24.3 enhancements

If you are new to BMC Discovery, we recommend that you see Getting-started as an introduction to using the product.

Review the BMC Discovery 24.3 (14.1) enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users. 

24.3.00 (14.1)

Synchronization and consolidation of inferred data

Consolidation of the inferred model is used primarily to synchronize data from existing on-premises BMC Discovery appliances into the BMC Helix ecosystem, where other products, such as BMC Helix AIOPs, can use BMC Discovery's rich data.

The inferred model is the model that BMC  creates from directly discovered data (DDD). Where just the inferred model is consolidated—synchronized from one system to another—no DDD from discovered targets is transferred to the receiver. This is important; your company security policies might prohibit sensitive data like DDD from being stored or processed off-site, or you may be preparing to migrate to BMC Helix Discovery. Also, BMC Discovery generates large volumes of DDD, and the consolidation of just the inferred data removes the need to transfer it.

Support for vCenter SSO authentication for VMware guest scanning

You can enable vCenter SSO authentication for VMware guest scanning. This functionality removes the need for individual sets of VMware guest credentials for deep guest OS discovery. BMC Discovery instead leverages VMware’s vCenter ability to use API credentials as part of the existing vCenter discovery to single sign-on into the guests. This capability eliminates the administrative overhead of maintaining guest credentials and improves the efficiency and security of the discovery process. To enable this feature, you must select the vCenter SSO check box when creating a vCenter credential in BMC Discovery. After vCenter SSO is configured on the VMware side, BMC Discovery obtains an SSO token from vCenter for VM guest scanning. 

The following screenshot shows the vCenter SSO enablement option for the VMware vCenter credential:

For more information, see Adding-credentials.

Miscellaneous improvements

The following miscellaneous improvements are available:

• Many network devices only listen on UDP ports. These devices do not respond to prescans, so they might not be detected and consequently not added to the full scan. Select the Prescan IPs option, where you scan specific ranges you know contain many such network devices. The scan will give NoResponse DAs for dark space but successfully detect everything else. See Performing-a-discovery-run for more information.
• An administrative user can delete queries saved by other users. See Saving-and-sharing-queries for more information.

The 24.3 version also applies the Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2024-Jul-1 TKU to DEV and PROD instances and fixes several defects. See BMC-Helix-Discovery-information-for-BMC-Helix-AIOps-users for more information.

What else changed in this release

Change of supported OS for BMC Discovery Outpost

The minimum supported version of the OS for the BMC Discovery Outpost is Windows Server 2016. Before upgrading your BMC Discovery Outposts you must upgrade any BMC Discovery Outpost hosts to Windows Server 2016 and later.