The Story at a Glance
A state government enterprise, managing a wide range of IBM software across multiple agencies, needed to ensure ongoing license compliance through IBM’s License Metric Tool (ILMT). Due to the complexity of ILMT setup and the challenge of producing accurate PVU Subcapacity reports across isolated networks, they engaged CleanSlate for help. CleanSlate installed and configured ILMT v9.2, aligning with IBM best practices, and enabled accurate license reporting across five agencies—ensuring compliance and providing a reliable licensing foundation moving forward.
What Had to Change
The client currently leverages a large suite of IBM software solutions to provide the various platforms and applications required to support its internal and external applications. The IBM software solutions span across a large portion of the client’s infrastructure and are deployed across several servers within the enterprise.
The client needed assistance with set up and configuration of ILMT to maintain IBM License compliance across several state agencies with varying technical difficulties. They found that ILMT was complicated to install and configure, and needed assistance with IBM PVU Subcapacity reporting. Specifically, each agency needed to know their exact PVU License usage and, thus, reached out to CleanSlate for assistance.
How CleanSlate Responded
CleanSlate installed and configured ILMT to the latest version, following IBM’s best practices and documentation, to ensure accurate PVU Subcapacity reporting, and worked with network admins to ensure proper communications between agencies, and performed software classification in ILMT to generate accurate PVU Subcapacity reports.
What Changed
CleanSlate was able to install ILMT to latest available version, which enabled successful ILMT Scans and reporting for approximately 40 servers residing in different agencies, each within isolated networks. CleanSlate also successfully produced Sub-capacity reports for 9 IBM products across 5 state agencies, which helped ensure that the State of Nebraska are within their entitled software limitations.
CleanSlate and the client installed ILMT v9.2 to maintain IBM compliance and provide a stable platform.
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