. For compliance and verification of an update of LMT the customer requests a fres...
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

Make the Task "Run Capacity Scan on Virtualization Hosts " able to use libvirt service when it's deployed on a Container

Task "Run Capacity Scan on Virtualization Hosts " isn't relevant on hypervisors because the libvirt service, instead of being installed on the Hypervisor itself, is running inside a Docker Container running in the Hypervisor. According to Openstac...
8 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

automation of snapshot creation

We would like to automate the creation of the audit snapshot. As this needs to be done at least once per quater it would be nice if this can be automated, either by the tool itself or by a cronjob which may communicate through some API calls
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Install new ILMT Scanner versions via REST API

Today disconnected scanners have to upgrade manually. It should be possible to upgrade them during the result upload process, depending onto a user right (“Manage_Upgrades”) and together with a date/time for the upgrade due to customers change man...
5 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Functionality already exists

ILMT report export should contain the schedule information

It is possible to export and import ILMT reports via REST API but their schedules will not be exported an imported with them. Today, deleting a n ILMT user, lead to the deletion of all his reports as well as the related schedules. Having a backup ...
5 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Provide BigFix fixlets to install ILMT Disconnected Scanners onto BigFix Client Systems for ILMT Lite Migration or mixed BigFix / ILMT Lite environments

Today a lot of my customers migrate from a BigFix ILMT environment to ILMT Lite. Therefor it would be helpful to have IBM ILMT Fixlets, e.g. “Install Disconnected Scanner”, “Uninstall Disconnected Scanner” which allows to install a Disconnected Sc...
5 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Planned for future release

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.
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Provide an complete overview of all parameter within ILMT disconnected scanner setup (confiog) file setup_config.ini

Within the setup_config.ini file there are only the "basic" configuration parameters. Within the ILMT documentation you will find some addional paramerter which can be set, e.g PUBLIC_CLOUD_TYPE to identify systems on public clouds. These paramert...
5 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Under review