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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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...
over 7 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

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

Create a feild to have tokens expire and notifications sent in advance that they will expire in 30 days.

Having a field for token expiration will allow the tool to track this in an automated fashion vs manually tracking. The token can have an expiration period chosen when requesting or regenerating it based on the security requirements for my company...
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

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...
11 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

Discover Un-Managed Asset Using ILMT.

Very often especially in a midsize + organization where server assets are all over the places and managed by different teams. It is very hard for the SAM team or even the infrastructure team to know where all the server assets are located and mana...
over 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Add a setting to limit user sessions to the WebUi

We have STIG requirements that we try and follow. One requirement is to limit the number of sessions a user can have open. This feature appears to not currently be available in my version and so I would like to request that you please try and add ...
12 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

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

ILMT as Docker container

Would it be possible to provide ILMT as a Docker container ?
about 7 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration