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Using ILMT to track MQ licence usage - upgraded components not showing up in product usage

  • 1.  Using ILMT to track MQ licence usage - upgraded components not showing up in product usage

    Posted Thu February 29, 2024 08:34 AM
    Edited by Stephen Dunne Thu February 29, 2024 09:05 AM

    Hi there

      Having some problems getting a pair of upgraded MQ servers appearing in ILMT with the correct information

    Background

      We have 2 MQ servers that were upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 late last year. These are running on vmware VMs that are being scanned by VM manager as well as reporting via bigfix

    These are the reoccuring actions bigfix has for these (and other) servers that report to ILMT

    The two VMs have been scanned in the last week

    but when I look at the ILMT web UI to check PVU subcapacity for the "IBM MQ" product they don't show up at all unless I change the default filter "Discovery End" date to be prior to the date of the last MQ upgrades. This, coupled with the fact that when I do this I see the old MQ version being reported, suggests to me that the new installs are simply not being detected/reported correctly to ILMT

    As you've probably guessed I'm pretty new to administering ILMT; is there a troubleshooting walkthrough I could be pointed at to help identify what's going wrong and how to fix it

    E2A:

      Further digging with ILMT, in particular looking at "Report->Computers" and drilling down to the "Software implementations" report actually shows the correct MQ version of 9.2 and with a "Discovery Start" of 3rd Nov 2023 which I assume is when it was next scanned after the upgrade

      so I suppose the questions are:

    1) why isn't this showing up with the default filter which only appears to go back three months ?

    2) Why when I modify the filter to make these VMs show up under PVU Subcapacity for  "IBM MQ" are they reporting an older version of MQ than we're actually report to ILMT ?

    Stephen



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  • 2.  RE: Using ILMT to track MQ licence usage - upgraded components not showing up in product usage

    Posted Thu February 29, 2024 09:32 AM

    Figured it out. When the software version changes you have to reassign the install to the correct product from our catalog. With that missing step performed the usage reports look as expected



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