<span style=" font-size:11pt">This update introduces a new way of updating
the PVU table and includes the following key features:</span><p style="■;margin-Bottom:16px"></p><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>IMPORTANT: New way of updating the
PVU table</b><br>Starting with this application update, the PVU table is delivered only
with the installer of the License Metric Tool server. To stay up to date
with the quarterly updates of the PVU table, upgrade the License Metric
Tool server. Regular upgrade of the server ensures correctness of reporting
by maintaining currency of elements such as the PVU table, the software
catalog and the license calculation logic.<br>Due to the new way of delivering the PVU table, the Metric Table Upload
panel is removed from License Metric Tool. It is also not possible to upload
the PVU table to older application updates of License Metric Tool as the
table is no longer published externally.<br>In rare cases, when you cannot upgrade the License Metric Tool server but
you need to align the PVU table with the latest values, you can manually
change the PVU per core value. For more information, see the License Metric
Tool documentation. </span><span style=" font-size:12pt"><br></span><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b><br>Benefits:</b> Simpler process of staying up to date and ensuring currency
of all elements that are required for accurate reporting.</span><li></ul><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Enhanced dashboard: new and updated
statuses for improved overview of infrastructure and scan health</b><br>The following changes are introduced on the License Metric Tool dashboard:</span><span style=" font-size:12pt"></span><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>NEW:</b> The <i>Delayed Data Upload</i>status is added to the Deployment Health widget. It is displayed for computers
that have not uploaded new data to the License Metric Tool server for more
than 10 days. </span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>NEW:</b> The <i>Old Scanner Version</i>status is added to the Deployment Health widget. It is displayed for computers
on which the scanner should be upgraded.</span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>NEW:</b> The <i>Outdated Scan</i>status is added on the Capacity Scan Health widget. The status is displayed
for computers on which capacity scans are failing or have not been scheduled.<strike></strike></span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>UPDATED:</b> The <i>Missing Scan </i>status
on the Software Scan Health widget is updated. It is now displayed for
computers on which the last successful software scan is older than 40 days.
</span></ul></ul><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Benefits:</b> The dashboard
provides a better overview of scan and infrastructure health allowing for
quick identification of issues. </span><p style="Ï+E;margin-Bottom:16px"></p><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Improved way of declaring software
entitlements</b><br>The following enhancements are introduced on the Products & Metrics
report to facilitate declaring and updating software entitlements:</span><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">You can set and clear software entitlements
for multiple products.</span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">You can view and edit software entitlements
per computer group. </span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">Due to a close correlation between importing
part numbers and setting software entitlements, part numbers are now imported
on the Products & Metrics report.<br>Because of this change, the Part Numbers Upload panel is marked as deprecated
and no longer in use. It is also no longer necessary to run the import
to have the newly uploaded part numbers to take effect.</span></ul></ul><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Benefits:</b>The Products & Metrics report becomes the single place for easily managing
your software entitlements, both through importing part numbers and manually.
The fact that it is no longer necessary to run the import for the new part
numbers to take effect improves the operational efficiency of License Metric
Tool.</span><p style=";margin-Bottom:16px"></p><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Enhanced control over endpoint updates:
new way of distributing software catalogs</b><br>For a few years, all IBM software is discovered by using ISO tag files.
Thus, updating the software catalog on the endpoints is rarely needed,
typically only to resolve defects in signatures for older products. To
limit the amount of work related to updating the software catalog, the
following improvements are introduced:</span><span style=" font-size:12pt"></span><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">The software catalog is no longer sent
by the License Metric Tool server to the endpoints. The catalog is embedded
in the scanner and thus it is updated with every upgrade of the scanner.
It allows for full control of the update process and limits the amount
of changes on the endpoints.</span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">Software catalogs are embedded in the
disconnected scanner package. It is no longer necessary to download the
catalogs separately.<b><br>NOTE: </b>Due to this enhancement, the <i>Outdated Catalog</i> status is
removed from the dashboard and is replaced by the <i>Old Scanner Version</i>status.</span></ul></ul><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Benefits:</b> The
need to update the endpoints is reduced.</span><br><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Support for new platforms and virtualization
technologies</b></span><span style=" font-size:12pt"> </span><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">Alibaba Elastic Compute Service</span><li><span style=" font-size:12pt">Disconnected scanner on Red Had Enterprise
Linux 8 on zSystems</span><li><span style=" font-size:11pt">You can install the License Metric Tool
server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 or a higher 8.x version. It does
not apply to the All-in-One installation as BigFix does not yet support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.</span><li></ul></ul><ul><li><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Security enhancements</b><br>For more information, see: </span><a href=https://ibm.biz/LMT_security_enhancements><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:blue"><u>Security
enhancements</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:11pt">.</span><li></ul><p style="€µ♪®µ♪Œ+E;margin-Bottom:16px"><span style=" font-size:11pt">Other
important changes:</span></p><ul><li><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New"><b>computer_health_status</b></span><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>association</b><br>The </span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">computer_health_status</span><span style=" font-size:11pt">association is added to allow for retrieving information about computer
health through REST APIs</span><span style=" font-size:12pt"><br> </span></ul><br><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Action to take</b><br>To learn how to get the application update and deploy it as well as to
view the full list of new features and APARs that were fixed in this application
update, see: </span><a href=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/Inventory/start/c_release_notes.html><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:blue"><u>Release
Notes</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:11pt">.</span><br><p style="€µ♪®µ♪Œ+E;margin-Bottom:16px"><span style=" font-size:11pt"><b>Questions</b><br>If you have any product-related questions, post them on the License Metric
Tool forum: </span><a href="https://ibm.biz/LMT-support-forum"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:blue"><u>https://ibm.biz/LMT-support-forum</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:11pt">.
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