This documentation supports an earlier version of BMC Helix IT Service Management on-premises deployment.

To view the documentation for the latest version, select 22.1.06 from the Product version picker.

Perform a fresh installation by deploying container images of BMC Helix Innovation Suite, including Action Request System, BMC Helix ITSM, BMC Helix CMDB, BMC Helix Digital Workplace, BMC Helix ITSM: Smart IT, BMC Helix ITSM Insights, BMC Helix Multi-Cloud BrokerBMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker, and other components.

Learn more about installation in the Deployment overview.


Release notes and notices
updated 29 Nov

Learn what’s new or changed for installation and deployment of BMC Helix IT Service Management 21.3.06, including new features, urgent issues, documentation updates, and fixes or patches. 


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DateSummaryReference
December 1, 2022

Updates available in 21.3 patch 6:

  • Updated support for Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Support for self-signed and CA signed certificates
  • Updated support for Ingress controller
  • Automated setting up of BMC Deployment Engine

21.3 Patches
August 30, 2022This patch contains functional and security defect fixes.21.3 Patches
August 1, 2022

Updates available in 21.3 patch 5:

  • Support for Amazon EKS, GKE and OKE platforms
  • Rollback deployment

  • Updates to Fluent Bit deployment
  • Enhancements to Support Assistant tool
21.3 Patches
March 23, 2022

Updates available in 21.3 patch 4:

  • Enhancements to Support Assistant tool deployment

  • Support for deployment size templates
21.3 Patches
January 5, 2022

Enhancement available in this release:

Support BMC Helix ITSM Insights and BMC Helix Dashboards deployment

21.3 Patches


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The release notes in this documentation are specific to deploying BMC Helix IT Service Management and other components by using container images. For complete release notes, refer to the product documentation of the respective component.


Planning

 

Plan an installation based on recommended deployment architecture, best practices, sizing, and system requirements.

Installing

 

Install the BMC Helix Innovation Suite platform and service management applications and perform initial system configuration.


Upgrading

 

Upgrade the BMC Helix Innovation Suite platform and service management applications based on the latest system requirements and software.


Troubleshooting

 

Resolve common issues or errors, review logs, or contact Support Open link .

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FAQs

Here are some answers to the most frequently asked questions about BMC Helix IT Service Management containers.

We provide data dump required for install, but not for sample data.

BMC Helix IT Service Management containers use Linux operating system. The container host systems must have Linux operating system as the kernel is shared between the host and container.

It is theoretically possible to run a Linux virtual machine on a Windows host and deploy Kubernetes across the virtual machine and run Linux containers. However, BMC does not recommend such deployment architecture and does not provide deployment sizing guidelines for such configurations.

No. The database is a standalone architecture.

BMC Helix Innovation Suite platform and service management application containers are based on Docker and they leverage Kubernetes orchestration layer.

Yes.

For more information, see Downloading the installation files.

That is correct ! we are bringing all Service Management applications on one converged platform.

For more information, see Downloading the installation files.

Yes, The same Deployment Engine setup ( Jenkins) can be used to deploy different environments of the same version, such as dev, QA, and production.

For more information, see Setting up the deployment input configuration file.

Yes, The same Deployment Engine setup ( Jenkins) may be used to deploy multiple instances of the same version.

For more information, see Setting up the deployment input configuration file.

Yes, The same Deployment Engine setup ( Jenkins) can be used to deploy patches and updates; hence may be retained or recreated when needed.

For more information, see Setting up the deployment input configuration file.

Yes, Multiple BMC Helix ITSM and Helix Platform namespaces can use same Helix Logging Namespace. Only one helix logging namespace is recommended per cluster.

For more information, see Setting up the installation environment.

AR server, FTS server (Platform Rank server), mid-tier, and so on are all separate services.

To trigger rolling restart, you must change the value of the triggerUpgrade variable to any value of your choice that triggers restart. This variable is exposed in the values.yaml file and is referred in various specs, such as statefulset or deployment.

All containers are part of the same server group. You don’t have to anything specific to make them part of the server group.

You can know which pod is running in the namespace by using one of the following ways:

  • If you are consuming the Prometheus metrics from Kubernetes, you can scrape the metrics to know which pod is running in the namespace.
  • You can run the following command that will list the pods you have and the worker nodes that are running.

    kubectl get pods -oy

The ranking is governed through AR system operations ranking. On startup, container bootstrap script only assigns default ranking for the first time pod comes up. From that point on, the ranking changes are retained.

If you scale down all the pods to zero, the ITSM application will stop.

Auto scaling is not supported currently for both pods and nodes. 

The 21.3.x ITSM upgrade includes the latest patches for the following components:  

  • BMC Helix ITSM 
  • BMC Service Level Management 
  • BMC Service Request Management 
  • Mid-Tier (AR System) 
  • BMC CMDB 
  • BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting 
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Basic 
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced 
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog 
  • BMC Live Chat 
  • BMC Helix ITSM: Smart IT 

If you are using BMC Helix Innovation Suite or applications based on it, then the upgrade also includes: 

  • BMC Helix Innovation Studio 
  • BMC Helix Business Workflows  
  • BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker 
  • BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting for these BMC Helix Innovation Suite components

    Important

    You can install BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting if you have opted for  Smart Reporting extended support. When you perform fresh installation of BMC Helix IT Service Management 21.3.06 and select to deploy Smart Reporting , the 21.05.03 version of Smart Reporting is installed in your environment.

    Smart Reporting version 21.3 is available only for upgrade scenarios for existing customers. This version is not available to new customers.

Single applications or modules are not upgraded separately during the upgrade. As part of the 21.3.x upgrade, all components are moved to a single instance of BMC Helix ITSM Suite 21.3.  

BMC has not made any changes to the existing APIs. Any code that you have built on previously existing APIs should continue to work in the new release.  

There are minor authentication related changes to the APIs. For more information on the authentication related changes, see the following links:

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/ars213/Overview+of+the+REST+API

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/ars213/Access+and+authentication+for+the+REST+API

We have added some new, simplified REST APIs for specific ITSM objects, such as incidents, problems, change requests in versions 21.3.x.

See, https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm213/overview-of-the-simplified-rest-api-1030563651.html.

Yes. We recommend not changing the OOTB (out-of-the-box) reports provided in BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting. Always make a copy of the OOTB reports and then make the necessary changes. If you followed this approach, your reports would continue to work. If you modified the OOTB reports, they would not work post upgrade. Please make sure you create copies of all modified OOTB report before the upgrade starts.

 

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