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

IBM VM Manager integration with Nutanix Prism Central V3 and above

IBM VM Manager integration with Nutanix Prism Central V3 and above, as its currently has an integration with Nutanix V2 only
5 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to exclude dirs in IBM disconnected scanner

The IBM i software scan currently takes over 30 minutes to complete due to the large size of the filesystems. By excluding directories that do not contain IBM software, we can reduce the scan time and lower the system utilization required to run t...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Functionality already exists

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

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
about 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Save / Load parameter for install disconnected scanner fixlet

Today if implementing disconnected sanner via the Bigfix fixlet all parmeters have to be set manually for a group of systems to build a customized setup_config.ini file. It would be nice to save this “setup_config.in“ file so that it can be import...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Centralized scans for disconnected scanners

When implemetion disconnected scanners a local scheduling (MS task scheduler, UNIX/Linux contab) will be setup. Nevertheless the most customer have to monitor the scan / upload jobs via some kind of monitoring tool, e.g. Nagios. Because all client...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

Build a virtual folder (tres) structure with tagging for reports

Organizing a large number of reports within ILMT is challenging. Today it‘s only possible using the ILMT filter technoglogy. The have the disadvantage that you have to go the the filter structure again and again to get the report.
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 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.
about 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration