20.16.01 enhancements

This topic contains information about the enhancements in version 20.16.01 of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content.

Tip

For information about issues corrected in this release, see Known-and-corrected-issues.

Version 20.16.01 provides the following enhancements:

Content – Platform compatibility

BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content 20.16.01 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform:

7.8.01
7.8
7.7.02
7.7.01
7.7
7.6.03

Application adapter enhancements

The following enhancements are made to the application adapters in this release.

Support for BMC Remedy Action Request System 9.1

BMC Remedy AR System application adapter now supports BMC Remedy Action Request System 9.1. All configurations and workflows remain unchanged.

For a list of supported versions, see Supported-versions-of-BMC-Remedy-AR-System.

Support for BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database 9.1

BMC Atrium CMDB application adapter now supports BMC Atrium CMDB 9.1. All configurations and workflows remain unchanged.

For a list of supported versions, see Supported-versions-of-BMC-Atrium-CMDB.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management adapter certified with BMC TrueSight Operations Management 10.0

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management application adapter now supports BMC TrueSight Operations Management 10.0.

For a list of supported versions, see Supported-versions-of-BPPM.

Microsoft Active Directory adapter certified with Microsoft Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Active Directory application adapter now supports Microsoft Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

For a list of supported versions, see Supported-versions-of-Microsoft-Active-Directory.

Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, 2013, and 2016 for the Microsoft Exchange adapter

The Microsoft Exchange adapter now supports Microsoft Exchange Server versions 2010, 2013, and 2016.

The following new operations are added for the newly supported versions:

Database Availability Group Management operations
Mailbox Management operations

The following operations are only supported by Microsoft Exchange Server version 2007:

The Import-Mailbox-operation and the Export-Mailbox-operation support Microsoft Exchange Server versions 2007 and 2010 (RTM only). For later versions, you can use the New Mailbox Import Request operation and the New Mailbox Export Request operation respectively.

For more information, see the Microsoft-Exchange-adapter.

New VMware Infrastructure adapter workflow for retrieving selected cluster configuration properties

A new Retrieve Selected Cluster Configuration Properties operation is added to the Cluster_Operations processes for the VMware Infrastructure adapter. The existing Retrieve Cluster Configuration operation retrieves all path properties of a given cluster, which results in huge amount of data in the adapter response depending on the VMware vCenter configuration. Unable to process a huge response, the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio might stop working. BMC recommends that you use the new operation to retrieve cluster configuration properties that match your specified criteria.

For more information see Retrieve-Selected-Cluster-Configuration-Properties.

Base adapter enhancements

The following enhancements are made to the base adapters in this release.

PowerShell adapter supports specifying special characters in the password

You can now specify special characters such as @, #, $, %, ^, *, {, }, and so on in the <password> element in the PowerShell adapter request.

For more information, see PowerShell-adapter.

PowerShell adapter supports redirecting error streams to the success output streams

A new element, Redirect Error Stream to Success Output Stream is added to the PowerShell adapter configuration, which enables you to redirect the command output error stream to the success output stream. The PowerShell adapter uses the xCMD utility to connect to the Windows System remotely to perform PowerShell commands. Since the xCMD utility only consumes output streams, it fails to process the data written on error streams and the actual output is not processed by the xCMD utility and reports an error. This problem occurs while executing the PowerShell Module cmd-lets version 3.0 and later.

For more information, see Configuring-the-PowerShell-adapter.

Mail adapters support to determine the type of recipient in the email event

As per the current design of adapter event, all the recipients types of TO and CC are added in the <email-address>, element, which does not differentiate the recipient type. A new element <recipient-type> is added to the <email-address> element in the POP and IMAP monitor adapters, which specifies the type of recipient in the email event.

For more information about the POP adapter, see Adapter-event-for-the-POP-adapter. For more information about the IMAP adapter, see Adapter-event-for-the-IMAP-adapter.

SSH, SCP, and SFTP adapters now support BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping 10.2

The SSH, SCP, and SFTP adapters support BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping version 10.2. The underlying Maverick API library is upgraded to version 1.6.12.

Run book enhancements

The following enhancements are made to the run books in this release.

Continuous Compliance for Databases run book certified with BMC Database Automation 8.7 and BMC Remedy ITSM Suite 9.0

The BMC Continuous Compliance for Databases run book now supports BMC Database Automation 8.7 and BMC Remedy IT Service Management suite 9.0. All artifacts and BMC Remedy AR System configurations remain unchanged.

Continuous Compliance for Networks run book certified with BMC Network Automation 8.7 and BMC Remedy ITSM Suite 9.0

The BMC Continuous Compliance for Networks run book now supports BMC Network Automation 8.7 and BMC Remedy IT Service Management suite 9.0. All artifacts and BMC Remedy AR System configurations remain unchanged.