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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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

Too many root emails from crontab about ILMT

The following entry was placed in the crontab of the "root" user on Linux systems:0 22 * * 5 /var/opt/ansible/GTS/CIT/scan_aic.sh /var/opt/ansible/GTS/ILMT It litters the mailbox with the following messages: ===From: "(Cron Daemon)" root@hostname....
7 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

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

ILMT Support to Autoscaling

I have a suggestion for enhancing ILMT's functionality. It would be beneficial if ILMT could support scale sets, auto-scaling, or similar setups to prevent issues with duplicate entries in reports. My idea is to implement a rule where you can spec...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Needs more information

ILMT to be able to capture and report on actual compiler execution times from SLM tags

Right now ILMT reads SLM tags from the servers for IBM XLC compilers - but only averages out compile times to a 24 hour period. This means it is not useful for IBM compiler concurrent user license tracking. SLM tags has been documented as the new ...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

Improvement for CIT scanner and wscansw of LMT

LMT scans for software signatures etc via the CIT Scanner and wscansw process.When the software scan is running, it is somehow traversing all the directories andscanning for all files. If the scanner would collect the number of files and their siz...
about 7 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration