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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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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

ILMT Support on OEL operating System

ILMT is not supported on Oracle Linux Operating System. It is a license measuring tool, we have IWS installed in our environment on all OEL (Oracle Enterprize Linux) servers, however the measuring tool (ILMT) does not support OEL. Team, could you ...
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Needs more information

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

Cron schedule entries created under user "root" instead of "/etc/cron.d/"

Ideally it should be created under "/etc/cron.d/" to be compliant and upkeep of cron jobs
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 4 Future consideration

Generate and send out a save report on demand

Hi, in my customers environment a bunch of software reports are saved and sent out in frequent times so the responsible persons can check for their relevant installs. For compliance and verification of an update of LMT the customer requests a fres...
about 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

IBM ILMT - In case of moving the VM, the PVU shows unexpected value due to ServiceNow computer_system_id filtering.

Problem:In case of moving the VM in between the ESX server, the PVU shows unexpected value on license_usage API and is causing ILMT integration with ServiceNow to be failing Using sample case: Machine: VM1 It's shown up on license_usage.txt/ licen...
10 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Create a feild to have tokens expire and notifications sent in advance that they will expire in 30 days.

Having a field for token expiration will allow the tool to track this in an automated fashion vs manually tracking. The token can have an expiration period chosen when requesting or regenerating it based on the security requirements for my company...
11 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

ILMT support for Nutanix Prism Central?

I see that support for Nutanix has been recently enabled, but currently only supports APIv2. Our Nutanix environment uses Prism Central(APIv3) and the vendor is looking at deploying APIv4. Will support for Prism Central(APIv3) and above be forthco...
almost 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Unattended installation

Should help Continuous integration and Deployement environments
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration