Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Dec-1

Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Dec-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2 versions of BMC Discovery.

Important

New release timing: On-prem TKU releases move from the first Wednesday to the third Wednesday of each month.
New naming convention: Starting with September 2025, releases are named for the following month, so:
- The release on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, is called TKU 2025-Dec.
- This is so that production deployments are most likely to have the TKU named after the current month, once normal dev-test-production roll-out schedules are followed.

When it happened

First adjusted release: TKU 2025-Oct (third week of September 2025).
This release kicked off the new schedule pattern going forward.

Why it’s happening

This change aligns the on-premises TKU release schedule with our SaaS deployment readiness schedule.

Info

Internal tracking numbers provided for convenience when you are in discussion with BMC Support.

Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering:

CLOUD:

Added a new Microsoft Azure region — Brussels, Belgium (belgiumcentral). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27937).
Added a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region — Madrid, Spain (eu-madrid-3). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27937).
Added support for the discovery of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26929).
Added the ability to automatically scan private Kubernetes clusters within Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances. For more details, see the documentation here and here (DRDC1-26858; DRDC1-27363).
Enhanced tag discovery in the following Amazon Web Services (for more details, see (DRDC1-27771; DRDC1-27178):
- Amazon DocumentDB (cluster)
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (cluster, service)
- Amazon ElasticSearch (cluster)
- Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics (application)
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (topic)
Improved Kubernetes Cluster name assignment to make it consistent for all discovery methods; for more details, see (DRDC1-26993):

CMDB SYNC:

Updated the CMDB.StorageSystem_Company_Management pattern to correctly sync storage companies' names. For more details, see (DRDC1-27839).

DEEP CONTAINER DISCOVERY:

Added host check for the patterns that are triggered by the Software Instance or Software Component, before running a discovery scan; for more details, see (DRDC1-27621):
Improved versioning methods for Kubernetes/OpenShift Master and Worker SIs. For more details, see (DRDC1-27650).
Updated the KubernetesFunctions.managedByAPI() function logic to configure the scan recency by adding the ScanDelay configuration option. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27741).

NETWORK:

Improved relationships between Citrix Console (ADM) and managed NetScaler VPX hosted on Citrix SDX devices. For more details, see (DRDC1-27251).

STORAGE:

Added support for HPE Alletra MP B10000. For the documentation about how BMC Helix Discovery connects with this storage system, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27435).

Release compatibility

TKU 2025-Dec-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2.

Download

Customers can access this TKU release from theBMC 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 ConditionsBMC Discovery 23.3,BMC Discovery 24.1,BMC Discovery 24.2,BMC Discovery 24.3,BMC Discovery 25.2 and patterns used by the BMC CMDB sync system.

BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack 2025-Dec-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 ishere.

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering all commands executed and files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU 2025-Dec-1 is available here.

ServiceNow sync mapping patterns updates

Defect ref.	Description	Notes
DRDC1-27286	Added sync of storage system IP addresses to ServiceNow CMDB.	NA
DRUD1-38117	Added sync of TLS certificates to ServiceNow CMDB.	NA
DRDC1-27226	Fixed an incorrect calculation of the file system size in the ServiceNow.FileSystem_Host_Linkage pattern.	NA

Outpost updates

The following BMC Outpost update is introduced within the scope of this release.

Defect ref.	Description	Notes
DRUD1-51243	Resolved an issue with an incorrect Local discovery source display when Outpost information is missing in DeviceInfo nodes.	NA
DRUD1-51405	Resolved an issue with frequent SSH/Kerberos failures and NoAccess errors during large scans on the 2025-01 Outpost.	NA

Products

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

Vendor	Product	Category	Platform	Instances	Versioning	Product page	RFE ref.
Alation, Inc.	Alation	End-User Query, Reporting, and Analysis	UNIX	Y	Y	Alation	DRDC1-26508
Apache	Strongmail	Email Applications	UNIX	Y	Y	Apache Strongmail	DRDC1-27292
Oracle	Rdb	Relational Database Management Systems	OpenVMS	Y	Y	Oracle Rdb	DRDC1-27164

RFEs

The following RFEs are introduced within the scope of this release.

