Release notes and notices

The first release of BMC Discovery 20.02 (12.0) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7). This release contains the same fixes and features as 20.02 (12.0) on CentOS 7.

Issues that were corrected by this patch and issues that remain open.

The patch also enables you to select where a discovery run is performed from, this could be any registered and enabled BMC Discovery Outpost or the discovery service (local appliance).

This release of BMC Discovery provides the following enhancements:

• A new lightweight Windows service BMC Discovery Outpost for discovery of all types of devices.
• A new type of credential, Data Sources, to add static sources of information. Data Sources replace Integration Points used in previous releases.
• Enhanced credentials UI, where the selection of credential types to add is streamlined.
• New integrations with third-party credential managers.
• Mandatory HTTPS connections to the appliance.
• 10–20% performance gain for scanning.
  
• Support for Sync for ServiceNow CMDB.
• Improvements in SNMP discovery.
• Support for discovering additional devices by using REST API.

For additional information, refer to the following topics:

• Important information for users of BMC CMDB
• Supported versions of BMC Discovery
• Limitations and restrictions of this version