Technical bulletin: Announcing Patch 20.02.01

Patch 20.02.01 is now available for TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation. The patch provides a few enhancements and defect fixes. It includes the following components:

TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation 20.02.01 (Solution)
Component	Version
TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse	20.02.01
TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform	20.02.01

Known and corrected issues

For information about the issues corrected in this patch, see Known and corrected issues Open link .

Enhancements

This patch provides the following enhancements:

New dashboards

TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation provides the following new dashboards: Inventory, Compliance, Patch, Job Activity, and Health

The Inventory, Compliance, Patch, and Job Activity dashboards display the summarized and detailed domain-specific information. The Health dashboard provides information about the status of the TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse configuration settings.

For details, see Dashboards for the TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse.

New ETL utility

The utility that is used for the ETL process has changed from Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) to BMC Data Integrator (BDI). To view the related changes in the post-installation configuration GUI, see Configuring TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse.

Enhanced LDAP authentication

You can now configure the LDAP authentication to accept a short and simple alias of an LDAP user name apart from the fully distinguished user name. TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse automatically determines the corresponding distinguished name and approves the LDAP authentication. For details, see LDAP authentication.

Support for new operating systems and databases

TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse now supports the following operating systems and databases:

RHEL 8
SQL Server 2019
Oracle 18c RAC
Oracle 19c RAC

For a complete list of operating systems and databases, see System requirements for TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse.

Component version updates

With this patch, the version of the following components is updated to 20.02.01:

Authentication Server
Reporting content
TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse

TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse 20.02.01 supports:

TrueSight Server Automation 20.02.01
TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 20.02 and 20.02.01

For more information about the version compatibility of these products, see Compatibility matrix.

Downloading the patch

This patch includes the full installer of TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse 20.02.01 and the patch installer for TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 20.02.01.

For information about downloading the installation files, see the following topics:

Applying the patch

The following table explains the various scenarios for applying the patch:

Scenario	Perform these steps
You are using BMC Decision Support for Server Automation and want to migrate to TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse.	Migrate from BMC Decision Support for Server Automation.
Your environment does not contain TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse or BMC Decision Support for Server Automation.	Install TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse. Install TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform . Apply TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 20.02.01 patch .
You already have TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation 19.2, 19.2.01, or 19.2.02 in your environment.	If you are using TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation 19.2.01 or earlier version: Upgrade TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse. Upgrade TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform to 20.02 . Apply TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 20.02.01 patch . Complete the post-upgrade tasks. If you are using TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation 19.2.02: Upgrade TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse. Apply TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 20.02.01 patch . Complete the post-upgrade tasks.