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October 20, 2017 | 8.9.02 enhancements | Enhancements available in this release:
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April 17, 2017 | 8.9.01 enhancements | Enhancements available in this release:
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September 23, 2016 | Enhancements available in this release:
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BMC Network Automation 8.9.02 provides the following enhancements:
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Standalone BMC Network Automation updates
The following table describes the standalone BMC Network Automation system updates included in this release:
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Device and device adapter enhancements | |
Populating End of Life (EOL) data for Cisco devices | Device vendors regularly publish EOL bulletins for an equipment they support. The bulletins indicate that you need to replace or upgrade that equipment within a reasonable time. BMC Network Automation can help remind you to do this by flagging such devices and populating EOL dates for these devices. For more information, see Populating End of Life data for Cisco devices. |
Updates in the device adapters for better readability of configuration files | The device adapters for Cisco ACI, Cisco ACI- Tenant, VMware NSX, vShield App, and vShield Edge have been updated to properly indent the XML content that is stored in their configuration files. The indentation is achieved by including the new attribute, Note: This indentation introduces some discrepancies when comparing configuration files generated after version 8.9.02 against those generated before. If you want to avoid discrepancies, revert to the text processor included in earlier versions. However, BMC recommends to mark the 8.9.02 configuration as the trusted configuration. |
Security enhancements | |
Changes in the communication between an SSH client and BMC Network Automation SSH proxy server | For enhanced security, support for the following weak algorithms has been removed from the SSH proxy server:
For the supported algorithms in version 8.9.02, see SSH proxy. |
Enhanced password encryption | For password encryption, now 128-bit salts are used instead of 64-bit salts. |
diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 (key exchange algorithm) available only in non-FIPS mode | In version 8.9.02, diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 is available only when the FIPS mode is set to false because this algorithm is weak and vulnerable to the LOGJAM security vulnerability. For information about supported algorithms in version 8.9.02, see Agent and device communication over SSH. |
Control over the type of files to be uploaded in BMC Network Automation | With this release, you can control the type of files you want to be uploaded in BMC Network Automation, as follows:
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Job enhancements | |
Copy failed jobs | Now, you can create copy of a failed job with only those actions that failed to execute on devices. For more information, see Viewing the jobs listing. |
Performance enhancements | |
Thread pooling in reports | In version 8.9.02 of BMC Network Automation, the content for the following reports is generated using multiple threads running in parallel, rather than a single thread, to improve their performance:
1 For the Discrepancy Summary and Change Summary reports, only the report version which includes per-device details along with the overall summary while exporting or emailing, uses multiple threads. For more information, see Thread pooling in reports. |
Alternate home page for the BMC Network Automation GUI | If you typically have many devices (thousands) in a discrepancy state, and the display of your dashboard on the BMC Network Automation GUI takes a noticeable amount of time to display, you can alter the webappAlternateHomePage global property to set it to true. The true value causes the event list page to be the home page. For more information, see Alternate home page for the BMC Network Automation GUI. |
Population of memory cache during system startup | Memory cache of the associations between combo group keys and their constituent device keys is now populated during system startup in the background, instead of on demand, as and when the associations are first needed during running of the system. In versions earlier than 8.9.02, on demand population of this cache might cause a noticeable delay in loading certain pages, for instance, the first time when you try to view the details page for a device. |
Installation enhancements | |
Database isolation level check (for SQL Server only) | The installation program now verifies that the |
GNU C Library version check | The installation program now verifies whether the required version of GNU C Library is installed. For more information, see Installing the application server on Linux. |
Platform support | |
New operating system support | With this version, BMC Network Automation supports Ubuntu Linux version 16.04. For the complete operating system support information, see OS support. |
New database support | Starting from version 8.9.02, BMC Network Automation supports PostgreSQL version 9.6.4. For the complete database support information, see Database support. |
Third-party software support | |
This version of BMC Network Automation is bundled with the following third-party software:
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GUI enhancements | |
Enhanced Job Filter page | On the Job Filter page, in the Actions section, now you can select either all actions or select specific actions by which you want to filter jobs. Actions are also categorized further for easy selection, as follows:
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Miscellaneous enhancements | |
Send the Device Inventory report as an attachment and include report URL | In addition to existing reports, you can send the Device Inventory report as an attachment to your email. For example, you can send a weekly notification that includes the Device Inventory report as an attachment. Also, now you can include a link to the Device Inventory report URL in the email. For more information, see Creating a notification job. |
Discontinued support for French | Starting from version 8.9.02, BMC Network Automation is not localized to French. |
BMC Network Automation web services updates
The following table describes the BMC Network Automation web services updates included in this release:
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DeviceDTO updates | When adding a new device using SOAP API, DeviceService.addDevice() any current or trusted configurations in the DeviceDTO will no longer be used. Current and trusted configurations are solely managed by the system based on the snapshots of the devices, and so it was an error to allow the DeviceDTO to provide these configurations during the add operation. |
REST API version 2.0 introduced | As in the previous version, version 2.0 supports create, retrieve, update, and delete operations on network spans and jobs. Support is added for the following operations on various components:
The value mapping and supporting component services are enhanced with new services to support the other oprtations (such as listing security vulnerabilities and Device Inventory report attributes). See the complete API in Endpoints in the REST API v2.0. |
REST API version 1.0 deprecated | The previous version of the REST API is deprecated. It continues to function, but is not enhanced with any new features. |
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management-related updates
The following table describes the BMC Network Automation updates included in this release to support BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management:
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Enhanced firewall rules | In this version, ambiguities are fixed in the sorting logic for the non-overlapping firewall rules, which previously led to incorrect results or exceptions under certain conditions. |
Changes to the supported products and solution versions
This section describes the versions of products and solutions supported by BMC Network Automation version 8.9.02.
BMC Network Automation integrates with BMC Threat Director version 2.2. For more information, see the BMC BladeLogic Portal documentation.
BMC Network Automation integrates with the following products to provide the BMC Continuous Compliance for Network Automation solution. For more information about this integration, see BMC Continuous Compliance for Network Automation solution.
Product | Version |
BMC Remedy AR System Server | 9.0 |
BMC Remedy ITSM Suite | 9.0 |
BMC Atrium CMDB Enterprise Manager | 9.0 |
BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform | 7.8.00 |
BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content | 20.16.03 |
BMC Decision Support - Network Automation | 8.9.02 |
BMC Network Automation integrates with the following BMC and non-BMC products to provide the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution. For more information about this integration, see BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
Product | Version |
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management | 4.6.04 |
BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform | 7.6.03 |
BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content | 20.14.02 |
Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP | 7.3 |
Infoblox | 6.8.13 |
Downloading, installing, and upgrading to the service pack
For download instructions, see Downloading the installation files. For installation instructions, see Installing.
If you are upgrading the application server, you must also upgrade all remote device agents to the same version as TrueSight Network Automation. For more information about upgrade, see Upgrading.
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