Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2024-Feb-1

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2024-Feb-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, and 24.1 versions of BMC Discovery.

Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering:

Cloud

AWS: Introduced the following updates for the AWS Cloud Regions map (for more details, see (DRDC1-22594) and the documentation here):
- New cloud regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), Canada West (Calgary) (ca-west-1), Melbourne (ap-southeast-4), Tel Aviv (il-central-1), and Zurich (eu-central-2).
- Country labels in the Region location field.
- New endpoints.

CMDB sync

EOL: Added a pattern for the synchronization of EOL dates to the BMC CMDB. Note that this requires the BMC CMDB to be extended to support the following new attributes: EndOfExtendedSupport, EndOfLife, EndOfSecuritySupport, and EndOfSupport. For more details, see (DRDC1-21798) and the documentationhere andhere.
We now set the value for the ManufacturerName attribute to the BMC_LogicalSystemComponent from the publisher value of the NetworkService nodes created in Cloud discovery. For more details, see (DRDC1-22646) and (DRDC1-22484).

Network devices

Added the last_status_change attribute to Network Interface. For more details, see (DRDC1-21669).
We now discover hardware components for Palo Alto Firewalls. For more details, see (DRDC1-22648) and the documentation here.

Patterns

HEADS-UP: PostgreSQL RDBMS: Starting from December TKU 2023, the PostgreSQL pattern no longer creates SoftwareCluster nodes. What PostgreSQL considers to be a cluster is different to what BMC Discovery considers to be a cluster. You can still find instance information on the SoftwareInstance. For more details, see (DRDC1-21303) and the documentation here.
IBM DB2 RDBMS: Updated the pattern to discover "Max amount of memory" and "Max number of cores". For more details, see (DRDC1-22265) and the documentation here.
Key change: HP Vertica: Updated the pattern to use the SoftwareCluster key for Database nodes instead of the SI key. For more details, see (DRDC1-22625) and the documentation here.
Nutanix: Unified the Nutanix discovery model so that when scanning with REST and SSH methods, all types of Nutanix Acropolis (KVM) nodes are created with the same key. This update prevents duplicates creation. For more details, see (DRDC1-19313) and the documentation here.
Nutanix: Updated the pattern to prevent ECA errors after upgrading to TKU January 2024. For more details, see (DRDC1-22674) and the documentation here.

Latest releases updates

You can find information about the latest TKU updates and essential notes in the Schedule-and-Roadmap.

TLS Certificate checking: BMC Discovery and BMC Discovery Outpost check the TLS certificate against GCP. You can clear the check box to disable the TLS certificate and check if the certificate is invalid. In such a case, be aware that a hacker attack could intercept your credentials.

Release compatibility

TKU 2024-Feb-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, and 24.1.

Download

Customers can access this TKU release from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. If you are a customer or partner without a login, contact your BMC account manager.

Learn how to download from the BMC EPD site from this guideline.

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.
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions BMC Discovery 21.05, BMC Discovery 21.3, BMC Discovery 22.1, BMC Discovery 22.2, BMC Discovery 23.1, BMC Discovery 23.3, BMC Discovery 24.1 and patterns used by the BMC CMDB sync system.

BMC-Discovery-Extended-Data-Pack-2024-Feb-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-Feb-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

Defect ref.	Description	Notes
DRUD1-43717	Added support for legacy crypto functions that are no longer exposed by the Python cryptography module.	N/A
DRUD1-43710	Added support for using Web Sockets to connect to BMC Outpost.	After the configuration change, a service restart is mandatory.
DRUD1-46532	Fixed an issue with failed storage access.	N/A
DRUD1-46636	Fixed an issue with unresponsive BMC Outpost when FIPS is enabled.	The issue occurs on the Windows platform.
DRUD1-43262	Fixed an issue with the NULL character in the output of the kstat command.	N/A

Products

The following new products are introduced within the scope of this release.

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.