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The following enhancements were made to the functionality for V2.1:
- Addition of contract management, including linking to licenses.
- Addition of many-to-many association between licenses and products.
- Addition of support for different levels of compliance.
- Enhanced privacy policy support.
- Addition of maintenance support for runtime server downtimes.
- Addition of setting entitlement at any level: product/version/release.
- Addition of setting report queries at any level: product/version/release.
- Enhanced software detection capability based on new signature types (OS
and registry keys) and a new model (signature for inventory and for monitoring).
- Addition of J2EE modules used to identify web applications running on WebSphere Application Server for monitoring purposes.
- Automation of serial number retrieval from agents.
- Addition of support for direct catalog management using the administration
server interface.
- Recognition of IBM products coded in Java(TM)
- Addition of new reports to the reporting facility.
- Addition of commands to the command line interface.
- Addition of support for disconnected use.
- Addition of roles for a broader spectrum of task definitions. The roles
for IBM Tivoli License Manager version 2.1 are:
- Super Administrator: with access to all of the Web
UI tasks
- Administrator: with access to all of the Web UI
tasks, with the exception of account and organization management
- Procurement Manager: with access to the Web UI tasks
related to the creation of licenses and contracts
- Software Resources Manager: with access to the Web
UI report tasks to better define software resource requirements
- License Administrator: with access to the Web UI
tasks related to license assignments and product compliance
- System Resources Manager: with access to the Web
UI report tasks to ensure system resource are running correctly
- Procurement and Licensing Manager: with access to
the Web UI tasks that are related to creation and assignment of licenses,
creation of contracts, and compliance of products
- Usability enhancements to the Web UI.
- Usability enhancements to the online assistance provided by the Web UI.
- Serviceability enhancements, including improved tracing and diagnostic
tools.
- Scalability enhancements, including databases, services, and background
tasks.
- Functional enhancements to the reporting facility.
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