7.8.02: Service Pack 2

This topic contains information about updates and enhancements in this service pack, and provides instructions for downloading and installing the service pack.

Enhancements

This release includes the following enhancements.

Japanese localization of the Operator Control Panel

The Operator Control Panel can now be optionally installed as Japanese “Language Enabled,” meaning all Operator Control Panel menu items, screens, and messages are displayed in Japanese.

For more information on installing the Japanese localized Operator Control Panel, see the following pages:

Operator Control Panel installation worksheet

Installing the Operator Control Panel

Note

Non-English versions of the Operator Control Panel must be installed on servers set up for the associated locale.

Performance improvements

The service pack includes the following performance improvements:

Schedules tab: The performance of the Schedules tab in the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Grid Manager has been optimized, providing a much faster screen loading time.
Repository Manager: The performance of the Repository Manager interface has been optimized to better support organizations that have large number of modules defined, providing a much faster screen loading time.

Security updates

The release includes the following security updates:

Support for ActiveMQ version 5.13.0
Support for Java 8 (SE runtime version 1.8.0_66)
Support for Apache Tomcat 8.0.30

The following secure transport protocol and cipher suites changes are included in this release:

The supported cipher suites have changed
For a list of supported cipher suites, see Cipher suites for 7.8.02 and later.
Support is discontinued for SSL transport protocols
For information about supported transport protocols and configuring your BMC Atrium Orchestrator environment to use them, see Configuring the UI communication channels (Tomcat) and Configuring the internal communication channel (CDP, HA-CDP, AP, and LAP ports).

Configuring workflows to convert JSON to XML

Users can configure existing and new workflows to convert JSON data to XML data. This allows workflows that interact with third party REST services (that use JSON data) to convert the data to XML, so that any required XSLT and XPATH operations can be performed. Users can also convert XML data to JSON before sending the request to a REST service.

For more information, see Configuring a workflow to convert JSON data to XML data.

Updates

This release includes fixes to several known issues. See Known and corrected issues for details.

Graphing server support discontinued

The graphing server component is no longer supported as of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform version 7.8.02.

Supported BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content

If you are performing a new installation of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform versions 7.8.02, install the latest content pack (BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content 20.16.01 Patch 1).

If you are upgrading an existing installation to BMC Atrium Orchestrator to BMC Atrium Orchestrator v7.8.02, you need to upgrade some web services-based adapters due to incompatibilities with Java versions. Review the list of affected web services-based adapters, install the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content 20.16.01 Patch 1, and upgrade the following impacted adapters:

BMC Atrium CMDB adapter
BMC Network Automation adapter
CA Service Desk adapter
HP Service Manager adapter
Web Services adapter

For more information about the patch, see BMC Atrium Orchestrator 20.16.01 Patch 1.

Downloading the service pack

For download instructions, see Downloading the installation files.

For BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform version 7.8 Service Pack 2 compatibility with other supported products, see BMC Solution and Product Availability and Compatibility Utility (SPAC requires a Support login). Log in using your support ID, search for BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform and choose the current release to display compatibility information.

Installing the service pack

To install the service pack, follow the instructions in the Installing topic.

Important

If your BMC Atrium Orchestrator environment will use HTTPS, ensure that your environment supports TLS secure transport protocol before installing BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform version 7.8 Service Pack 2.

Upgrading the service pack

To upgrade the service pack, follow the instructions in the Upgrading topic.