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.

• • Feature updates
  • Defects
  • Changes to discovery commands
  • Model changes

For more information about Cloud Discovery, see Supported Cloud Providers. 

Feature updates

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).