Up to date and accurate discovered information
BMC Discovery updates
BMC Discoveryusers have two instances by default, a Development instance, and a Production instance. We push updates to Development instances each week, on a Wednesday, and the same update to Production instances the following week.
The updates made to the Development and Production instances of BMC Discovery are shown in Recent-updates, including the release number, the dates that the release was pushed to Development and Production, and any defects resolved or new features introduced in the release.
The Knowledge Update (TKU) version is updated on the first Wednesday of each month, at the same time as the regular weekly update. Consequently, for one week, the TKU version in the Development instance is ahead of that in the Production instance. The current TKU version for Development and Production instances is also shown in Recent-updates.
You can see more information on TKU content and schedules in BMC Helix Discovery content reference.
Discovering cloud services
BMC Discoveryprovides cloud scanning capabilities creating a dynamic, holistic view of data center infrastructure, cloud services, and their relationships. This gives visibility into how multi-cloud environments enable the digital business.
BMC Discoverycan discover multi-cloud environments thanks to BMC’s partnership with both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). BMC Discovery takes an agnostic approach to representing the multi-cloud assets and relationships. It can map assets and their dependencies to represent data center, public cloud, and private cloud environments. BMC performs this deep discovery in a cloud-friendly manner, leveraging APIs and agentless protocols. This allows for a holistic view of the entire IT environment, including hybrid application deployments.
Data provenance
Data accuracy you can verify and trust. For an automated discovery tool to be trusted and accepted by the user community, it must provide transparency into how the data was obtained. BMC Discovery’s Provenance feature shows the actual command that was executed, the output of the command, and the timestamp when it happened. There’s no searching through log files – all this information is available right in the UI.
Provenance provides indisputable evidence why this data can be trusted and thus speeds adoption of the data into IT processes.
Exhaustive pattern library
The BMC Discovery library includes over 650 patterns for industry leading software such as Oracle, SAP, IBM, HP, VMware, Hadoop, Citrix and more. New patterns are added monthly. With BMC Discovery, it’s easy to fine-tune and extend the discovery process to meet the needs of your organization. Discover additional attributes, custom software, uncommon SNMP devices and more. Simply modify a discovery pattern or use one of the supplied pattern templates. All patterns are text-based and extending a pattern is as easy as modifying a script or batch file.