Product content TKU 2025-Jul-1


Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Jul-1 contains additional product content for the 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2 versions of BMC Discovery.

Product content updates require appliance restart

This TKU release contains product content additions. The appliance is restarted when product content is added to the update. You can prevent the restart, but none of the knowledge content will be installed if you do so.

For more information about Cloud Discovery, see Supported Cloud Providers

Feature updates

Info

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

The following features and enhancements are introduced within the scope of this release:

  • CLOUD/AWS: Added a new region — ​​​​​​Taipei, Taiwan (ap-east-2). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26694).
  • CLOUD/AWS: Updated storage volumes creation in the Amazon Elastic Block Storage pattern. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26687).
  • CLOUD/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).
  • CLOUD/AZURE: Added Azure Stack OS to OS classifiers. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25970).
  • CLOUD/AZURE: Updated the Microsoft Azure Redis Cache pattern to use the Configuration node. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26450).
  • CLOUD/GCP: Added the ability to automatically scan private Kubernetes clusters. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24518).
  • CLOUD/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)
  • KUBERNETES: Updated __resource_unit attributes of Kubernetes Cluster nodes. For more details, see (DRDC1-26727).
  • LOAD BALANCERS/Avi Networks: Updated the pattern to properly detect LBService nodes. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26652).
  • PLATFORM SCRIPTS: Improved handling of the format retrieved by lslpp -L (for AIX) command in the getpackagelist method. For more details, see (DRDC1-26681).
  • STORAGE/Dell EMC PowerMax Symmetrix: Added support for the discovery of the network interfaces and IP addresses. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26416).
  • STORAGE/Hitachi (REST): Updated the Storage System software version and the Storage Device firmware version to extend discovered information. For more details, see (DRDC1-26659).
  • STORAGE/Host Side Linking: Updated the Host Side Linking Pattern for AIX to properly show Volume groups and Physical volumes. For more details, see (DRDC1-26628).

Defects

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

  • CLOUD/AZURE: Resolved an issue with the os attribute detection. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26244).
  • KUBERNETES: Updated the Kubernetes client module to version 1.30. For more details, see (DRDC1-26654).
  • NETWORK/Citrix Netscaler API: Fixed an issue with failing discovery due to the   unsafe legacy renegotiation disabled error. For more details, see (DRDC1-26551).
  • PLATFORM SCRIPTS: Fixed an issue with the ip address and ip link commands output failing to parse due to incorrect formatting. For more details, see (DRDC1-26666).
  • STORAGE/Netapp ESeries SANtricity Web Services Proxy: Resolved an issue with an incorrect OS version of the storage device. For more details, see (DRDC1-26543).
  • STORAGE/Nimble: Resolved an issue with an incorrectly set storage system type. Added physical so that the VirtualDeviceLinking.tplpre pattern does not set the virtual attribute to True. For more details, see (DRDC1-26678).

Changes to discovery commands

Discovery commands are unchanged in Product Content 2025-Jul-1.

Model changes

Taxonomy is updated for the following: 

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

 

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