RFE ref.	Enhancement	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-27637 DRDC1-27291 DRDC1-27290 DRDC1-27857 DRDC1-27761 DRDC1-26999 DRDC1-27744 DRDC1-27422 DRDC1-27717 DRDC1-27140 DRDC1-27539 DRDC1-27764 DRDC1-27675	Improved versioning.	Apache Airflow Apache HTTPD-based Webserver CA APM Introscope CA SiteMinder Checkmk Elasticsearch HSQL Development Group HyperSQL IBM HTTP Server IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Database Oracle Real Application Clusters Sterling Commerce Connect Direct Zabbix	N
DRDC1-27500	Updated the pattern to handle the case where Drupal is erroneously linked to an Apache Website SoftwareComponent, not an Apache Webserver SoftwareInstance.	Drupal	N
DRDC1-27833	Improved the trigger logic of the EMC.Unisphere.SMAS pattern to prevent false positives.	EMC Unisphere	N
DRDC1-24656	Updated the false-positive check for the pattern.	HSQL Development Group HyperSQL	N
DRDC1-25904	Updated the pattern to correctly classify IBM Java software instances.	Java Virtual Machine	N
DRDC1-27875	Improved how the pattern runs SQL queries by using SSH.	IBM Informix Dynamic Server - Database Detail Pattern	N
DRDC1-27938	Improved Kubernetes/OpenShift Master SI host identification.	Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift	N
DRDC1-27138	Updated modeling for the kdb+ database.	KX kdb+	Y
DRDC1-26864 DRDC1-27299	Updated the pattern logic so that it: Discovers the patch ID for the software instance. Properly detects all available domains.	Oracle WebLogic Server	N
DRDC1-27718	Added an ability to retrieve a cluster name (instance name) from the postgresql.conf file.	PostgreSQL RDBMS	N
DRDC1-27978	Added product and publisher attributes.	Prometheus	N
DRDC1-27865	Updated the pattern logic to assess only processes found in the current discovery access.	Python Virtual Machine	N
DRDC1-27969	Updated the registry path for BusinessObjects.BusinessObjectsEnterprise.Designer.	SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise	N
DRDC1-27774	Improved command output validation for the getent hosts command.	SearchFunctions	N
DRDC1-27945	Updated the pattern to set the correct type for Open VMware Tools.	VMware Tools	N
DRDC1-27740	Updated the format in which the Citrix Xen server reports the VirtualMachine UUID.	Xen Domain Consolidation	N

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref.	Details	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-27819	Problem: An Apache Webserver Website instance name incorrectly includes the port. Solution: Code fix. A port is reported in the listening_ports attribute.	Apache HTTPD-based Webservers	N
DRDC1-27808	Problem: The pattern fails to retrieve the version. Solution: Code fix.	Axway Sentinel	N
DRDC1-27869	Problem: The pattern is triggered by BMC Patrol Agent. Solution: Code fix. The pattern is triggered by BMC PATROL Agent.	BMC Performance Manager	N
DRDC1-27988	Problem: The Kubernetes SSH pattern generates ECA errors when it gets ReplicationController data Solution: Code fix.	Kubernetes	N
DRDC1-27759	Problem: A missing port for the Oracle listener. Solution: Code fix.	Oracle Database	N
DRDC1-27845	Problem: An ECA error in the Containerization.SoftwareContainers.LinuxHost pattern caused by how the pattern interprets the output of the command to find container details. Solution: Code fix. Improved command output parsing.	Software Containers	N
DRDC1-27925	Problem: The RabbitMQ Server SI shows a command error for the version. Solution: Code fix.	VMware RabbitMQ	N