BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2020-Jul-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3, and 12.0 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.

Cisco UCS discovery update

Cisco UCS are modeled as HostContainer in Discovery and exported as BMC_ComputerSystem in CMDB. Their names were not unique, which was causing some trouble in the CMDB. Now to prevent the issue, Serial Number value is used in the name attribute.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2020-Jul-1 is released in the following streams:

Release compatible with BMC Discovery 11.x series.
Release compatible with BMC Discovery 12.0 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 guideline if you are unsure how to download from BMC EPD site.

Release 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, BMC Discovery 11.3.xx, and BMC Discovery 12.0.xx as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system.

BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2020-Jul-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

Products

Vendor	Product	Category	Platforms	Instances	Versioning	Product Page
CyberArk	CyberArk Privileged Access Security	Identity and Access Management	Unix Windows	Y	Y	CyberArk Privileged Access Security
Appian	Appian	Business Rules Management Systems	Windows UNIX	Y	Y	Appian

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
DRDC1-14735, DRDC1-15004, DRDC1-14793, DRDC1-14999, DRDC1-15120	Oracle RDBMS	Updated patterns: Unique name assignment, Listener removal, regex for RU number, Active versioning regex, Domain extraction.	N
DRDC1-15142	Apache HTTPD-based Webservers Apache HTTPD-based Webservers - Extended Discovery Pattern	Updated active command to ignore warnings or errors.	N
DRDC1-15296	Tableau	Enabled creation of a Cluster for Tableau Software Instance.	N
DRDC1-14224, DRDC1-14935	Oracle Engineered Systems	Configuration parser enhancement for Oracle SuperCluster.	N
DRDC1-15187		Updated SearchFunction.getNodeIp with 'getent' command.	N
DRDC1-15013	Oracle Clusterware Oracle RDBMS Oracle Data Guard	Updated Related Oracle processes identification.	N
DRDC1-15274	OpenText EnCase Forensic	Added versioning for Unix platform.	N
DRDC1-15164	PostgreSQL RDBMS	Added Fujitsu publisher.	N
DRDC1-15246	Microsoft Internet Information Services - Extended Discovery	Enhanced relationship between WebSite and WebApplication Software Components.	N
DRDC1-14927	PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern	Provided better ordering of database discovery methods for PostgreSQL.	N
DRDC1-13553	Apache HTTPD-based Webservers	Provided the ability for ApacheBasedWebservers pattern to detect reverse proxy setup and model correct relationships to or from the triggering SI/SC.	N
DRDC1-14964	CA Directory	Support details are populated in CA Directory.	N
DRDC1-14905, DRDC1-15005	EMC Data Domain Storage Systems EMC Data Domain Storage Discovered Information	Provided discovery support for new File Systems of type DD Boost.	N
DRDC1-15293	Cisco	Improved product_ID collection for Cisco devices.	N
DRDC1-15169	Flexera FLEXnet Publisher	Version information is populated for Flexera FLEXnet Publisher License Server Manager.	N
DRDC1-14663	IBM WebSphere Application Server	Identification for the installed Fix Packs for IBM WebSphere Application Server.	N
DRDC1-15356	Red Hat Directory Server	Populated OS support details for Red Hat Linux 7.8.	N
DRDC1-14474	Kubernetes	Provided support for HA mode.	N
DRDC1-14846	Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services	Enhanced Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services versioning.	N
DRDC1-14654	Oracle MySQL Server	Improved MySQL_AB.MySQL_RDBMS datadir regex extraction.	N

Defects Resolved

The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.

Defect ref.	Details	Product Page	SI Key Change
DRDC1-15223	Problem: Misidentified Logstash install_root. Solution: Updated regex to extract install_root.	Logstash	N
DRDC1-15216	Problem: IBM DB2 database discovery cannot discover table and schema details. Solution: Code fix.	IBM DB2 RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern	N
DRDC1-15275	Problem: PerformanceManager pattern cannot match the version. Solution: Enhanced PatrolKM SC to Performance Manager SI mapping.	BMC Patrol Agent BMC Performance Manager	N
DRDC1-15259	Problem: No num_sockets and cores_per_socket attributes on Linux servers. Solution: Code fix.	Processor Information	N
DRDC1-15212	Problem: Pattern Teradata.Teradata_Extended.DatabasesAndTables is identifying users as databases. Solution: Code fix.	Teradata DB - Database Detail Pattern	N
DRDC1-15191	Problem: SCCM pattern version table error. Solution: Fixed product_version mapping.	Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager	N
DRDC1-15242	Problem: Weblogic Application Server pattern does not identify bea_home correctly. Solution: Code fix.	Oracle WebLogic Server	N
DRDC1-15323	Problem: Enabled pattern slows down the performance. Solution: Code fix.	Scheduled Tasks Information	N
DRDC1-15261	Problem: NAS Physical Servers should not shot Virtual Field set to "YES". Solution: Code fix.	NetApp Storage Systems	N
DRDC1-15226	Problem: Physical Storage Systems managed by the virtual Storage Device should not be marked as virtual. Solution: Code fix.	NetApp Storage Systems	N
DRDC1-15392	Problem: BOA: Device intergation Fortinet FortiManager (1.3.6.1.4.1.12356.103.1.64) missing Virtual = Yes Solution: Code fix.	Network Device, Printer and SNMP Managed Device Definitions - 2020-Jul-1	N
DRDC1-15365	Problem: The consumed capacity of the StoragePool node was not calculated properly. Solution: Code fix.	IBM SVC/Storwize Storage Systems	N

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU July 2020 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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