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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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) 4 Future consideration

More tagging necessary, tagging for all classifications should be possible

As for internal documentation reasons as well as discussions with IBM it would be super benefitial to be able to add additional information during the process of classifying software in ILMT. I am wondering why this is not possible but only possib...
8 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Under review

limit the number of logon sessions

The application must provide a capability to limit the number of logon sessions per user.
8 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Display a logoff message

The application must display an explicit logoff message to users indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions
8 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

ILMT Playbooks with big inventory

In our organisation over 10,000 servers are reporting to ILMT, it does consists of different OS, Regions etc. But the inventory that we use to collect results for ILMT consists over 4000 servers. The problem (although technically it is not a probl...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 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...
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 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...
9 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review