BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2017-Oct-2 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 10.1, 10.2 and BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 series.
TKU 2017-Oct-2 is a re-release of Technology Knowledge Update October 2017 which fixes major TKU issue: "NVD can create an ECA when it triggers on a host with an integer for a service pack" (DRDC1-10119) . This issue was identified in the original TKU for October 2017 release.
If you have already installed the original version of the Technology Knowledge Update for October 2017, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade your TKU to this re-release and then remove the previous version from the appliance.
Product content updates require appliance restart
This TKU release contains product content additions. 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.
HostContainers name attribute update
For TKU October 2017 Serial Number value was added to the name attribute for Host Containers like: Oracle Exadata, IBM POWER System, Solaris LDOMS . Current change will make Host Containers name unique and consistent overall in Discovery.
CMDB Sync mapping update
From TKU October 2017 onwards relationships in CMDB between VPLEX and backend storage, and Consuming host and backend Storage are created (DRUD1-21712). For more information about the CDM mapping please visit the product documentation: Default CDM Mapping.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2017-Oct-2 is released in the following streams:
- Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 10.x series
- Release compatible with BMC Discovery 11.x series
Download
Customers can access this TKU release from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. If you are a customer or partner and do not already have a login please contact your BMC account manager.
Check out this demo if you are unsure how to download from BMC EPD site.
Contents
The release comprises components packaged as such entities:
- BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update
- Core - Patterns that model various software products
- Extended Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases
- Middleware discovery - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain J2EE Application Servers and Web servers
- Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files, Printer definition files and SNMP Managed Device definition files
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions (Atrium Discovery 10.0.xx, Atrium Discovery 10.1.xx, Atrium Discovery 10.2.xx, BMC Discovery 11.0.xx, BMC Discovery 11.1 and BMC Discovery 11.2) as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system
BMC Atrium Discovery Extended Data Pack, which is a separately licensable product.
- Hardware Reference Data - Patterns and data import CSV file that populate BMC Discovery with power and heat consumption figures for various hosts.
- National Vulnerability Database - A pattern that populates BMC Discovery with information about the CPE ID of each product, full details here
- Product Lifecycle - Patterns that populate BMC Discovery with information about End-of-Life, End-of-Support, and End-of-Extended-Support for versions of certain host Operating Systems as well as versions of certain software products
- BMC Discovery for Storage, which is a separately licensable product.
- Storage Systems: Patterns that model many Storage Systems. See the full list of currently supported storage devices here. Visit the Storage System Release Notes page to get details about what's new.
- Improvements on existing Storage patterns. See what we have fixed or improved in existing patterns in the Storage Systems Release Notes page.
Installation and Upgrade
- Atrium Discovery 10.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
- Atrium Discovery 10.2 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
- BMC Discovery 11.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
- BMC Discovery 11.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
- BMC Discovery 11.2 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
Products
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axway | Axway Interchange | Business-to-Business Middlewares | Unix | Y | N | Axway Interchange |
| Blazegraph | Blazegraph Database | Nonrelational Database Management Systems | Unix, Windows | Y | Y | Blazegraph Database |
| Carbon Black | Cb Protection | Secure Content and Threat Management | Unix, Windows | Y | Y | Carbon Black Cb Protection |
| Carbon Black | Cb Response | Secure Content and Threat Management | Unix, Windows | Y | Y | Carbon Black Cb Response |
| EMC | EMC ViPR SRM | Storage and Device Management Software | Unix | Y | Y | EMC ViPR SRM |
Enhanced Pattern Modules for Cluster Awareness in BMC Discovery 11.x series
BMC Discovery 11.0.x introduces a new extended cluster discovery.
Cluster Modeling approaches and Key changes:
- Clustering Platform that generate a Cluster Node. In most cases the Key does not change.
