Release notes and notices

The following enhancements are available in this release of BMC Helix Discovery:

• Manage credentials on BMC Discovery Outpost by using REST API.
• Manage scheduled scans and exclude ranges by using an enhanced REST API.
• Discover Windows EC2 hosts by using AWS Systems Manager API.
• Supported BMC Discovery Outpost host is now Windows Server 2016 and later. 

The following enhancements are available in this release of BMC Helix Discovery:

• Discover Google Compute Engine hosts running in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by using Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) and Identity and Access Management (IAM), without a direct SSH connection.
• Enhanced mainframe discovery includes discovering and modeling of observed communication between mainframe and distributed components.
• Intelligent discovery of cloud services by region.
• BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations  enabled .
• Miscellaneous enhancements, such as support for namespaces in HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, new TPL function to discover TLS certificate data, and so on.

This release of BMC Helix Discovery provides support for Kerberos authentication for discovery credentials. The Kerberos authentication protocol is available for target discovery using SSH credentials.

The following enhancements are available in this release of BMC Helix Discovery:

• Integration with a new third-party credential manager, HashiCorp Vault.
• Support for OpenShift OAuth authentication, which simplifies the discovery of Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

The following enhancements are available in this release of BMC Helix Discovery:

• Discover Windows hosts using PowerShell. Use the new PowerShell credential in preference to using Windows credentials, such as WMI and RemQuery.
• Discover container platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift using API providers.
• Improved SAAM (start anywhere application modeling) with a new ability to model Business Services and Business Services (Technical).
• Model changes supporting the new service modeling capabilities
  
• Support for new REST API endpoints for data import and general data manipulation.
• Support for new TPL functions to handle JSON data and expose the node identity algorithm.
• FIPS compliant and certified BMC Discovery Outpost.
  

This release of BMC Helix Discovery is provided for BMC Helix AIOps users only.

The version of BMC Helix Discovery provided for BMC Helix AIOps users provides the following enhancements:

• Start anywhere application modeling has new service modeling capabilities 
• Licensing limitations. The version of BMC Helix Discovery provided for BMC Helix AIOps users is not intended to be used for discovery. It is only intended for service modeling using data from BMC Helix AIOps. Consequently, you cannot download a BMC Discovery Outpost from the UI.

The following enhancements are available in this release of BMC Helix Discovery:

• Discover EC2 hosts by using AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
• Introducing the ability to manage overlapping IP spaces using 'identity scope'
• Synchronize to ServiceNow CMDB by using the IRE API
• Allowed IP addresses

The following features are available in this initial release of BMC Helix Discovery:

• BMC Helix Discovery service
• BMC Helix Discovery Outpost
• BMC Helix Discovery security
• Out of the box discovery capabilities