Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2021-May-1
BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2021-May-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 12.0 and 20.08 series.
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 synchronization for ServiceNow CMDB. New mapping files are available from EPD. However, to ensure correct operation, you must use the following procedure:
- Delete the synchronization for ServiceNow mappings.
- Upload the new synchronization for ServiceNow mappings.
Restart the cmdb_sync_transformer service. As the tideway user, enter:
tw_service_control --restart cmdb_sync_transformer.
End of Support date for version 11.3
TKU 2021- Apr-1 was the final release with support for Discovery 11.3 version.
For more information, see Supported versions of BMC Discovery.
Discovery for Microsoft Failover Group
TKU May release comes with discovery for Microsoft Failover Group.
For details, see Microsoft Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Server.
Discovery for Azure Subscriptions and Management Groups
This release also comes with discovery for Azure Subscriptions and Management Groups hierarchy.
For details, see Microsoft Azure Tenants.
Edge connectivity
TKU April was released with important enhancement for Edge connectivity feature by using LLDP information (DRDC1-16191).
For more information, see Edge connectivity.
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.
Important Note for BMC Discovery
If you are discovering MemSQL software product, be aware that in this release we have changed the key of the SoftwareInstance to support specific configurations. If you are using the default port there will be no impact of the data though.
Latest Releases Updates
- TKU April release had important improvements to support the Oracle Pluggable Databases ("PDBs"). For details, see Oracle RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern and Oracle Database - Change History.
- In TKU April release we have fixed issue with the Oracle pattern running subshell commands with sudo. As a solution, the pattern has been updated to prevent running commands with sudo.
In this specific case, the Discovery user needs to be granted rights to execute the "lsnrctl status" commands, as the product itself (Oracle DB) disallows running that kind of commands as root.
For details, see Oracle Database. - From TKU March we synchronize the F5 Load Balancer certificates to the CMDB. For more information about it, please visit this page CDM Mapping for Host.
Global information about TLS Certificates discovery can be found in this new page 2022-09-07_03-40-45_Supported TLS Certificates. - 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 synchronization 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-May-1 is released in the following streams:
- 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 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-May-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.
Products
The following new products have been introduced in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowdstrike | FalconSensor | Secure Content and Threat Management | Windows, Unix | N | Y | CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor |
RFEs
RFE ref. | Enhancement | Product Page | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-15340 | Updated Microsoft.MSCluster.MicrosoftCluster pattern to associate RHS process. | Microsoft Cluster Server | N |
| DRDC1-16680 | Enhanced Discovery Proxy Worker Processes. | BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping | N |
| DRDC1-16712 | Enhanced Oracle Weblogic Software Cluster. Add a check for partial domain name during cluster creation. | BEA WebLogic Application Server | N |
| DRDC1-16221 | Enhanced modelling for RHV Cluster. | RHEV | N |
| DRDC1-15276 | Provided support for iRules in F5 Load Balancer (LB). | Discovering Load Balancers Avi Networks Load Balancer | N |
| DRDC1-16653 | Improve Apache webserver path versioning | Apache HTTPD-based Webservers | N |
| DRDC1-16799 | Enhanced Apache Tomcat version identification. | Apache Tomcat | N |
| DRDC1-15613 | Improved discovery for .Net Core Runtime Environment. | Microsoft .NET | N |
| DRDC1-12763, DRDC1-9806 | Improved modelling for SAP Hanna Software Instance. | SAP HANA | N |
| DRDC1-16749 | Provided optional listDirectory database discovery for MySQL. | Oracle MySQL Server - Database Detail Pattern | N |
| DRDC1-16715 | Enhanced Apache Tomcat pattern. | Apache Tomcat | N |
| DRDC1-16648 | Updated VMwareHorizon pattern. | VMware Horizon | N |
| DRDC1-16782 | Provided discovery for every instance per listening port on servers with multiple ports. | MemSQL | Y |
| DRDC1-16806 | Added support details for a list of software's. | Technology Knowledge Update 2021-May-1- Command/File/DBQueries Matrix | N |
| DRDC1-16640 | Stop hosts running RightFax creating too many candidate SIs. | OpenText Fax Server | N |
| DRDC1-16793 | Added hardware support details when hardware model is set to "Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140" in Hardware Reference Data. | Hardware Reference Data page | N |
| DRDC1-16705 | Added EOL dates for the following IBM Power System Host Containers models: 9117-MMC, 9179-MHB, 9117-MMB, 8284-22A, 9009-22A. | Host Container Life Cycle Patterns - Extended Data Pack 2021-May-1 | N |
| DRDC1-16694 | Added EOL dates for OS Linux Mint. | OS Product Life Cycle Patterns - Extended Data Pack 2021-May-1 | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-16673, DRDC1-16745 | Problem: PSU version is populated with a very long string instead of the most recent version. | N | |
| DRDC1-16781 | Problem: Incorrect relationship created between Hardware Container and Network Device. | N | |
| DRDC1-16710 | Problem: Nginx LoadBalancer ECA when port range is set in 'listen' block. | N | |
| DRDC1-16743 | Problem: JBoss JDBCResource does not get all information available in the JDBC URL. | Red Hat JBoss Application Server | N |
DRDC1-16752 | Problem: RCSD pattern has typo in short_name: TrueSioght. | N | |
DRDC1-16704 | Problem: Some Solaris Hosts have two HostContainers. | N | |
DRDC1-16772 | Problem: Regex extraction in PostgreSQL core pattern doesn't work for Windows. | N | |
| DRDC1-16769 | Problem: Link to NVD website does not work for CPE strings without version. Solution: Code fix. | National Vulnerability Database | N |
| DRDC1-16717 | Problem: Missing embedded command/file matrix comment in CA XCOM Data Transport. Solution: Code fix. | CA XCOM Data Transport | N |
| DRDC1-16728 | Problem: Incorrect EOSL dates for Cisco B200 M4, B420 M4, B260 M4 and B460 M4. Solution: Code fix. | Network Device Life Cycle Patterns - Extended Data Pack 2021-May-1 | N |
| DRDC1-16721 | Problem: Apache Kafka pattern causing the reasoning persist (pq) files to grow to 1-2gig each. Solution: Code fix. | Apache Kafka | N |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU May 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.
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