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.
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. | Description | Notes |
| DRUD1-52475 | Resolved an issue with high CPU consumption in BMC Helix Outpost. | Happens during the GCP scan. |
| DRUD1-51506 | Resolved 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. |
| Axway | Sentinel | Integration and Process Automation Middleware | UNIX | Y | Y | Axway Sentinel | DRDC1-26710 |
| Bitdefender | EPS | Secure Content and Threat Management | Windows | Y | Y | Bitdefender EPS | DRDC1-26568 |
| BlackBerry | UEM | Secure Content and Threat Management | Windows | Y | Y | BlackBerry UEM | DRDC1-25746 |
| NATS | NATS | Event-Driven Middleware | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | NATS | DRDC1-25679 |
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 | |
| DRDC1-25622 | Updated the pattern to detect a version of AR System Server properly. | BMC Digital Workplace Catalog | N |
| DRDC1-26384 | Updated the pattern to prevent erroneous creation of CandidateSoftwareInstance nodes. | BMC Patrol Agent | N |
| DRDC1-26679 | Updated the pattern to discover the host name properly by using API credentials. | HPE OneView | N |
| DRDC1-26267 | Added support for CronJobs. | Kubernetes | N |
| DRDC1-25952 | Updated the Maiframe IMS Data Sharing Group to model IMSDBD databases properly. | Mainframe pattern: IBM.IMS_Extended | N |
DRDC1-25496 DRDC1-26625 | NVD information is now reported for the following products:
| National Vulnerability Database | N |
| DRDC1-26639 | Updated the listener.ora file processing to search for the listener name and port. | Oracle RDBMS | N |
| DRDC1-25325 | Added a relationship between JBoss Software Instance and Oracle Database. | Red Hat JBoss Extended J2EE Discovery | N |
| DRDC1-26608 | Updated the Veritas Cluster Server pattern to model HA and DR clusters properly. | Veritas InfoScale | N |
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 Systems | N |
| DRDC1-26558 | Problem: Incorrect parsing of the landscapeDescription.xml file. Solution: Code fix. | SAP HANA | N |
| DRDC1-26626 | Problem: An ECA error due to the missing parent of the trigger process. Solution: Code fix. | Schneider Electric OASyS Dynamic Network of Applications | N |
| 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 IQ | N |