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Workspace IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Support Bigfix REST API token authentication

Hello, the ILMT server connects to the Bigfix server during a ILMT data import. This is done via the BigFix data source that is added to ILMT.

As per the following documentation the data source is setup by specifying the credentials of the user that can access the BigFix server database and the credentials of the BigFix Console Operator that you created while installing BigFix (by default, IEMAdmin).

See steps 2.e and 2.f

Adding a data source

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool/9.2.0?topic=sources-adding-data-source

This is the only way to add a data source in ILMT for BigFix. There are no other options available.

Starting from version 11.0.6, BigFix also supports token-based authentication, which can be used to access the BigFix Server REST APIs, the BigFix Explorer REST APIs and the IEM CLI tool, as an alternative to Basic Authentication. The token name is shown only to its owner and it has a specific validity period.

We would like to avoid basic authentication for A2A and we are asking to support in ILMT also token authentication when creating a Bigfix data source.

Idea priority Medium

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