BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2019-Feb-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 series.
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 updates
For February TKU Release we introduced the following updates:
- added ManufacturerName to Cloud related CI.( DRDC1-12641)
- publisher attribute was removed from System Security Services Daemon pattern. This will impact CMDB normalization as ManufacturerName will no longer have a value. (DRDC1-12551)
For more information about the CDM mapping please visit the product documentation: Default CDM Mapping.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2019-Feb-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.
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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, BMC Discovery 11.1.xx, BMC Discovery 11.2.xx and BMC Discovery 11.3.xx as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system.
BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2019-Feb-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FileMaker | FileMaker Server | Relational Database Management Systems | Windows | Y | Y | FileMaker Server |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-12601, DRDC1-12612 | Apache Mesos | Updated ApacheMesos cluster ID extraction. | Y |
| DRDC1-12521 | BMC Remedy AR System | Updated the database linking between Oracle Database and Remedy AR. | N |
| DRDC1-12560 | Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise | Improved path_version_regex in pattern Sybase.SybaseASE.DatabaseServer. | N |
| DRDC1-12581 | HP Data Protector | Minor enhancements to HP Data Protector. | N |
| DRDC1-12493 | SAS Server | Updated WMI versioning method. | N |
| DRDC1-12625 | Eclipse Jetty | Added cdm_software_server_type attribute | N |
| DRDC1-12589 | Oracle E-Business Suite | Oracle E-Business Suite updated to handle multiple data sources. | N |
| DRDC1-12555 | Java Virtual Machine | Updated metadata to reflect Oracle as publisher. | N |
| DRDC1-12616 | Apache Kafka | Fixed versioning gap. | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
DRDC1-12528 | Problem: BladelogicServerAutomation.RSCDAgent pattern does not correctly handle Windows HOME file. | N | |
| DRDC1-11871 | Problem: BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite model is not fit for purpose. Solution: Code fix. | BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite | N |
DRDC1-12023 | Problem: JBoss Extended J2EE Discovery: standalone.xml is not at the expected place | N | |
DRDC1-12264 | Problem: Do not correctly handle non standard tomcat processes. | N | |
DRDC1-12637 | Problem: Pattern Log Poluted by ScheduledTasksInfo.TaskScheduler.CronJobs data. | N | |
| DRDC1-12644 | Problem: Crontab pattern runs command via PRIV_RUNCMD that will always timeout after 3 minutes. Solution: Code fix. | Scheduled Tasks Information | N |
| DRDC1-12650 | Problem: Cloudera CDH does not discover the full/correct version. Solution: Code fix. | Cloudera CDH | N |
| DRDC1-12623 | Problem: Veritas Clusters getting deleted immediately after creation during a scan. Solution: Code fix. | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | N |
| DRDC1-12551 | Problem: Oracle Specific Software Discovered as RedHat Publisher. Solution: Publisher attribute was removed from SI and pattern metadata. Impacts CMDB mapping as ManufacturerName will no longer have a value. | System Security Services Daemon | N |
DRDC1-12617 | Problem: ECA Error in Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct | N | |
| DRDC1-12591 | Problem: ECA error in SupportDetail SI pattern when triggered on SIs running on an MFPart node rather than a host Solution: Code fix. | - | N |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU February 2019 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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