BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2016-Aug-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and BMC Discovery 11.0 series.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2016-Aug-1 is released in the following streams:

• Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 10.x series
• 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 Device definition files
  • System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions (Atrium Discovery 10.0.xx, Atrium Discovery 10.1.xx,  Atrium Discovery 10.2.xx and BMC Discovery 11.0.xx) as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system

• BMC Atrium Discovery Extended Data Pack, 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 Systems Release Notes page.

Installation and Upgrade

• Atrium Discovery 10.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
• Atrium Discovery 10.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
• Atrium Discovery 10.2 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
• BMC Discovery 11.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here

Products

Enhanced Pattern Modules for Cluster Awareness in BMC Discovery 11.x series

BMC Discovery 11.0.x  introduces a new extended cluster discovery.

Cluster Modeling approaches and Key changes:

1. Clustering Platform  that generate a Cluster Node. In most cases the Key doesn’t change.
2. 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.
3. 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.

(For details of why the SI key change is important, please see this documentation)

Enhanced Pattern Modules

For details of why the SI key change is important, please see this documentation

RFEs

Defects Resolved

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

Command/File Matrix

The main command/file matrix documentation is accessible from the Got a Problem to Solve?  page or directly from here.