Product content TKU 2024-May-1

Technology-Knowledge-Update-TKU-2024-May-1 contains additional product content for the 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, and 24.2 versions of BMC Discovery.

Product content updates require appliance restart

This TKU release contains product content additions. The appliance is restarted when product content is added to the update. You can prevent the restart, but none of the knowledge content will be installed if you do so.

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:

CLOUD/AWS: Optimized AWS scanning with large numbers of Route 53 instances. For more details, see (DRDC1-22641) and the documentation here.
CLOUD/AZURE: Added a NetworkService node for each Azure DNS Zone and Azure DNS Private Zone. For more details, see (DRDC1-23048) and the documentation here.
CLOUD/AZURE: Added support for Azure Event Hubs deep discovery. For more details, see (DRDC1-23049) and the documentation here.
CLOUD/OCI: Added support for OCI cross-tenancy API user authentication. For more details, see (DRDC1-22361) and the documentation here.
NETWORK DEVICES: Added support for the implicit scanning of the Cisco Meraki dashboard API. For more details, see (DRDC1-17769) and the documentation here andhere.
NETWORK DEVICES: Updated the OS Classifier for IBM AS 400. For more details, see (DRDC1-23335).
STORAGE: Added DNS Domain to StorageDevice/StorageSystem in the following patterns (for more details, see (DRDC1-23151):
STORAGE: NetApp Storage (REST API): Added the following attributes to the Storage Processor node (for more details, see (DRDC1-23079) and the documentation here):
- Number of Processors{}
- Processor Speed
- Processor Type
STORAGE: The "Allocated Capacity" attribute of Storage System nodes will be deprecated in TKU March 2025. Added the "Total Logical Consumed Capacity" attribute in the Dell EMC PowerMax and Dell EMC SC Series patterns. It is identical to the "Allocated Capacity" attribute. Also, added the "Total Logical Consumed Capacity" attribute to the IBM FlashSystem pattern. For more details, see (DRDC1-22592).

Defects

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

CLOUD/KUBERNETES: Fixed an issue with missing master node SIs on the AKS clusters. For more details, see (DRDC1-23243).
CLOUD/OCI: Fixed an issue with an extra whitespace in the Oracle Database SI's name. For more details, see (DRDC1-23258).
CLOUD/OCI: Fixed an issue with incorrect values of the ip_addr and ip_addrs attributes created by the OCI Load Balancer. For more details, see (DRDC1-23136).

Changes to discovery commands

Discovery commands are unchanged in Product Content 2024-May-1.

Model changes

Taxonomy is updated for the following:

TAXONOMY: Added the dns_domain attribute to the NetworkDevice node. For more details, see (DRDC1-22830).