BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2021-Jan-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.3, 12.0 and 20.08 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.

Important Note for Discovery 20.02 (12.0) Customers Only:

Mapping files for synchronization to ServiceNow CMDB

The mapping files for synchronization to ServiceNow CMDB released with the previous version of BMC Discovery no longer work with the updated sync for ServiceNow CMDB. New mapping files are available from EPD. However, to ensure correct operation, you must use the following procedure:

Delete the sync for ServiceNow mappings
Upload the new sync for ServiceNow mappings
Restart the cmdb_sync_transformer service. As the tideway user, enter: tw_service_control --restart cmdb_sync_transformer

Please be aware that in TKU 2021-Jan-1 release the key attribute has been updated for the following node:

Apache Kafka Cluster. Cluster key was changed, as it is now modeled as 'SoftwareCluster', instead of 'SoftwareInstance'. This is part of RFE DRDC1-13969 to discover Kafka Topics which we now support. See below or here the details.

For details of why the SI Key Change field is important, see Key and Command Updates.

Release Highlights

In addition to the support Apache Kafka Topics we have added two and enhanced EOL/NVD features as follows:

Cloud: the Amazon Outpost is now supported. See the documentation here for details.
Edge Connectivity: We now synchronize the relationship between SAN Switches and Storage Systems or Hosts. See the documentation here.
We have increased our coverage for Network Devices EOL data as well as NVD information. Please visit the EDP page and NVD page for details.

Important Note for BMC Discovery

If you use BMC Discovery 12.0 (20.02), you must install Patch 2 before you install the August TKU. More information on the patch is available here, Patch 2 for version 20.02.

Latest Releases Updates

From TKU December we now report security information for hardware where it is published in the US Government National Vulnerability Database.
This is in addition to reporting NVD information for Software Instances, Operating Systems and Network Devices.

We have introduced a new sync mapping pattern that maps Detail nodes with type "TLS Certificate" to the BMC_Document CIs. This mapping is enabled by default, and could add additional data to the CMDB. For more information, see CDM Mapping for Host.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2021-Jan-1 is released in the following streams:

Release compatible with BMC Discovery 11.3 series.
Release compatible with BMC Discovery 12.0 series.
Release compatible with BMC Discovery 20.08 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 11.3.xx, BMC Discovery 12.0.xx and BMC Discovery 20.08 as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system.

BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2021-Jan-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

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
DRDC1-16171	Apache Tomcat	Extra method to find catalina_home attribute	N
DRDC1-16224	PostgreSQL RDBMS	Updated approach to get bind_address.	N
DRDC1-16197	IBM Network Installation Management	Enhanced Discovery scanning for IBM NetworkInstallationManagement pattern.	N
DRDC1-15991	Oracle RDBMS	Improved information extraction from Oracle RDBMS pattern for Oracle Data Guard Cluster.	N
DRDC1-16287	National Vulnerability Database	Enhanced NVD reporting for Cisco devices.	N
DRDC1-16304	National Vulnerability Database	Add new manual mappings for NVD network devices.	N
DRDC1-16303	National Vulnerability Database	Improved NVD mappings handling for F5 networks.	N
DRDC1-16097	IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON	Improvements for the false-positive check for IBMTivoliWebSphere agent (for cases when different products from same family are deployed in same directory). Added an active versioning method for Unix OS. For the current agent (taht can monitor a lot of hosts) was added an additional attribute 'monitored_hosts'.	N
DRDC1-15957	SAP HANA	Improved modeling of a SAP HANA cluster. Updated linking clustered SIs to search them on exact hosts.	N
DRDC1-15881	Oracle MySQL Server	Improved method to identify edition for MySQL.	N
DRDC1-16263	Java Virtual Machine	Improved version information for Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
DRDC1-15074	IBM Informix Dynamic Server	Enhanced IBM Informix Dynamic Servers pattern.	N
DRDC1-13969	Apache Kafka	Apache Kafka has been enhanced. Topics are now discovered and modeled a Details nodes and the active versioning is provided for the patterns. The scope of updates also consists of abilities to extract path to configuration file, options from configuration as well as extracting options from process arguments.	Y
DRDC1-16217	BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack 2021-January-1	Added support details for RuntimeEnvionment.	N
DRDC1-16283	Oracle Solaris Cluster	Improved support detail information (EOL,EOS & EOES) for Oracle Solaris OS.	N
DRDC1-16161	Apache Mesos	Improved discovery for Apache Mesos agent.	N
DRDC1-15889	Micro Focus Server Automation	Updated HP_ServerAutomation tku patterns, including the support of the Micro Focus releases of the product.	N
DRDC1-16367	Control-M	Added modeling listen_ssl_tcp_sockets attributes for Control-M server and agent SoftwareInstances.	N

Defects Resolved

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

Defect ref.	Details	Product Page	SI Key Change
DRDC1-16189	Problem: ECA Error in Tomcat Workers pattern. Solution: Code fix.	Apache Tomcat	N
DRDC1-16195	Problem: We can fail to link a JDBCResource Detail node to a database SI Solution: Code fix.	N/A	N
DRDC1-16170	Problem: Inappropriate configuration handling for IBM DB2 HARD Software discovery. Solution: Code fix.	IBM DB2 RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern	N
DRDC1-16141	Problem: Matching the wrong product version in uncommon output. Solution: Added additional check to make sure the version is valid.	Apache Tomcat	N
DRDC1-16209	Problem: Displaying one Software Instance instead of two while running Sybase 16 and 16.1. Solution: Code fix.	Sybase Adaptive Server IQ	N
DRDC1-16167	Problem: Incorrect version mapping between puppet agent and puppet server for Puppet Enterprise. Solution: Code fix.	Puppet	N
DRDC1-16172	Problem: The Scope value was not set properly for the Subnet nodes. As a result, the Subnet nodes were related between multiple scope environment. Solution: Code fix.	N/A	N

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU January 2021 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.

Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2021-Jan-1