Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Jul-1


BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2025-Jul-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2 versions of BMC Discovery.

Info

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

Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering: 

Cloud:

  • AWS: Added a new region — ​​​​​​Taipei, Taiwan (ap-east-2). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26694).
  • AZURE: Added Azure Firewall policies and Azure Redis Cache modelled as a new node kind, Configuration​​. For more details, see the documentation here and here; refer to (DRDC1-23045).
  • AZURE: Added Azure Stack OS to OS classifiers. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25970).
  • IBM: Added the following new regions (for more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26622):
    • Madrid, EU ES (eu-es)
    • Osaka, Japan (jp-osa)
    • Sao Paulo, Brazil (br-sao)
    • Toronto, Canada (ca-tor)

Patterns

  • MAINFRAME DISCOVERY: Added support for IMS Data Sharing Group. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25952).
  • KUBERNETES: Added support for CronJobs discovery. (DRDC1-26267)

Taxonomy

  • Added Admin relationships for RuntimeEnvironment and StorageVolume node kinds (DRDC1-26737).
  • Added a new node kind, Configuration, and relationships to enable the detection of policies. For more details, see (DRDC1-24491).

Release compatibility

TKU 2025-Jul-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2.

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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.
    • System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions BMC Discovery 23.1,BMC 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-Jul-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-Jul-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

The following BMC Outpost updates are introduced within the scope of this release.

Defect ref.DescriptionNotes
DRUD1-52475Resolved an issue with high CPU consumption in BMC Helix Outpost.Happens during the GCP scan.
DRUD1-51506Resolved an issue with the incorrect logging of the worker's identity.NA

Products

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

Vendor 

Product 

Category 

Platform 

Instances 

Versioning 

Product page 

RFE ref. 

AxwaySentinelIntegration and Process Automation MiddlewareUNIXYYAxway SentinelDRDC1-26710
BitdefenderEPSSecure Content and Threat ManagementWindowsYYBitdefender EPSDRDC1-26568
BlackBerryUEMSecure Content and Threat ManagementWindowsYYBlackBerry UEMDRDC1-25746
NATSNATSEvent-Driven MiddlewareUNIX, WindowsYYNATSDRDC1-25679

RFEs

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

RFE ref. 

Enhancement 

Product page 

SI key change 

DRDC1-26489

DRDC1-26518

DRDC1-26413

DRDC1-26606

Updated versioning for the following patterns.

N
DRDC1-25622Updated the pattern to detect a version of AR System Server properly.BMC Digital Workplace CatalogN
DRDC1-26384

Updated the pattern to prevent erroneous creation of CandidateSoftwareInstance nodes.

BMC Patrol AgentN
DRDC1-26679Updated the pattern to discover the host name properly by using API credentials.HPE OneViewN
DRDC1-26267Added support for CronJobs.KubernetesN
DRDC1-25952Updated the Maiframe IMS Data Sharing Group to model IMSDBD databases properly.Mainframe pattern: IBM.IMS_ExtendedN

DRDC1-25496

DRDC1-26625

NVD information is now reported for the following products:

  • Citrix Virtual Apps
  • Nginx
National Vulnerability DatabaseN
DRDC1-26639Updated the listener.ora file processing to search for the listener name and port.Oracle RDBMSN
DRDC1-25325Added a relationship between JBoss Software Instance and Oracle Database.Red Hat JBoss Extended J2EE Discovery N
DRDC1-26608Updated the Veritas Cluster Server pattern to model HA and DR clusters properly.Veritas InfoScaleN

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref. 

Details 

Product page 

SI key change 

DRDC1-26306

Problem: The patterns get triggered by an idle DiscoveredService.

Solution: Code fix.

N
DRDC1-26473

Problem: A publisher is not present in the SI type.

Solution: Added the publisher to the SoftwareInstance type.

N
DRDC1-26330

Problem: Discovery throws the command not found error when trying to run the alias in the pattern.

Solution: Code fix.

Oracle Engineered SystemsN
DRDC1-26558

Problem: Incorrect parsing of the landscapeDescription.xml file.

Solution: Code fix.

SAP HANAN
DRDC1-26626

Problem: An ECA error due to the missing parent of the trigger process.

Solution: Code fix.

Schneider Electric OASyS Dynamic Network of ApplicationsN
DRDC1-26482

Problem: Only model Sybase IQ databases where files have the .db extension.

Solution: Improved the code that finds Database nodes.

Sybase Adaptive Server IQN

 

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