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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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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...
about 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Would like ILMT to support "Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication" for the database connection

We moved ILMT to the Azure cloud and had to have ILMT use a local SQL Server account to access the TEMA database because it did not support "Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication"
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future 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.
about 1 year 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Future consideration

Installation only package for disconnected scanner

ILMT should support installation only pakages for disconnected scanner. Background: A lot of my customers installing ILMT Lite with disconnected scannner for security reasons, like: no access to the Internet (BigFix Fixlet Server) no admin access ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Support MS SQL Server Listener

MS SQL Server supports availability group listener to access HA cluster only by the listener name instead hostname an instance. To support this it is necessary to modifiy the JDBC connection string as well as the ILMt conficuration (server.xml, da...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Admin REST API

To automate ILMT via Scripts it will be useful to have an administration REST API to create / recreate the ILMT database create / remove ILMT users create / remove / update ILMT datasources start an ILMT import login to ILMT
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration