Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-May-1

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2025-May-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, and 24.3 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: 

CMDB sync 

  • HEADS-UP: Each Namespace is now synced independently to optimize CMDB sync. Earlier, the system memory and performance were loaded due to the bulk mapping of the whole Kubernetes cluster. For more details, see (DRDC1-25098).

Certificates

  • Added a new node kind, Certificate, that includes a type field. BMC Discovery models a Certificate node by using the following patterns (for more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25382, DRDC1-25383):
    • Amazon Certificate Manager
    • F5BigIp LoadBalancer
    • Linux Certificates
    • SSLDetails
    • SSLExtended
    • Windows Certificates

Cloud

  • AZURE: We have added support for RAM information on Azure VMs. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-22834).
  • OCI: Added support for the discovery of OCI hosts by using OCI Bastion service. To do so, enable the OCI Bastion Sessions feature when you configure a cloud discovery run. For more information, see (DRDC1-22450).​​​​

Network devices

  • Added support for Citrix NetScaler Console (formerly ADM). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26123).
  • Added support for the discovery of Brocade SAN Switches by using the Brocade FOS REST API. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-21137).

Platform scripts

  • Added a new platform script to support HPE NonStop infrastructure. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-5305).

Storage

  • Added support for Huawei OceanStor 9000 REST. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25776).

Release compatibility

TKU 2025-May-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 22.2, 23.1, 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, and 24.3.

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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 22.2,BMC Discovery 23.1,BMC Discovery 23.3,BMC Discovery 24.1,BMC Discovery 24.2,BMC Discovery 24.3 and patterns used by the BMC CMDB sync system.

  • BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack 2025-May-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-May-1 is available here.

ServiceNow sync mapping pattern updates

The following improvements to ServiceNow sync are introduced within the scope of this release.

Defect ref.

Description

Notes

DRUD1-42396

Resolved an issue with the missing synchronization of Cloud Database nodes to ServiceNow CMDB.

HEADS-UP: Starting from TKU May 2025, to ensure seamless synchronization, it is mandatory to make sure the following classes exist and are configured on your ServiceNow instance:

  • For the cmdb_ci class, the Identification rule is set to “Independent” and the Identifier Entry is set to “Name”.

  • Define the Allocated_from__Allocated_to class and add the Allocated from::Allocated to relationship.
For more details, see the documentationhere.

DRUD1-41064

Added the category attribute (AdminCollection or CloudResource type) to the cmdb_ci_resource_group class.

New feature.

DRUD1-48298Added support for the Deployment node sync to ServiceNow CMDB.NA
DRUD1-49612Updated ServiceNow.CloudRegion_cmdb_ci_logical_datacenter to synchronize GCP Regions to cmdb_ci_google_datacenter, and OCI Regions to cmdb_ci_oci_datacenter.NA

DRDC1-24235

Updated ServiceNow.Host_Processor.Host_Processor to properly sync CPU data from BMC Discovery to ServiceNow CMDB.

NA

DRUD1-48101

Updated the pattern to properly synchronize Storage Pools and Storage Volumes to ServiceNow CMDB when they are related to StorageSystemGroup.

NA

DRDC1-22537Fixed an issue with ServiceNow_StoragePool_cmdb_ci_storage_pool.NA

Outpost updates

We have no updates to report at this time.

Products

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

Vendor 

Product 

Category 

Platform 

Instances 

Versioning 

Product page 

RFE ref. 

InformaticaUltra MessagingEvent-Driven MiddlewareUNIX, WindowsYNInformatica Ultra MessagingDRDC1-24800

Swift

Alliance

Event-Driven Middleware

UNIX, Windows

Y 

Y 

Swift Alliance

DRDC1-25789

RFEs

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

RFE ref. 

Enhancement 

Product page 

SI key change 

DRDC1-26031

DRDC1-25940

DRDC1-26112

DRDC1-25868

DRDC1-26245

DRDC1-25430

DRDC1-25920

DRDC1-26065

DRDC1-26026

DRDC1-26131

DRDC1-25876

DRDC1-26192

DRDC1-25195

Updated versioning.

N
DRDC1-25497Update the pattern to use the Cloudera Cloud Data Platform name when modeling SIs.Cloudera CDHN
DRDC1-26166Improved OpenShift CPU value conversion.Kubernetes functionsN
DRDC1-26184Updated the pattern to consistently model serial numbers for Exadata container nodes.Oracle Engineered SystemsN
DRDC1-25867Updated the pattern to attempt a full path in commands.Pivotal RabbitMQN
DRDC1-25164Updated the type for the pattern.Red Hat JBoss Application ServerN
DRDC1-25870Added a false-positive condition to prevent the pattern from being erroneously triggered by the SAP Digital Discovery Assessment process.SAP HANAN

DRDC1-26182 

Added support for custom attributes for vCenter Cluster.VMware vCenter ServerN
DRDC1-25755Added the connection_state attribute for ESXi hosts scanned through vCenter.VMware vCenter ServerN

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref. 

Details 

Product page 

SI key change 

DRDC1-25784

Problem: Some patterns do not use whichPackage as a common function to obtain the package for a given executable path.

Solution: Updated the patterns to use whichPackage.

N
DRDC1-25805

Problem: The patterns use inconsistent attribute names for SoftwareContainer nodes.

Solution: Updated the container patterns to set container_id, image, and image_id SoftwareContainer attributes.

Applicable to all the container patterns.N
DRDC1-25849

Problem: Incorrect ageing.

Solution: Code fix.

BMC TrueSight Automation ConsoleN
DRDC1-25802

Problem: The pattern is no longer triggered by Detail nodes due to their change to ContainerImage nodes.

Solution: Updated the pattern to get triggered by ContainerImage nodes.

Duo SecurityN
DRDC1-26258

Problem: BMC Discovery creates MongoDB databases with incorrect names.

Solution: Code fix.

MongoDBN
DRDC1-26246

Problem: An ECA error.

Solution: Code fix.

Oracle RDBMSN
DRDC1-26222

Problem: Incorrect versioning for the Windows server.

Solution: Code fix.

Orient Technologies Ltd OrientDBN
DRDC1-25778

Problem: The podman ps command returns an empty list irrespective of running Podman containers.

Solution: Code fix.

PodmanN
DRDC1-25756

Problem: The pattern does not work in a container unless the binary has a full path.

Solution: Code fix.

PostgreSQL RDBMSN
DRDC1-25816

Problem: The pattern sometimes does not get bind_address or port.

Solution: Code fix.

Sybase Adaptive Server EnterpriseN

 

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