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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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Automate obfuscation (anonymization) of server name, computer name and IP address for audit snapshots

Often clients are hesitant to share their real server names, computer names and IP addresses in the audit snapshot as these data are deemed confidential. To send an audit snapshot that meets their business and data confidentiality criteria, they h...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Planned for future release

GUID added to report functionality

There is an urgent requirement to have the “Signature GUID” with in the ILMT (Software Classification), which is necessary to have the GUID used to determine if an installation record might be a duplicate of an existing record. Requesting to incor...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Discover Un-Managed Asset Using ILMT.

Very often especially in a midsize + organization where server assets are all over the places and managed by different teams. It is very hard for the SAM team or even the infrastructure team to know where all the server assets are located and mana...
almost 4 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT needs to be able to discover systems without an agent

Create discovery tools for both windows and Unix domains that, when provided a super-user account, can reach out to systems in the domain and gather basic data on whether a system has IBM products and *should* or *should not* have the agent instal...
over 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Provide Licence Reporter for Kubernetes

Currently we have a couple of Kubernetes cluster running various IBM software products. At the moment we need to "collect all license reports" of all clusters manually. What is a pain. Automating the process by using the IBM licence reporter is no...
6 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Discovering software on shared disks, Optimized mode - Automatic scanning of remote shared disks: allow the evolution of the servers on which to discover the software installed on the shared disks and in particular allow the removal of servers on which to discover the software installed on the shared disks

The Optimized mode - Automatic scanning of remote shared disks method does not seem to work correctly when you no longer want to scan shared disks on a server. I launched the Discover Remote Shared Disks action on a set of servers which creates an...
over 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Ability to consume licence data from License Server Reporter

We use ILMT and Licence Service Reporter to monitor our PVU and VPC licences with the majority of our licences being PVU. It would be good to be able to send the audit snapshots from License Service Reporter to ILMT so that we can make full use of...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

ILMT REST API be able to edit a supress/exclude comment of an instance

Hello, We want to modify the comment of a line already excluded or deleted with the method : PUT https://hostname:port/api/sam/v2/software_instances https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool?topic=v2-classifying-software#put_software...
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration