Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Oct-1

Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Oct-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 will be named for the following month, so:
- The release on Wednesday September 17, 2025 will be called TKU 2025-Oct.
- No release will be named TKU 2025-Sep.
- 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's happening

First adjusted release: TKU 2025-Oct (third week of September 2025).
This release kicks 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:

API Discovery

Added support for Cloud Foundry API Discovery. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-23976).
Added support for Rubrik Security Cloud API Discovery. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-16292).

Certificates

We now discover a TLS certificate for Citrix NetScaler VPX. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24089).

Cloud

AWS: Tags retrieved from AWS.APIGateway.GetRESTAPIs are now added to the associated AWS API Gateway REST API SoftwareInstance nodes. Similarly, tags from AWS.APIGateway.GetStages are now applied to the corresponding API Stage SoftwareComponent nodes. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27188).
AZURE: Added a new region — Vienna, Austria (austriaeast). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27300).
AZURE: Added relationships between Microsoft Azure Web Apps and the following database engines (for more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24868):
- Cosmos DB API for MongoDB
- MySQL - Flexible Server
- PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- SQLAzure
AZURE: Added support for the Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27170).
GCP: Added firewall policies for Google Virtual Private Cloud. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24557).
OCI: Enhanced OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) support by adding discovery and modeling of related NetworkServices, including Subnets, Routers, and Gateways. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26917).

EOL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The SupportDetail pattern for Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been rewritten to improve accuracy and flexibility in handling End of Life (EOL) data. Key updates include:
- Support for all the extended support schemes (EUS, E4S, ELS, and EEUS) by tailoring End of Extended Support and End of Security Support dates based on host subscriptions.
- Enhanced handling of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS by identifying CoreOS in the os_name or os_release attributes to assign correct EOL data.
- Introduction of the os_extended_update attribute to the SupportDetail node for improved tracking of extended subscriptions.

For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24798).

Network devices

Improved linkage between the F5 Networks device and the related virtual machine (DRDC1-27130).
Updated Brocade SNMP to retrieve Dell Service Tags as serial numbers for Dell-owned devices. For more details, see (DRDC1-26808).

Patterns

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM): Added support for the discovery of Oracle Linux Virtual Machines. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-23722).
Red Hat JBoss Application Server: In TKU releases earlier than October 2025, Red Hat JBoss Application Server and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) used different versioning numbers. This often led to the EAP version being assigned to a Red Hat JBoss Application Server SoftwareInstance (SI), resulting in inaccurate or non-existent End of Life dates. To address this inconsistency, we updated the pattern to distinguish between Red Hat JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) installations. Two new attributes, eap_version and wildfly_version, have been introduced to store an alternative version for the SoftwareInstance. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26188).

Storage

Added Identification Timeout Options to the Web API credential page of the following storage patterns (for more details, see (DRDC1-27098):
- BeyondTrust
- Ceph
- Cisco Catalyst Center
- Cohesity
- Dell EMC Compellent
- Dell EMC Data Domain
- Dell EMC ECS
- Dell EMC PowerVault
- EMC Isilon
- EMC PowerFlex
- HDI
- Hitachi Ops Center Administrator
- Hitachi Storage
- HP Moonshot
- HPE Greenlake
- HPE OneView
- Huawei Oceanstor
- IBM DS8000
- IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- IBM TS4300 Tape Library
- NetApp StorageGRID
- NetScaler ADC
- Tintri VMstore
- VMware Skyline

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 the BMC 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-Oct-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-Oct-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

The following BMC Outpost updates are introduced within the scope of this release.

