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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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 ...
about 9 hours ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 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...
24 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

Integration with the vault like Hashicorp Vault for static secrets or dynamic secrets. 

The application stores static, long-lived credentials and API keys either within its database or in an encrypted form on the host system.While encryption provides a level of protection for credentials at rest, the use of static, non-rotating secre...
17 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

API using basic authentication

API using basic authentication which is more susceptible to interception and replay attacks. Basic authentication is considered not strong enough for Production environments. Idea: Implement different authentication methods client certificate or m...
17 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

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...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Under review

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) 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...
2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Future consideration

Support for Nutanix API v4

Would like to add support for Nutanix API v4 as the legacy API deprecation is planned for end of CY2026. While the depreciated APIs will not be removed, they will no longer be supported and not recommended for use after they become depreciated.
7 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Planned for future release

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...
27 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted

User provisioning for SSO Users

Organizations would benefit from the ability to authenticate users via SSO and perform user authorization (roles) using LDAP/AD. We setup ILMT to authenticate users via SAML (SSO) and have a directory server (LDAP) configured with user provisionin...
27 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) Submitted