Product Content 2017-Sep-1

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2017-Sep-1 contains the following additional product content for BMC Discovery 11.2 series:

Feature updates

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) credential UI now has the ability to import AWS credentials from csv files. When you create an AWS access key in the IAM console, you can download the new Access Key ID and Access Key Secret as a csv file. The Product Content update contained in the 2017-Sep-1 knowledge update contains an enhancement which enables you to upload the csv file and import the credentials.

For more information, see Discovering Amazon Web Services and Adding device credentials.

Changes to discovery commands

The following changes have been made to the discovery commands:

Linux and VMware ESX hostinfo scripts

The following code:

if [ -z "$aws_instance_id" -a -f /usr/bin/curl ]; then
    # This web request is not chargeable.
# See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html
    aws_instance_id=`curl http://instance-data/latest/meta-data/instance-id 2>/dev/null`
fi 

is replaced with:

if [ -z "$aws_instance_id" -a -f /usr/bin/curl ]; then
    # This web request is not chargeable.
# See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html
    aws_instance_id=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id 2>/dev/null`
fi 

Model changes

Nodes changed

Relationships were added to the following node kinds:

• Collection
• AdminCollection
• Deployment

The relationships are described in the following table.