- Clustered Software. In previous releases, the SIs were modeled running on Host nodes. Now, if they are running on a cluster, they are modeled running on the Cluster node. That means that instances of these products that run on clusters have changed Keys. Instances that do not run on clusters do not have changed Keys.
- Software Performing Clustering - products that implement their own Clustering Scheme without using a Clustering Platform. In general, the SoftwareCluster is given the same Key that was previously given to the SoftwareInstance.
More about new clustering technologies and clustering models you may find here.
Enhanced Pattern Modules
For details of why the SI Key Change field is important please see this documentation.
RFEs
RFE ref. | Product Page | Enhancement | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-9914 | JacORB | Fixed the issue with duplicate JacORB ORB SIs. | N |
| DRDC1-9950 | IBM Tivoli Netcool-OMNIbus | Versioning issue was fixed. | N |
| DRDC1-7352 | Microsoft SQL Server - Database Detail Pattern | Added compatibility level attribute for SQL Server databases. | N |
| DRDC1-9593 | Microsoft SQL Server - Database Detail Pattern | The pattern now gets a list of databases from the ERRORLOG in addition to the other methods, but only if explicitly requested by the user | N |
| DRDC1-9668 | Microsoft SQL Server | Updated searching approach for .mdf files. | N |
| DRDC1-9670 | Microsoft SQL Server | Better approach to the find the ERRORLOG file | N |
| DRDC1-8974 | National Vulnerability Database | Service pack information now added to NVD script. | N |
| DRDC1-9789 | Quest Foglight | Trigger and product_version regex were updated. | N |
| DRDC1-9944 | EMC CIM Object Manager | Fixed the issue with ECOM and EMC VMAX Storage Pattern Performance. | N |
| DRDC1-9986 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Issue when Solaris LDOM pattern removes links to cluster node is now fixed. | N |
| DRDC1-10038 | IBM WebSphere Application Server Web Server Plug-in | Updated the logic for Website SCs and WAS SCs linking. | N |
| DRDC1-9565 | Oracle Transparent Gateways | Updated regexes for Detail types identification. | N |
| DRDC1-9697 | Oracle VM | Removal of old VMs issue is now fixed. | N |
DRDC1-9891, DRDC1-8726 | VMware Virtual Machine software | Fixed the issue when SI.ram value was not extracted. | N |
DRDC1-9868, DRDC1-9946 | IBM DB2 RDBMS IBM DB2 RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern | Added local and remote node obtaining; modified additional attributes adding; changed services_file_subset regex, to pass commented lines. | N |
Case 00393354 | Oracle Engineered Systems IBM AIX System p Hardware Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Updated HostContainer name attributes. | N |
| DRDC1-9966 | Symantec Veritas Cluster Server | Fixed regex parsing output of 'hasys -list' as losing a cluster member thereby causing a subsequent ECA error. | N |
| DRDC1-9962 | Oracle Coherence | Updated edition and version extraction approaches. | N |
Case 00414656 | Oracle RDBMS | Updated known_versions list. | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page |
|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-10119 | Problem: NVD can create an ECA when it triggers on a host with an integer for a service pack. Solution: Code fix. | National Vulnerability Database |
| DRDC1-10045 | Problem: ECA error in Windows NLB pattern. Solution: Code fix. | Windows Network Load Balancer |
DRDC1-9834 | Problem: Running tivoli cinfo command with insufficient permissions may result in timeouts long after command has finished | (Common Functions) |
DRDC1-10033 | Problem: HAProxy LoadBalancerService keys are not specific enough cause shared LoadBalancerSerivce nodes. | |
| DRDC1-9718 | Problem: BMC Patrol Agent needs to check if modules it discovers are running. Solution: Code fix. | BMC Patrol Agent |
| DRDC1-10021 | Problem: Do not get CPE IDs for ambiguous W2K3 servers. Solution: Code fix. | National Vulnerability Database |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU October 2017 can be downloaded from here .
The main command/file matrix documentation is accessible from the Got a Problem to Solve? page or directly from here.
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