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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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ILMT report export should contain the schedule information

It is possible to export and import ILMT reports via REST API but their schedules will not be exported an imported with them. Today, deleting a n ILMT user, lead to the deletion of all his reports as well as the related schedules. Having a backup ...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Provide an complete overview of all parameter within ILMT disconnected scanner setup (confiog) file setup_config.ini

Within the setup_config.ini file there are only the "basic" configuration parameters. Within the ILMT documentation you will find some addional paramerter which can be set, e.g PUBLIC_CLOUD_TYPE to identify systems on public clouds. These paramert...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Not under consideration

reasign reports

If you delete a ILMT user account all reports will be deleted. It should be possibne to reasign the reports to another user account. Exporting / importing thze reports might not be an option becaus the possible "attached" report email optione will...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

multiple select deletes of ILMT reports

It's possible to add a huge ammount of reports to ILMT via REST API, but if you like to delete the reports via ILMT GUI it's one possible to deletre them one by one. Pleas add a multiple select delet to the ILMT GUI.
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Add the remaining setup_config.ini parameters to the lmt_inventory_template.yml for the Disconnected Scanner

There are already several of the Parameters from the setup_config.ini file in the lmt_inventory_template.yml but not all. Most notably for our implementation are the LMT_SERVER_URL and the CURL_PARAMETERS parameters. These should be added to the l...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

transport of IBM support data from disconnected scanner

In case of problems (errors) on ILMT disconnected scanners you have to go to the system to collect support (log) data of the disconnected scanner. This might be a problem if the ILMT Lite administrator has no direct access to these systems. Why no...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Planned for future release

namming, export and import for custom rules

It would be a great help for doucumentation and migration resasons that you can name, import and export custom rules
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

multi select for metric custom field on all metric an subcap reports

Metric custom fields can be iuntegrated within all metric an subcap reports on ILMT REST API. If integrating with SAM tools you can provide e.g an date filed shown the validation of the software classification. The issue is that you have to do thi...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Admin REST API

To automate ILMT via Scripts it will be useful to have an administration REST API to create / recreate the ILMT database create / remove ILMT users create / remove / update ILMT datasources start an ILMT import login to ILMT
about 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

Autimated decomission information in ILMT

you will be able to decomission systems automatically but it's not possible get get information out of ILMT which systems a decomissionen e.g. during the last week timeframe.
about 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration