IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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  • 1.  Running ILMT disconnected scanner with non-root user

    Posted 03/26/26 09:15 AM

    Hi there

    I am trying to configure the disconnected scanner to run under a non-root user as per security best practices and company policy.

    I have successful software scans but hardware scans are failing silently somewhere in the process and causing VM Manager to not get imported to ILMT due to servers missing UUIDs in the Partition ID column of the Hardware Inventory report.

    Has anyone successfully implemented this? Any insight would be much appreciated.

    Thanks



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    Mark Taglieri
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  • 2.  RE: Running ILMT disconnected scanner with non-root user

    Posted 03/27/26 05:48 AM

    This is not doable.
    hardware scan needs to root account to collect data from SMBIOS (UUID/SerialNumber etc.)



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    Thank you,
    Oktawian

    Oktawian Powązka, L3 Support
    IBM License Metric Tool
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  • 3.  RE: Running ILMT disconnected scanner with non-root user

    Posted 03/29/26 06:02 PM

    Thanks for the reply.

    Could we have scans run once under root to collect the SMBIOS inform and then have all future scans under a non-root user?



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    Mark Taglieri
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  • 4.  RE: Running ILMT disconnected scanner with non-root user

    Posted 04/01/26 07:48 AM

    I don't see how this could be conducted.
    By default, the hardware/capacity scan is repeated every 30 minutes.



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    Thank you,
    Oktawian

    Oktawian Powązka, L3 Support
    IBM License Metric Tool
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    Original Message