Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2024-Jan-1

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

Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering:

CMDB sync

  • AWS: The ManufacturerName attribute for cloud resources is now synced to the BMC CMDB. For more information, see (DRDC1-22140) and the documentation here.

  • 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.

Network devices

  • Added an ability to discover Polycom SoundStation devices through REST API. For more details, see (DRDC1-21789) and the documentation here.

Patterns

  • Fixed an issue with duplicated migrating Nutanix AHV virtual machines. For more details, see (DRDC1-22367) and the documentation here.
  • HEADS-UP: HCI/Oracle Exadata: We have changed the key of the HardwareContainer node to handle the case where multiple half racks have the same serial number. Other configurations and nodes are not impacted. For more details, see (DDRC1-22176) and the documentation here.
  • 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.

Storage

  • Added a new storage system — IBM Spectrum Scale (REST). For more details, see (DRDC1-21783) and the documentation here.
  • Added support for EMC Data Domain Storage Systems through the embedded REST API. For more details, see (DRDC1-19729) and the documentation here.
  • Added support for Oracle ZFS Storage Systems through the embedded Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance REST API. For more details, see (DRDC1-7864) 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-Jan-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 21.05, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, and 23.3.

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 and patterns used by the BMC CMDB sync system.

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

Outpost updates

Defect ref.

Description

Notes

DRUD1-39276

Fixed an issue with an incorrect error about BMC Outpost's unavailability.

N/A

DRUD1-42843

Fixed an issue with HarshiCorp connection.

N/A

DRUD1-43256

Fixed an upgrade issue with the FIPS enabled BMC Outpost.

The issue occurs when the BMC Outpost is not installed on the C drive.

DRUD1-43456

Fixed an issue with the BMC Outpost connection through a proxy server.

N/A

DRUD1-43497

Fixed an issue with warning messages about user permission.

N/A

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.

 

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