IBM License Metric Tool

IBM License Metric Tool maintains an up-to-date inventory of your infrastructure software assets, hardware information, and ensures enterprise license compliance.
ILMT shows what software you have, where it is, and how it is used. It also helps you understand your license consumption.
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ILMT: Infrastructure Administrator

This roadmap helps you learn the skills of License Metric Tool Infrastructure Administration. You learn how to deploy and troubleshoot ILMT, customize reports, and migrate to the latest ILMT version.


ILMT Foundations

These courses teach basic concepts related to the ILMT infrastructure.

Deployment

These courses teach how to install and configure the infrastructure components.
BigFix Inventory/IBM License Metric Tool: Keeping the tool current
Foundational
ILMT and BFI Open Mic: Install or upgrade to version 9.2.8
Foundational
IBM License Metric Tool / BigFix Inventory v 9.2.5 and IBM i
Foundational
Configuring ILMT 9.0 with Active Directory
Intermediate
Installing ILMT 9.2 on Windows
Intermediate

Reporting

These courses teach how to customize reports
ILMT and BigFix Inventory: Customizing and saving reports
Foundational

Troubleshooting

These courses teach you how to perform basic troubleshooting tasks in your ILMT environment.
Q&A: Troubleshooting BigFix SUA & ILMT v9
Foundational
IBM LMT and BigFix Inventory Open Mic webcasts
Foundational

Migration

These courses teach you how to migrate from the License Metric Tool and Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.x
Q&A: ILMT 9.0 - Migration from 7.5
Foundational
Migrating from TAD4D to BigFix Inventory
Intermediate
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ILMT Software Asset Manager

This roadmap helps you learn the skills of License Metric Tool Software Asset Management. You learn how to create custom software signatures, customize reports, calculate license metric utilization, and perform basic ILMT troubleshooting tasks.


Configuration

These courses teach how to create custom software signatures.
Introduction to Software Catalog Concepts
Foundational
Customizing the BigFix Inventory Software Catalog
Intermediate
Managing BigFix Inventory Customer Signatures
Intermediate

Reporting

These courses teach how to customize reports
ILMT and BigFix Inventory: Customizing and saving reports
Foundational

Licensing

These courses teach how to calculate license metric utilization.

Troubleshooting

These courses teach you how to perform basic troubleshooting tasks in your ILMT environment.
IBM LMT and BigFix Inventory Open Mic webcasts
Foundational
Configuring ILMT 9.0 with Active Directory

In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure the IBM License Metric Tool for authentication with Microsoft's Active Directory.

9m      Intermediate
Installing ILMT 9.2 on Windows

This course covers steps in installing ILMT 9.2 on a Windows platform.

  1. Installing MS SQL Server
  2. Generating License with License Genarator
  3. Installing IEM
  4. Subscribing to LMT Fixlet
  5. Installing LMT




   Intermediate
Introduction to Software Catalog Concepts

This video presents an overview and introductory explanation of Software Use Analysis and a detailed explanation of software catalogs.

   Foundational
LMT Open Mic: How to run a successful report (2017-12-14)

In this Open Mic session, Les Popow answers the question "OK, I have IBM License Metric Tool installed, so now what?" with a demonstration of the tasks needed to produce an accurate audit report.

1h       Intermediate
Preparing the environment and licenses for IBM LMT 9.2.5 All-in-One installation

This video is a recording of an Open Mic session that provides information about preparing the environment and licenses for the All-in-One installation of License Metric Tool.  

9m      Intermediate
Q&A: ILMT 9.0 - Migration from 7.5

This is a recorded Question and Answers session prepared by ILMT Central Team regarding the migration from the IBM License Metric Tool v7.5 to v9.

1h       Foundational