• Feature updates
• Defects
• Changes to discovery commands
• Model changes

Technology-Knowledge-Update-TKU-2023-Aug-1 contains additional product content for the BMC Discovery 12.0, 20.08, 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, and 23.1 series.

For more information about Cloud Discovery, see Supported-Cloud-Providers. 

Feature updates

The following features and enhancements are introduced within the scope of this release: 

1. CLOUD/AWS: Added manufacturer information for the AdminCollection and CloudManagementGroup nodes. For more details, see (DRDC1-21486).
2. CLOUD/AWS: Added support for the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud gateways. For more details, see (DRDC1-13634) and the documentation here.
3. CLOUD/AWS: Added vm_name and vm_type attributes of AWS WorkSpace VirtualMachine nodes. For more details, see (DRDC1-21485) and the documentation here.
4. CLOUD/AWS: Updated AWS patterns to populate the 'iscloud' attribute. For more details, see (DRDC1-20876) and the documentation here.
5. CLOUD/AZURE: Added a relationship between the Wallix Session Manager device and virtual machine hosted on Microsoft Azure. For more details, see (DRDC1-21448) and the documentation here.
6. CLOUD/OCI: Fixed an issue with incorrectly discovered Oracle Cloud Infrastructure databases. For more details, see (DRDC1-21519) and the documentation here.
7. HOST: Added support for the aging feature for the hosts discovered through the API provider. For more details, see (DRDC1-20380).
8. HOST: Enhanced the discovery script of the EC2 host model. For more details, see (DRDC1-21370).
9. HOST: Improved the discovery of Ubuntu servers. For more details, see (DRDC1-21484).
10. STORAGE: Added full support for the HPE StoreOnce storage device discovery. For more details, see (DRDC1-21493) and the documentation here.
11. STORAGE: Added support for the discovery of Ceph storage systems directly as a storage device by using the Ceph API access. For more details, see (DRDC1-20802) and documentation here.
12. STORAGE: Added support for IBM Spectrum Control storage systems through IBM Spectrum Control. For more details, see (DRDC1-21160) and the documentation here.
13. STORAGE: Enhanced the discovery of IBM DS8000 Storage Systems. For more details, see (DRDC1-21520, DRDC1-21576) and the documentation here.
14. STORAGE: Enhanced the discovery of Pure Storage FlashArray Storage Systems by increasing the timeout of the REST API request. For more details, see (DRDC1-21559) and the documentation here.
15. VAULT: Added an ability to customize the username format in CyberArk credentials. For more details, see (DRUD1-40301) and the documentation here.

Defects

The following defect was fixed within the scope of this release: 

1. CLOUD/OPENSTACK: Fixed an issue with non-discovered load balancer services upon the first OpenStack scan. For more details, see (DRDC1-21552) and the documentation here.
2. HOST: Added a relationship between BMC_PRODUCT and BMC_SOFTWARESERVER for RuntimeEnvironment to fix a CMDB sync issue. For more details, see (DRDC1-21546).
3. HOST: Enhanced the getProcessList platform script for Solaris. For more details, see (DRDC1-21594).
4. HOST/POWERSHELL: Added a fix for the PowerShell command output (CimInstance) parsing issue. For more details, see DRUD1-41832).

Changes to discovery commands

Discovery commands are unchanged in Product Content 2023-Aug-1.

Model changes

Taxonomy has been updated for:

1. EOL: Taxonomy has been updated to add visibility to the Retirement Date defaulted to EOS date attribute in the SupportDetail node's summary. For more details, see (DRDC1-20730).
2. NETWORK DEVICES: Taxonomy has been updated to add a relationship from the ManagementController node to the SupportDetail node. For more details, see (DRDC1-21551).
3. STORAGE DEVICES: Taxonomy has been updated to add a StorageDevice relationship to the Detail node. For more details, see (DRDC1-21480).