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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

Support for SRG Security Controls

Because its your product and you should support this aspect of it. V-206410 states: Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into a hosted application's data entry field and the hosted application is unprepared to process t...
5 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Provide a feature to configure ilmt scanner for include forlders

For customer with thousands of systems with a moltitude of shared file systems, for scanning optimization, it's easier to include folders than excludes. Sometimes is quite impossible to register folder paths for exclusion when these folders may va...
13 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Support for the OpenStack Nova VM manager for KVM hypervisors

We use virtual machines hosting IBM products on KVM virtualization hosts. These virtual machines are managed by OpenStack Nova, which is not currently recognized by ILMT. Therefore, capacity data must be collected via a BigFix action executed dire...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Enhance ILMT functionality to display subcapacity shared pool values for virtual machines hosted on VMware.

Proposal: Enhance ILMT Functionality to Display Subcapacity Shared Pool Values for VMware-Hosted VMs As ILMT (IBM License Metric Tool) is a critical component for software asset and license management, particularly in virtualized environments like...
11 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

Directory Exclusion for Software Scans on IBM i

The ability to exclude directories from software scans, already supported on Windows and Unix/Linux, is also of value on IBM i. Excluding directories containing a large number of files will reduce scan duration, Currently, this option is not avail...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

CPU Threshold Optimization with Cache performance

Usefulness - Restricting a hard CPU usage cut-off value for wscansw service ensures that the controls set in place are followed and does not end up exceeding CPU usage. This will help in appropriate functioning of other applications along with ILM...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Make it so that the service account does NOT have to be a DBO..

In the government space we have security concerns that we have to try and honor. If there could be a way to have the service account that runs ILMT NOT have to be a dbo on the backend SQL database that would be appreciated.
26 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Folder exclusion fron scan by filesystem type

In large corporate environments, more than 10.000 envs, as the customer scenario is, exclude folders by type, such as nfs and subtypes, is fundamental because for each system there are multiple external and not file system to exclude. When aiming ...
26 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

ILMT scanner in rpm format to be deployed with Red Hat Satellite

Big company, and government company as my customer is, have in place a sw distribution system with Red Hat SATELLITE when having to manage a large number of RHEL systems, in this case about 10.000 now, but more in the future, and they want to use ...
28 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

Improvement in disconnected scanner logging

Disconnected scanner primarily benefits IT administrators. Enhanced logs provide the detailed return codes and diagnostic data needed. When disconnected scanner fails to scan or upload packages, enhanced error codes and detailed activity trails le...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted