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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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namming, export and import for custom rules

It would be a great help for doucumentation and migration resasons that you can name, import and export custom rules
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 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...
about 1 year 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

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 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Allow suppess/exclude without removing assignments

ILMT wipe out the Cloud Pak assignment, if suppess/unsuppess e.g. findings which assigned to products which assigned to a Cloud Pak. In customer situations it might be neccessary to suppess/exclude some finding temporary to figure out which effect...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

AND/OR cobination with ILMT report subscription

At the moment if using ILMT report subscription there is a OR relationship between "Email on a regular basis" and "Email if number of rows exceeds". This relationship should be a configuable AND/OR relationship, to be able to configure e.g. a repo...
over 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

Extracting the hypervisor host name off the "Server ID" column in the ILMT reporting.

Under the HW reporting, there is a column called "Server ID" which has the vendor name and hypervisor host servername as well in such format See samples below. Server ID Dell Inc. Ephyppw.org.com Nutanix ephyppw.org.com Oracle Corporation sctor...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 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