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My ideas: IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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Install / update /delete disconnected scanner with ILMT

Today after installed a disconnected scanner onto a client no updates, reconfiguartion, or deletion is possibe without working on the cliens directly or using tools like software distribution, e.g. Ansible, puppet etc. A new designed disconnected ...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create audit snapshot scheduled report

We use the scheduled reports in ILMT to simplify reporting. One of the reports we require usually every quarter is the audit snapshot and currently this can't be scheduled to send this report. Is it possible to add an option to allow the creation ...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

REST API to generate Audit Snapshot report

Would like to have the ability to generate the Audit Snapshot using a REST API as we are handling multiple accounts within ILMT utilizing different Computer Groups. Having an API to trigger the generation of the Audit Snapshots would help gather e...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

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
almost 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 4 Future consideration

Generate and send out a save report on demand

Hi, in my customers environment a bunch of software reports are saved and sent out in frequent times so the responsible persons can check for their relevant installs. For compliance and verification of an update of LMT the customer requests a fres...
about 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

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

ILMT support for Nutanix Prism Central?

I see that support for Nutanix has been recently enabled, but currently only supports APIv2. Our Nutanix environment uses Prism Central(APIv3) and the vendor is looking at deploying APIv4. Will support for Prism Central(APIv3) and above be forthco...
almost 5 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Future consideration

Send notification when the Data Import failed

In order to monitor the data import process by monitoring systems, it will be useful to Send notification when the Data Import has failed.
7 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration