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:
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.
TKU 2017-Sep-1 is released in the following streams:
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.
The release comprises components packaged as such entities:
BMC Atrium Discovery Extended Data Pack, which is a separately licensable product.
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
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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 |
BMC Discovery 11.0.x introduces a new extended cluster discovery.
Cluster Modeling approaches and Key changes:
More about new clustering technologies and clustering models you may find here.
For details of why the SI Key Change field is important please see this documentation.
RFE ref. | Product Page | Enhancement | SI Key Change |
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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 |
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
Defect ref. | Details | Product Page |
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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 |
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.