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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...
about 4 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

automation of snapshot creation

We would like to automate the creation of the audit snapshot. As this needs to be done at least once per quater it would be nice if this can be automated, either by the tool itself or by a cronjob which may communicate through some API calls
about 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

High Availability for db

I have several customers that want to have the database in a high available constallation so that they can do updates to one side without affecting the usability for the ILMT, which is used every day on their side.
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to force VM Mnager data collection

It appears that VM Manager collections only take place periodically throughout the day. An immediate collection can be forced by running the appropriate script with flag but this not a well documented feature. During installs or trouble shooting, ...
about 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Exadata in ILMT for sub-capacity

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered for Oracle DB with ability to host other software. It would be good if ILMT supported Exadata and Exadata was on sub-capacity eligible list.
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under 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 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT needs to be able to discover systems without an agent

Create discovery tools for both windows and Unix domains that, when provided a super-user account, can reach out to systems in the domain and gather basic data on whether a system has IBM products and *should* or *should not* have the agent instal...
about 6 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT Virtual Appliance

I think IBM should develop a virtual appliance for the License Metric Tool that has everything (to include the database) built into the appliance. The current LMT application is very cumbersome to use especially for organizations that are only run...
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Send notification when the Data Import failed

In order to monitor the data import process by monitoring systems, it will be useful to Send notification when the Data Import has failed.
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

IBM Software Install Dates

While working with IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT), we encountered one of the possible modifications critical to Software Asset Management and that is the inclusion of IBM Software Install Dates. ILMT does not provide installation dates at the mome...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

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