Defect ref.	Description	Notes
DRUD1-37693	Improved how a list of Outposts is displayed in the UI.	NA
DRUD1-27379	Updated the Credentials page UI to inform users about disabled Outposts.	NA

Products

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

Vendor	Product	Category	Platform	Instances	Versioning	Product page	RFE ref.
Cloud Foundry Foundation	Cloud Foundry	Clustering and Availability Software	Cloud and on-premises deployments	Y	Y	Cloud Foundry	DRDC1-23976
Drupal	Drupal	Content Management	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Drupal	DRDC1-25718
Elastic	Agent	Advanced Analytics Software	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Elastic Agent	DRDC1-25623
Elastic	Heartbeat	Application Performance Management	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Elastic Beats	DRDC1-26394
Prometheus	Prometheus	Performance Management Software	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Prometheus	DRDC1-25445
Rubrik	Rubrik	Clustering and Availability Software	Cloud deployments	Y	Y	Rubrik	DRDC1-16292

RFEs

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

RFE ref.	Enhancement	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-27018 DRDC1-27084 DRDC1-27174 DRDC1-25732	Updated versioning.	Apache CXF Apache HTTPD-based Webservers CA SiteMinder Genesys	N
DRDC1-27139	Updated the pattern to model the Kafka cluster ID.	Apache Kafka	N
DRDC1-26956	Updated the pattern to display TLS certificate details for RHEL Apache Web Server software instances.	Apache HTTPD-based Webservers - Extended Discovery Pattern	N
DRDC1-27048	Updated the pattern's trigger.	BMC TrueSight Smart Reporting	N
DRDC1-27064	Improved National Vulnerability Database (NVD) mapping for Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent.	Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp (FMA)	N
DRDC1-27059	Updated the pattern to correctly classify Azul Zulu.	Java Virtual Machine	N
DRDC1-27034	Improved service pack extraction.	Microsoft SQL Server	N
DRDC1-27065	Improved NVD reporting.	National Vulnerability Database	N
DRDC1-27021	NVD data is now reported for mainframes.	National Vulnerability Database	N
DRDC1-27072	Improved the pattern to prevent a malformed Kubernetes discovery command.	Kubernetes	N
DRDC1-26486	Updated active commands for obtaining disk groups info.	Oracle Automatic Storage Management	N
DRDC1-26862	Improved Oracle pluggable database discovery.	Oracle RDBMS	N
DRDC1-26566	Added support for modeling JMS connection factories as JMSResource instances on the Oracle WebLogic Server SoftwareInstance.	Oracle WebLogic Server	N
DRDC1-27247	Updated the OS version for CoreOS.	OS classifier	N
DRDC1-26895	The SoftwareCluster node created by the Patroni pattern now has an instance attribute.	Patroni	N
DRDC1-26792	Updated the discovery of Java Message Service Message Queue resources in the pattern.	Red Hat JBoss Messaging	N
DRDC1-27310	Updated the pattern to prevent ECA errors related to the incorrect interpreting of the string value.	Software Containers	N
DRDC1-27001	Updated the pattern to correctly interpret the file path.	Umbraco	N
DRDC1-27308	Created a relationship between the Varnish Cache SoftwareInstance and the backend server.	Varnish Cache	N

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref.	Details	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-27325	Problem: Software Instances for Drupal are erroneously created. Solution: Code fix.	Drupal	N
DRDC1-27049	Problem: The pattern does not correctly normalize the path. Solution: Code fix.	IBM DB2 Alphablox	N
DRDC1-26901	Problem: KubernetesFunctions unnecessarily uses DiscoveryFunctions.getItemValue. Solution: Code fix.	Kubernetes Functions	N
DRDC1-24220	Problem: A traceback issue in the eca_engine log during the synchronization of Oracle Java Web Console software instances. Solution: Code fix.	Oracle Java Web Console	N
DRDC1-27031	Problem: Duplicate HostContainer relationships created for Solaris guest Logical Domains. Solution: Code fix.	Oracle VM Server for SPARC	N
DRDC1-27029	Problem: PostgreSQL creates erroneous databases. Solution: Code fix.	PostgreSQL RDBMS	N
DRDC1-27334	Problem: A significant number of invalid search requests detected from Common_LoadBalancer. Solution: Code fix.	Supported Load Balancers	N
DRDC1-27230	Problem: UNIXHost Firmware parses dates incorrectly. Solution: Code fix.	UNIX and ESX Hosts	N