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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

Display a logoff message

The application must display an explicit logoff message to users indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions
6 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Under review

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

Feature Request HCL BigFix with ILMT: Deactivate BigFix Client UDP Port 52311

We would need a functionality to deactivate the BigFix client UDP port 52311 that is accessible from the network on all machines that have the BigFix client installed. An open Port that could potentially enable an attacker to inherit root privilge...
7 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Under review

Feature Request HCL BigFix with ILMT: Supporting BigFix client is running an non root with sudo

We would need a functionality to to run BigFix clients an non-root user with sudo functionality. This has to be supported by IBM for valid ILMT reports/audits. Running a Linux/Unix deamon with root privileges is considered a security risk in our c...
7 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Under review

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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Future consideration

Vmm Tool connection ID to be included in the VM Manager Report

Vmm tool connection ID should be included in the VM Manager report in ILMT. This can help monitor and track duplicate vmm tool connection IDs - although there is a disclaimer in the documentation, users still copy vmm tool config files to new vmm ...
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 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
over 4 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Future consideration

Report for obsolete operation systems

Today customers have to look at the IBM subcapacity terms and conditions page to find out which operation plattforms and version as well as which hypervisiors and version are not subcapacity elegible anymore or will be removed soon, s. https://www...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Planned for future release

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

Multiple (disconnected) datasources, disconnected scanner config setup_config.ini, REST API

Some of my customers using an existing ILMT Lite environment with one disconnected datasource and want to extend that with additional disconnected datasources to split the systems, e.g. the integration of DataPower system installations and “normal...
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Planned for future release