Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Nov-1

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

Important

New release timing: On-prem TKU releases move from the first Wednesday to the third Wednesday of each month.
New naming convention: Starting with September 2025, releases are named for the following month, so:
- The release on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, is called TKU 2025-Nov.
- This is so that production deployments are most likely to have the TKU named after the current month, once normal dev-test-production roll-out schedules are followed.

When it happened

First adjusted release: TKU 2025-Oct (third week of September 2025).
This release kicked off the new schedule pattern going forward.

Why it’s happening

This change aligns the on-premises TKU release schedule with our SaaS deployment readiness schedule.

Info

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

Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering:

Web API credentials and data sources

Added the outbound HTTP proxy capability for Web API credentials and data sources. For more details, see the official BMC Helix Discovery documentation and (DRUD1-50267).

Revised copyright statement

The copyright statement now reflects the new company name—BMC Helix, Inc. For more details, see (DRUD1-51904).

Cloud

AWS: Added a new region — New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27580).
OCI: Added policies for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to specify user permissions and conditions of accessing OCI cloud resources. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26924).
OCI: Added support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Domain Name System (DNS). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26922).
OCI: Added support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Network Firewall. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26916).

CMDB sync

Added a relationship between AdminCollection and BusinessApplicationInstance. For more details, see (DRDC1-27385).

OS classifier

Operation system types are now correctly detected for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS when syncing to BMC Helix CMDB. For more details, see (DRDC1-27497).

Network devices

Updates to Cisco Meraki:
- Added HTTP proxy configuration for Meraki Dashboard API Credentials; see (DRDC1-27250).
- Added support for external credential providers; see (DRDC1-27250).
Updates to Palo Alto Networks and F5 Network Devices: Improved linkage between the Network Device and the related Virtual Machine. For more details, see (DRDC1-27353).

Processors

Added support for the discovery of the Raspberry PI processor. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24337).

Storage

Added support for a new tape library — Fujitsu Eternus LT260. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27525).

Release compatibility

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

Download

Customers can access this TKU release from theBMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. If you are a customer or partner without a login, contact your BMC account manager.

Learn how to download from the BMC EPD site from this guideline.

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 ConditionsBMC 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-Nov-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-Nov-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

The following BMC Outpost update is introduced within the scope of this release.

Defect ref.	Description	Notes
DRUD1-53745	Resolved an issue with a missing CyberArk SDK file.	The error is displayed during BMC Discovery Outpost and CyberArk integration.

Products

We do not have new products to report at this time.

RFEs

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

RFE ref.	Enhancement	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-27271	Updated the pattern to correctly identify load balancer information.	Apache Load Balancer	N
DRDC1-25911	Updated the pattern to properly create a Tomcat SoftwareInstance needed for the discovery of BMC Remedy Smart Reporting.	Apache Tomcat	N
DRDC1-27446	Updated the pattern to discover EPS deployments on the UNIX system.	Bitdefender EPS	N
DRDC1-27533	Updated the regular expression for package detection in the StoreFront pattern.	Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp (FMA)	N
DRDC1-27289 DRDC1-27520 DRDC1-27042	Improved versioning.	CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor Microsoft SQL Server MongoDB	N
DRDC1-25235	Improved Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries that retrieve Microsoft Server ClusterResources.	Microsoft Cluster Server	N
DRDC1-26843	Updated how the pattern handles the adminuser option.	PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern	N
DRDC1-26349	Updated processing of PostgreSQL database names.	PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern	N
DRDC1-27009	Extended the pattern to read the standalone-full.xml file in addition to the host.xml and standalone.xml configuration files.	Red Hat JBoss Application Server	N
DRDC1-27523	Updated the pattern to set the SoftwareInstance's product attribute according to the actual name of the product.	Red Hat JBoss Application Server	N
DRDC1-27561	Added a publisher attribute for each model.SoftwareInstance() call in Containerization.SoftwareContainers.LinuxHost pattern.	Software Containers	N
DRDC1-27492	Improved Kubernetes Master versioning.	Kubernetes	N
DRDC1-27417	Updated the pattern to prevent an ECA error when detecting Linux hosts.	Software Containers	N
DRDC1-26912	Updated the pattern by adding the haclus -display command as an alternative method to detect the name of the cluster.	Veritas InfoScale	N

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref.	Details	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-27366	Problem: The pattern retrieves enormous log files. Solution: Code fix.	BMC Helix Client Gateway	N
DRDC1-27572	Problem: An incorrect version retrieved by using the package versioning method. Solution: Code fix.	Genetec Security Center	N
DRDC1-27486	Problem: Inefficient naming convention of the HashiCorp Consul cluster nodes. Solution: Code fix.	HashiCorp Consul	N
DRDC1-27487	Problem: Missing linkage between the HashiCorp Consul cluster and a host. Solution: Code fix.	HashiCorp Consul	N
DRDC1-27380	Problem: The Patroni cluster might erroneously create CandidateSoftwareInstance nodes. Workaround: Create a SoftwareInstance on the target host.	Patroni	N