Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2023-Oct-1


BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2023-Oct-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 20.08, 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, and 23.3 versions of BMC Discovery.

Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering:

Cloud

  • AWS: Improved the Name of CloudRegion and CloudProvider nodes to be more descriptive. For more details, see (DRDC1-21512) and the documentation here.
  • AWS: Added support for External ID in AWS credentials.  For more details, see (DRDC1-19282).
  • OCI: Updated the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provider to display only OCI regions pertaining to a specific tenant and realm. For more details, see (DRDC1-21615) and the documentation here.

CMDB

  • Added a pattern for the synchronization of EOL dates to the CMDB. Note that this requires the CMDB to be extended to support the following new attributes: EndOfExtendedSupport, EndOfLife, EndOfSecuritySupport, and EndOfSupport. For more details, see (DRDC1-21798) and the documentationhere andhere.

  • Enhanced the CMDB synchronization between IP Address and Network InterfaceFor more details, see (DRDC1-21536) and the documentation here.
  • Improved the discovery of the vSAN storage system model in CMDB. For more details, see (DRDC1-21827) and the documentation here.

Network devices

  • Added support for Stack Switches for Huawei devices. For more details, see (DRDC1-20135) and the documentation here.

Storage

  • Added support for the discovery of Dell EMC SC Series through REST API. For more details, see (DRDC1-20997) and the documentation here.

Patterns

  • Added mac_addrs attribute to VMware VMs. For more details, see (DRDC1-21703).

Latest releases updates

You can find information about the latest TKU updates and essential notes in the Schedule-and-Roadmap.

  • TLS Certificate checking: BMC Discovery and the BMC Discovery Outpost check the TLS certificate against GCP. You can clear the check box to disable the TLS certificate and check if the certificate is invalid. In such a case, be aware that a hacker attack could intercept your credentials.

Release compatibility

TKU 2023-Oct-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 20.08, 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, and 23.3.

Download

Customers can access this TKU release from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. If you are a customer or partner without a login, contact your BMC account manager.

Learn how to download from the BMC EPD site from this guideline.

Release contents

The release comprises components packaged as the following entities:

  • BMC-Discovery-Extended-Data-Pack-2023-Oct-1
    • Hardware Reference Data - Patterns and data import CSV file that populates 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.
    • Product Lifecycle - Patterns that populate BMC Discovery with information about End-of-Life, End-of-Support, and End-of-Extended-Support for versions of specific host Operating Systems and interpretations of certain software products.
  • BMC Discovery for Storage is a separately licensable product.
    • Storage Systems - Patterns that model many Storage Systems.
    • Storage System Release Notes provides the latest Storage updates and improvements to existing Storage patterns.

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering all commands executed and files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU 2023-Oct-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

Defect ref.

Description

Notes

DRUD1-42393

Added support for FIPS.

N/A

DRUD1-42295

Fixed an issue with Thycotic credentials encryption.

N/A

DRUD1-42424

Fixed an issue with the discovery of Linux hosts with SSH. 

N/A

DRUD1-42129

Fixed an issue with CyberArk AIM.

N/A

Products

The following new products are introduced within the scope of this release.

RFEs

The following RFEs are introduced within the scope of this release.

Defects resolved

The following defects are fixed within the scope of this release.