BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2016-Dec-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and BMC Discovery 11.0 series.
Extended Discovery
Since October 2016 we have documented the list of "Extended Discovery" patterns here. These patterns are used for in-depth discovery and often have associated configurations which are described in the documentation. Please use the documentation to take full advantage of these Extended Discovery patterns.
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) has been enhanced and is now being shipped in the modern Microsoft Excel format of .xlsx rather than the older .xls.
From TKU August 2016 onwards, it is downloadable from Configipedia only. See below at the bottom.
The command/file matrix main documentation is accessible from the Got a Problem to Solve? page or directly from here.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2016-Dec-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.
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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, BMC Discovery 11.0.xx, and BMC Discovery 11.1) 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
- BMC Discovery 11.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
Products
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | IBM Netezza NzAdmin | Process Automation Middleware | Windows | Y | Y | IBM Netezza NzAdmin |
| IBM | IBM Watson Explorer | Other Application Server Middleware | UNIX Windows | Y | Y | IBM Watson Explorer |
| MuleSoft | MuleSoft Mule runtime engine | Enterprise Service Bus and Connectivity Middleware | Unix Windows | Y | Y | MuleSoft Mule runtime engine |
| VMware | VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions | Clustering and Availability Software | UNIX | Y | Y | VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions |
| Oracle | Oracle Exadata Database Machine | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems | ||
| Oracle | Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems | ||
| Oracle | Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems | ||
| Oracle | Oracle Big Data Appliance | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems | ||
| Oracle | Oracle SuperCluster | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems | ||
| Oracle | Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems | ||
| Oracle | Oracle Private Cloud Appliance | Blade Systems | UNIX | Oracle Engineered Systems |
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:
- Clustering Platform that generate a Cluster Node. In most cases the Key doesn’t change.
- 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.
- 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-7528 | Apache Tomcat Oracle WebLogic Server IBM WebSphere Application Server Apache HTTPD-based Webservers - Extended Discovery Pattern | Discover SSL Certificates. Added listen_ssl_tcp_sockets attribute. | N |
| DRDC1-6928, DRDC1-6902 | IBM WebSphereMQ Cluster | Numerous updates for WebSphere MQ Cluster. | N |
| DRDC1-7519 | IBM WebSphere Application Server | Websphere pattern cannot obtain patch and fix pack because of wrong option in grep command. | N |
| DRDC1-6317 | IBM HMC | Change to POWER discovery. | N |
| Software AG webMethods Integration Server | Minor updates. | N | |
| DRDC1-7252 | BMC Atrium CMDB | CMDB versioning updated. | N |
| DRDC1-7393 | Nagios Suite | Added versioning commands with LD_LIBRARY_PATH path. | N |
| DRDC1-7215 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Sun Cluster/LDOM enhancements. | N |
| DRDC1-5625 | IBM PowerHA | We should put the full product title in the type for IBM HACMP products. | N |
| DRDC1-6949 | Microsoft SQL Server | Updated MS SQL Server version mappings. | N |
| Case 00253635 (Esc 099445) | Microsoft Exchange Server | Added support for 2016 version. | N |
| DRDC1-7516 | SAS Server | SAS Server pattern updated to be cluster aware when running on AIX HACMP switch. | Y |
| DRDC1-7527 | Red Hat JBoss Application Server | Provided enhanced versioning methods and updated approaches for Jboss application and JDBC resources extraction. | N |
| DRDC1-7484 | Cloudera CDH Cloudera Manager | Cloudera various updates. | N |
| DRDC1-7467 | Citrix XenServer | Added support for XenServer version 7. | N |
| Case 00234378 (Esc 097035) | Puppet | Versioning for Puppet updated. | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect No | Details | Product Page |
|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-7476 | Problem: Apache Tomcat pattern fails to extract catalina_base. Solution: Code fix. | Apache Tomcat |
DRDC1-7213 | Problem: model.host is "just wrong" in patterns for SIs which can be on clusters. | BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization |
| Case 00173682 (Esc 094983) | Problem: ECA Errors during various Oracle discovery. Solution: Code fix. | Oracle RDBMS |
| Case 00227178 (Esc 097495) | Problem: Some BladeLogic processes missing. Solution: Code fix. | BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite |
| Case 00198506 (Esc 096778) | Problem: Lost CMDB CI relation by AIX HACMP switch. Solution: Partial code fix. | IBM DB2 RDBMS IBM PowerHA |
| Case 00217335 (Esc 095996) | Problem: MS Exchange Server 2010 - Incorrect version displayed. Solution: Code fix. | Microsoft Exchange Server |
| Case 00182657 (Esc 096943) | Problem: Oracle RAC host node may be empty. Solution: Code fix. | Oracle RDBMS |
| DRDC1-7434 | Problem: Small fixes in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management needed. Solution: Code fix. | IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server |
| DRDC1-6903 | Problem: Alias Queues are not listed Solution: Code fix. | IBM WebSphere MQ - Extended Discovery |
| DRDC1-6928 | Problem: Missing MQ Cluster members Solution: Code fix. | IBM WebSphere MQ - Extended Discovery |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU December 2016 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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