BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2018-Sep-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 series.
Please be aware that when uploading September TKU to BMC Discovery 11.2 the following warnings may be displayed but doesn't require any further actions:
Change to module Aruba_AP had warning model.NetworkDevice used at line 384.
Change to module Network.BasicStackDevice had warning model.NetworkDevice used at line 34.
Change to module SANSwitch_FCPorts had warning at line 16 imports pattern module 'Network.BasicStackDevice' which has model.NetworkDevice used at line 34.
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.
CMDB Sync mapping update
Current release contains the following CMDB mapping updates:
- "OpenSource" publisher name was replaced with "NGINX" for Nginx Webserver. (DRDC1-9977)
- publisher attribute was removed from SI and pattern metadata (in Wordpress, Open Source Tripwire). This change will Impact CMDB mapping as ManufacturerName will no longer have a value. (DRDC1-9977)
GCP update
For the current TKU release ECA error issue was fixed for Google Load Balancing pattern. (DRDC1-11949) More information about Google Load Balancing Discovery can be found here.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2018-Sep-1 is released in the following streams:
- 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 devices definition files
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions ( BMC Discovery 11.0.xx, and BMC Discovery 11.1, BMC Discovery 11.2 and BMC Discovery 11.3) as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system.
BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2018-Sep-1, 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 System Release Notes page.
Installation and Upgrade
- 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
- BMC Discovery 11.3 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
Products
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetApp | NetApp ESeries SANtricity Web Services Proxy | Storage and Device Management Software | Unix, Windows | Y | Y | NetApp ESeries SANtricity Web Services Proxy |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-11742 | IBM InfoSphere DataStage | File versioning approach updated. | N |
| DRDC1-11926 | Apache Tomcat | Windows trigger updated. | N |
| DRDC1-11994 | HP Vertica | Added build extraction. | N |
| DRDC1-11962 | Apache HTTPD-based Webservers Apache HTTPD-based Webservers - Extended Discovery Pattern Apache Tomcat | Added support for JBoss Core Services distribution of Apache HTTP Server. | N |
| DRDC1-11976 | IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core | Added support for ear modules. | N |
| DRDC1-11948 | Oracle E-Business Suite | Added support for clustered instances. | N |
| DRDC1-11950 | Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise | Number of enhancements were introduced to Sybase ASE Database Server. | N |
| DRDC1-11397 | BMC CONTROL-M BMC CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager BMC CONTROL-M CM for Advanced File Transfer | Updated Control-M patterns to support AFT. | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
DRDC1-10533 | Problem:Problem on the query used to retrieve the databases. | N | |
DRDC1-11733 | Problem: Teradata Viewpoint pattern module has 'product' metadata rather than 'products' | N | |
DRDC1-12005 | Problem: ECA error for the Helix pattern | N | |
DRDC1-11821 | Problem: Apache Tomcat pattern does not handle HPUX style packages. | N | |
DRDC1-11963 | Problem: No version for the Red Hat JBoss Application Server SI. | N | |
| DRDC1-11829 | Problem: PostgreSQL Database Server pattern needs better path versioning. Solution: Code fix. | PostgreSQL RDBMS | N |
| DRDC1-9977 | Problem: "Open Source" is not the name of a publisher. Solution:
| Nginx Webserver, Wordpress, Open Source Tripwire | N |
| DRDC1-11997 | Problem: The internal tool we use to find known versions of SQL Server, and the mapping from known version to product_version, is missing some versions Solution: Fix the internal tool, which resulted in a bug fix in the pattern | Microsoft SQL Server | N |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU September 2018 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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2 Comments
Jan Bassa
Following the hyperlink brings you to the old site, automatically you will be transferred to the generic epd site. Please add the correct hyperlink to the downloadable TKU.
Iryna Iatsiuk
Hello Jan,
Thanks for your comment. The issue is fixed now.
Regards,
Iryna