ILMT Offline installation for VMware reporting

Hi

We run a shared VMware platform for customers and have been asked to perform offline reporting against the VMware platform that their VMs run on. I have been trying to find out info on what is required but it all seems a bit sketchy.

Can anyone provide an install procedure just for the offline part so we can provide the ILMT report needed? A suggested platform to run it on would help as well please…

Thanks

So your goal is to install LMT and create a report for part of the VMWare environment that you are hosting?

Hi

We are expecting to run the scanner to report against the VMware platform, and then provide the resulting report manually.

As far as I know, the ILMT server is already installed but does not have access to the Hypervisor management network.

Sorry, I’m a complete ILMB/BigFix newbie :frowning: but thanks for looking.

You got BESClient(BigFix agent) deployed on all managed VMs?

Yes I believe so, it is only the offline VMware scanning we need to achieve.

Not sure what you mean by offline scanning…

This is what I was told…

Here is the documentation to support the principles of disconnected scans together with instructions on downloading the scanner package. It looks as though the easiest thing will be to download the scanner package for the correct environment as explained on the second link below. It is possible to access the download directly from the BigFix web site but cleaner to get it as part of ILMT.

Note that it is only the VM Manager scan which is required on the underlying hypervisor not the software scan.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/Inventory/planinconf/c_disc_sys_main.html

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/Inventory/planinconf/t_disc_sys_downloading.html