BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2017-Sep-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 10.1, 10.2 and BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 series. It is described in the following sections:
Important information
This update contains Product Content and requires an appliance restart as part of the installation
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.
Load Balancers
From TKU September 2017 onwards a new Windows Network Load Balancer is supported. For more information about load balancers please visit the product documentation: Load Balancers.
CMDB Sync mapping update
For TKU September 2017 the issue (DRUD1-20897) when first-order Software Instances that contain other Software Instances could be handled incorrectly when included in application models, leading to incorrect relationships in the CMDB was fixed. For more information about the CDM mapping please visit the product documentation: Default CDM Mapping.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2017-Sep-1 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
- Multi-Cloud - Starting in version 11.2 and onward you can discover (with a license) your multi-cloud environments like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Please visit the Product Content page.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | HP Essential Services Monitor | Performance Management Software | Unix | Y | Y | HP Essential Services Monitor |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric | Instant Communications Applications | Windows | Y | Y | Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric |
| ObserveIT | ObserveIT | End-User Query, Reporting, and Analysis | Unix, Windows | Y | Y | ObserveIT |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Infinispan | Data Integration and Access Software | Unix, Windows | Y | Y | Red Hat Infinispan |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-9655 | Corosync Cluster Engine Linux-HA Cluster | Number of updates introduced for ClusterEngine pattern. | N |
| DRDC1-9438 | SAP Business Suite | Fixed the problem in SAP queries for MSSQL. | N |
| DRDC1-4028 | Informatica PowerCenter | Fixed license node removal. | N |
| DRDC1-9398 | Commvault Virtual Server Protection | Updated trigger for Commvault Media Agent. | N |
| DRDC1-9901 | IBM WebSphere MQ | Added getHostingNode function for Clusters linkage. | N |
| DRDC1-9423 | Cluster_Support.tpl | Added an ability to link clustered SIs to the HP Service Guard Cluster based on SI listening IP address and IP addresses on ClusterServices . | N |
| DRDC1-9793 | Symantec Enterprise Security Manager | Number of updates introduced to the pattern 'Symantec ESM Connection Manager' . | N |
| DRDC1-9697 | Oracle VM | Added model.setRemovalGroup to "Oracle VM Virtual Machine" pattern . | N |
| DRDC1-9864 | IBM Integration Bus | Fixed versioning issue. | N |
| DRDC1-9512 | Oracle ILOM | Added a check for virtual hosts. Added relations between ILOM and LDom Container. | N |
| DRDC1-9799 | CA eHealth | CA eHealth pattern now includes Windows processes in addition to Linux | N |
DRDC1-9460, DRDC1-9835 | SAP HANA | Versioning enhancement is introduced. Added support for SAP HANA Extended Application Services. | N |
| DRDC1-9777 | BMC Discovery | Added no-follow rule for Oracle DB to BMC Discovery pattern. | N |
| DRDC1-9457 | IBM General Parallel File System | Pattern updated to support a new product name - " IBM Spectrum Scale". | N |
| DRDC1-9423, DRDC1-9839 | Oracle RDBMS | IPs now can be used as evidence for clustered Oracle SI identification. Added configuration option for oracle patch extraction. Added secondary method for served_oracle_instances identification based on listener name. | N |
| DRDC1-9440, DRDC1-9432 | Microsoft SQL Server | Number of enhancements for Microsoft SQLServer pattern. | N |
| DRDC1-5602 | IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Response Time Tracking, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Internet Service Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics, | Updated SI name. | N |
| DRDC1-6295 | IBM Informix 4GL Rapid Development System | IBM Informix 4GL's "RDS" was renamed to "Rapid Development System". | N |
| DRDC1-9807 | IBM Tivoli Storage Manager | Enhanced versioning extraction on Linux hosts. | N |
| DRDC1-9631 | Apache Derby RDBMS | Added false positive check for "Apache Derby Database Engine" | N |
| DRDC1-9797 | Neo4j | Updated trigger, added new methods for install_root and config_dir extraction. | N |
| DRDC1-9890 | Red Hat KVM | Package versioning was fixed. | N |
| DRDC1-9720 | Progress OpenEdge RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern | Fixed arguments extraction. | N |
| DRDC1-8686 | Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server - Database Detail Pattern | Added support for Microsoft SQL Server running on Linux. | N |
| DRDC1-6779 | Processor Information | Updated method of setting cpu_threading_enabled attribute. | N |
| DRDC1-9841 | BMC Patrol Agent | Fixed the names for BMCPatrolAgent SoftwareComponents | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page |
|---|---|---|
DRDC1-8288 | Problem: Bad short_names on many VirtualMachines | IBM Workload Partitions for AIX |
DRDC1-9767, DRDC1-9766 | Problem: We should assign correct version to JBoss AS. JBoss AS becomes WildFly. Updates required. Solution: Code fix. | Adobe LiveCycle |
DRDC1-8093 | Problem: vCenter Cluster keys are not unique | |
DRDC1-7959 | Problem: IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment sometimes cannot find linked IBM WebSphere Application Server Software Instance | |
DRDC1-9656 | Problem: Apache Ambari Agent will never be linked to Apache Ambari Server | |
DRDC1-8358 | Problem: Patterns don't model SIs if parent SoftwareComponents are running on Application Server Clusters | |
| DRDC1-9582 | Problem: The 'set DB2INSTANCE' command in IBM.DB2.RDBMS_Extended is not working correctly. Solution: Code fix. | |
| DRDC1-9870 | Problem: Demo VA contains ECA errors. Solution: Code fix. | Sun Java System Webserver |
| DRDC1-9783 | Problem: Wrong containment links to the "SAP Central Server" Solution: Code fix. | SAP Business Suite |
| DRDC1-9788 | Problem: MSSQLServer can find version then "lose it" Solution: Code fix. | Microsoft SQL Server |
| DRDC1-9787 | Problem: MSSQLServer fails to report bind_address Solution: Code fix. | Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server - Database Detail Pattern |
| DRDC1-9568 | Problem: Incorrect package is used for versioning for HP Version Control Agent. Solution: Code fix. | HP Systems Insight Manager |
| DRDC1-9330 | Problem: CMDB sync cardinality errors on some TIBCO / AIX devices. Solution: Code fix. | TIBCO Adapters |
| DRDC1-9871 | Problem: ECA Error on running ESX_Storage pattern. Solution: Code fix. | VMware_ESX |
| Case 111270 | Problem: ECA Engine Errors during Discovery of Exadata and Private Cloud Appliance. Solution: Code fix. | Oracle Engineered Systems |
| DRDC1-9800 | Problem: NVD pattern does not handle Windows 2008 edition attributes correctly. Solution: Code fix. | National Vulnerability Database |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (in xslx format) (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU September 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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