BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2024-Aug-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, and 24.2 versions of BMC Discovery.
Release highlights
In this release, we are delivering:
Cloud
- ALIBABA: Added a new cloud region — me-central-1 Riyadh. For more details, see (DRDC1-24046) and the documentation here.
- GCP: Improved GCP Load Balancer Patterns and GCP Common Functions. For more details, see (DRDC1-23203).
- GCP: Optimized GCP cloud discovery through BMC Outpost. For more information, see (DRDC1-23532).
- KUBERNETES: NOTE: The following features will be available only for BMC Discovery version 24.3 and later. Added support for the Kubernetes automatic scan through the following scans (for more details, see the documentation here):
- AWS cloud scan (DRUD1-43562).
- Azure cloud scan (DRDC1-23828).
- GCP cloud scan (DRDC1-23833).
- IBM Cloud APIs (DRDC1-22366).
- OCI cloud scan (DRUD1-43562).
- OCI: Added a new cloud region — ap-singapore-2 Singapore West. For more details, see (DRDC1-24126) and the documentation here.
- OCI: Added support for the Redis deep discovery. For more details, see (DRDC1-22096) and the documentation here.
CMDB sync
Added an ability to optionally modify the CTI (category, type, item) values. By default, the CTI values remain "Unknown". HEADS-UP: In 6 or 12 months, we will change the default CTI values. For more details, see (DRDC1-23486) and the documentation here
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Added OOTB templates of sync mapping extensions for Azure Key Vault, Azure Managed Disks, Azure Storage File Shares, and container images. For more details, see (DRDC1-23485) and the documentation here.
Improved the CMDB TLS Detail Document to sync IPsec Certificates. For more details, see (DRDC1-24040) and the documentation here.
- Introduced multiple improvements to Kubernetes (for more details, see (DRDC1-23311):
- HEADS-UP: CMDB.Namespace_Deployment_ConcreteCollection.Namespace_Deployment_ConcreteCollection is replaced with the CMDB.Pod_Deployment_ConcreteCollection.Pod_Deployment_ConcreteCollection pattern.
- HEADS-UP: The major version of the CMDB.Namespace_AdminDomain.Namespace_AdminDomain pattern is changed.
Network devices
- Added support for Redfish API scan for Huawei HMM series management controllers. For more details, see (DRDC1-22241) and the documentation here.
Patterns
- APACHE TOMCAT: Updated the Apache Tomcat Extended Discovery to create a SoftwareComponent if web.xml or context.xml files exist. For more details, see (DRDC1-23882) and the documentation here.
- NUTANIX: Added support for Nutanix REST API V3 and Prism Central REST discovery. For more details, see (DRDC1-20646, DRDC1-21186) and the documentation here.
- VERITAS: Added a new "High Availability" relationship to represent individual physical Veritas DR cluster nodes existing in "High-Availability Pair" (HA Pair). For more details, see (DRDC1-23554) and the documentation here.
- We have corrected the TPL version of multiple patterns. Note that the "Deactivating old... to use newly activated module" warning is expected.
- We now report Windows Internal Database as a separate SoftwareInstance type to Microsoft SQL Server. For more details, see (DRDC1-23231) and the documentation here.
Storage
- Added support for discovering IBM FlashSystem 9x00/7x00/5x00 (REST). For more details, see (DRDC1-23491) and the documentation here.
- DELL EMC RECOVERPOINT: Added support for API version 5+ for Recover Point. For more details, see (DRDC1-23282) and the documentation here.
- HEADS-UP: 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).
Release compatibility
TKU 2024-Aug 1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, and 24.2.
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Release contents
The release comprises components packaged as the following entities:
- BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update
- Core - Patterns that model various software products.
- Extended Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases.
- Middleware discovery - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain J2EE Application Servers and Web servers.
- Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files, Printer definition files, and SNMP managed devices definition files.
- BMC-Discovery-Extended-Data-Pack-2024-Aug-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.
- BMC Discovery for ServiceNow is a separately licensable product.
ServiceNow CMDB sync mapping patterns. The documentation is here.
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering all commands executed and files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU 2024-Aug-1 is available here.
Outpost updates
The following BMC Outpost updates are introduced within the scope of this release.
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Products
We have no new products to report at this time.
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.