BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2019-Oct-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 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
The following CMDB Sync mapping updates were introduced for the October TKU release:
- "non stable IBM AIX LPAR identifier causes issue in CMDB" (DRDC1-13706) was fixed. Unique partition_id was set in AIX platform script.
Please note that this change is going to cause a change of identity.
For more information about the CDM mapping please visit the product documentation: Default CDM Mapping.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2019-Oct-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 11.1.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-Oct-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 11.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finastra | Fusion LoanIQ | Financial Performance and Strategy Management Applications | Windows | Y | N | Fusion LoanIQ |
Enhanced Pattern Modules for Cluster Awareness in BMC Discovery 11.x series
BMC Discovery 11.1.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-13875 | Updated versioning and trigger for IBM WebSphere Application Server Node agent and Deployment Manager. | N | |
| DRDC1-13639 | Oracle WebLogic Server | Added alternative patch extraction via Opatch command. | N |
| DRDC1-13802 | Oracle Siebel CRM | Command versioning updated. | N |
| DRDC1-12745 | Sybase SQL Anywhere (ASA) | Support for Sybase SQL Anywhere DB added. | N |
| DRDC1-13816 | Sybase jConnect for JDBC | Added expected_content_regex attribute for Unix active versioning. | N |
| DRDC1-13886 | Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services | Updated FunctionalLevels mapping table. | N |
DRDC1-13246, DRDC1-13445, DRDC1-13676 | Oracle Automatic Storage Management Oracle Clusterware Oracle RDBMS Oracle Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter | Oracle unique name extraction via SQL updated, scan_name discovery added, PSU number discovery added. | N |
| DRDC1-13885 | Red Hat JBoss Application Server | Improved active versioning. | N |
| DRDC1-13935 | Illumio Adaptive Security Platform Agent | Illumio Adaptive Security Platform Agent SI type was changed to Illumio Virtual Enforcement Node Agent, package versioning updated, added links to related processes. | N |
| DRDC1-13705 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Updated package versioning. | N |
DRDC1-13654, DRDC1-13800 | HP BladeSystem | Add Brocade and Cisco IO modules, updated search approach. | N |
| DRDC1-13799 | Xen Source Xen Domain Virtualization Software | Added version 4.1 support. | N |
| DRDC1-13922 | Elasticsearch | Updated configuration path. | N |
| DRDC1-13903 | Citrix XenDesktop Site | Updated package regex, added removal group. | N |
| DRDC1-13616 | Apache Cassandra | Added deep Database modelling for Apache Cassandra. Added Windows support. | N |
| DRDC1-13892 | Apache Tomcat | False positive check updated. | N |
| DRDC1-13955 | Microsoft Internet Information Services - Extended Discovery | Removed password attribute from command output. | N |
| DRDC1-13695 | Citrix XenServer | Updated Citrix Hypervisor version extraction. | N |
| DRDC1-13908 | HP Integrity Virtual Machines | Removed "uuid" from display attributes. | N |
| DRDC1-13693 | Oracle Engineered Systems | Added computer nodes in DEAD state. | N |
| DRDC1-13923 | Added configuration option for Oracle DB Extended pattern to initiate SQL query with all discovered service names. | N | |
| DRDC1-13065 | Brocade Network Advisor | Added support for Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition formerly known as Brocade Network Advisor. | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
DRDC1-13873 | Problem: ECA Error in BMC MyIT pattern. | N | |
DRDC1-13707 | Problem: Update regex to extract version. | N | |
DRDC1-13790 | Problem: Invalid regular expressions in patterns. | HibariDB | N |
DRDC1-13776 | Problem: ECA error in Eclipse Vert-x. | N | |
DRDC1-13960 | Problem: Incorrect version extraction from command. | N | |
DRDC1-13894 | Problem: ECA error in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server. | N | |
DRDC1-13666 | Problem: Oracle API Gateway does not correctly handle some forms of path versioning. | N | |
| DRDC1-13684 | Problem: Oracle and Axway API Gateway products are not distinguished from one another. Solution: Code fix. | Oracle API Gateway | N |
DRDC1-13738 | Problem: Need greater versioning depth for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise. Solution: Code fix. | McAfee VirusScan McAfee VirusScan for Linux | N |
DRDC1-10099 | Problem: BMC FootPrints has wrong level of product_version. Solution: Code fix. | BMC Client Management | N |
DRDC1-13554 | Problem: Need improved mappings for Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager. Solution: Code fix. | Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager | N |
DRDC1-13564 | Problem: Need better EOL for McAfee Endpoint Security. Solution: Code fix. | McAfee VirusScan for Linux | N |
DRDC1-13712 | Problem: BMC CONTROL-M/CM for Advanced File Transfer should create a link to the host. Solution: Code fix. | BMC CONTROL-M CM for Advanced File Transfer | N |
| DRDC1-13565 | Problem: ParseEOLData for IBM needs to better handle .x data. Solution: ParseEOLData script fix. | ParseEOLData script | N |
| DRDC1-13230 | Problem: ParseEOLData does not get all versions for Oracle Coherence. Solution: Code fix. | NVD Oracle_Product script | N |
| DRDC1-13700 | Problem: ParseEOLData should be smarter at building the index for Cisco products. Solution: Code fix. | NVD Oracle_Product script | N |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU October 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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