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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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Discovering software on shared disks, Optimized mode - Automatic scanning of remote shared disks: allow the evolution of the servers on which to discover the software installed on the shared disks and in particular allow the removal of servers on which to discover the software installed on the shared disks

The Optimized mode - Automatic scanning of remote shared disks method does not seem to work correctly when you no longer want to scan shared disks on a server. I launched the Discover Remote Shared Disks action on a set of servers which creates an...
over 3 years 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT as Docker container

Would it be possible to provide ILMT as a Docker container ?
over 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

support for Huawei Fusioncompute hypervisor

increasing demand
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Always show Timestamps as Timestamps within ILMT

Within ILMT Tiemstamps will sometimes not show up as timestams within ILMT, eg. "Last Seen", Descovery End" etc. Inststead the valus will be "about a month ago", "about 10 hours ago". This is confusing my customers. You hav to export the report co...
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT Support for Open Stack API to get Sub Capacity data

Currently ILMT does not support Open Stack (Redhat) environment and the API is not supported. This is limiting us to get sub capacity benefits and request IBM to consider this and prioritize to add the support for Open stack API environment in VM ...
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

possibility to remove invested LDAP user account after lockout

using the "add multiple OUs to the search base for "User roles can be inherited from directory server groups" will ceate a user account within ILMT during lockon with thge AD user. This user will not be removed or marked as removed during th elock...
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

add multiple OUs to the search base for "User roles can be inherited from directory server groups"

conmfiguring the LDAp for the " User roles can be inherited from directory server groups " functionality only allow one OU within the seach base for LDAP. Therefore the seach base root for the LDAP users an group must be above the OUs for the user...
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Not under consideration

REST API for resource utilization

It would be great to retrieve the data which ILMT collects under https://<ilmtserver>:9081/sam/expanded_usage_fact_reports via REST API in a same way like the license usage data. A wide range of IBM software products is licensed with other m...
almost 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

Include Hypervisor host in ILMT UUID filtering configuration

When processing multiple Hypervisor instances such as VMware there is the possibility of duplicate UUIDs between VMware instances although the UUID is unique within a single VMware instance. Including the Hypervisor instance in the filtering proce...
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration