BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2017-Nov-1 contains the following additional product content for BMC Discovery 11.2 series:
Product content updates require appliance restart
When product content is added, the appliance is restarted as part of the update. You are given the opportunity to prevent the restart, though if you do so, none of the knowledge content will be installed.
OpenStack provides open source cloud software used to create public or private clouds. OpenStack software enables you to have virtualized computing platforms, as public clouds, private clouds hosted by a cloud provider, or in your own data center.
You access and configure all of your services, using the OpenStack Dashboard (horizon). Horizon is the product name for the dashboard component. Most other OpenStack components, known as projects, have product names, for example, the Compute Service is called nova. For more information see the OpenStack project navigator.
BMC Discovery enables you to discover your cloud services running in OpenStack. The following set of services can be discovered at the initial release of the discovery of OpenStack:
See Discovering OpenStack for more information.
Discovery of the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) services is now supported:
The following improvement has been made to AWS discovery:
The following improvement has been made to Microsoft Azure discovery:
Failed to get API versioning info: 'servers/firewallrules'
. This was as a result of an Azure API change; it no longer occurs. (DRUD1-21803)For more information, see Discovering Amazon Web Services and Discovering Microsoft Azure.
The following additional defects were resolved in Product Content 2017-Nov-1:
/vault/credentials
endpoint with an incorrect type for the type
field results in 503 Service currently unavailable
. (DRUD1-21177)The following changes have been made to the discovery commands:
The following code:
aws_instance_id=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id 2>/dev/null`
Is replaced with:
aws_instance_id=`curl --connect-timeout 5 http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id 2>/dev/null`
No changes have been made to the taxonomy in this TKU release.