ILMT-Maintaining Your IBM Business Software Environment- Allbluesolutions.com

1. ILMT: Maintaining Your IBM Business Software Environment Nowadays, IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) is unavoidable for any IBM customer, and the major advantage of having ILMT is that it aids you to lower license and support costs simply by taking advantage of sub-capacity licensing and basically paying only for what you are using, and not the full capacity of the processor. On the other hand, having ILMT installed in your system is not at all enough, as IBM requires you to maintain your ILMT environment and to provide systematic (quarterly) audit reports on request and keep the process of sending audit reports for at least a time period of two years or so. As a result, our discussion provides you with details of what you should pay attention to if you want to have a complete and accurate ILMT environment and report which will be accepted as “sub-capacity eligible” in case of an IBM audit. Completeness:- To avail a complete ILMT sub-capacity report one must come up with an updated information regarding every IBM software deployment within their infrastructure. If most of the deployments are properly registered in ILMT then, at the time of an audit, your report gets validated by comparing it with other reliable data sources. Apart from this, the ILMT report must include regular scans of the virtual infrastructure. Thus, to conclude, it is normally based on the most current version of ILMT. Only after all of the above parameters are being met, your ILMT report is considered complete. It might be obvious, but any incomplete information for example like missing a software deployment, can generally lead to incorrect license reporting which in turn leads to financial risks. (Read More) Follow US