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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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Install / update /delete disconnected scanner with ILMT

Today after installed a disconnected scanner onto a client no updates, reconfiguartion, or deletion is possibe without working on the cliens directly or using tools like software distribution, e.g. Ansible, puppet etc. A new designed disconnected ...
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

SSO / MFA Setup enables for Entra (Azure AD)

We have the requirement to Setup SSO / MFA on ILMT tool with SAML authentication of Entra (Azure Ad) which is currently not being offered by IBM in existing version.
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

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...
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

ILMT Playbooks with big inventory

In our organisation over 10,000 servers are reporting to ILMT, it does consists of different OS, Regions etc. But the inventory that we use to collect results for ILMT consists over 4000 servers. The problem (although technically it is not a probl...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Do not allow multiple sessions

Application management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an application. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is helpful in limiting risks related to DoS attacks.
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

schedule automatic audit report

have the ability to schedule automatic audit reports it is necessary to do it for the audit so it should be automatically possible
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Add Hypervisor Proxmox VE to the supported Hypervisors

Proxmox VE is a full featured enterprise virtualisation based on KVM. It is not using libvirt, so no existing ILMT/KVM integration can be used. Proxmox has a REST-API that should allow a simple integration into ILMT.
almost 4 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

ILMT to be able to capture and report on actual compiler execution times from SLM tags

Right now ILMT reads SLM tags from the servers for IBM XLC compilers - but only averages out compile times to a 24 hour period. This means it is not useful for IBM compiler concurrent user license tracking. SLM tags has been documented as the new ...
11 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Use of BigFix Inventory as datasource for ILSR

Hello together, we bought BigFix Inventory back when it was an IBM product at a customer, in order to manage our IBM license compliance. Now, with ILSR it seems that only ILMT is a supported datasource. I would like to have BigFix Inventory utiliz...
6 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Submitted