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Product content TKU 2025-Oct-1

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

Warning

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.

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Feature updates

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

  • CERTIFICATES: We now discover a TLS certificate for Citrix NetScaler VPX. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24089).
  • CLOUD/AWS: When expanding wildcard AWS roles, we now list only active accounts. For more details, see (DRDC1-27010).
  • 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).
  • CLOUD/AZURE: Added a new region — Vienna, Austria (austriaeast). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27300).
  • CLOUD/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
  • CLOUD/AZURE: Added support for the Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27170).
  • CLOUD/GCP: Added firewall policies for Google Virtual Private Cloud (GCP VPC). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24557).
  • CLOUD/MongoDB ATLAS: Enhanced the base pattern to populate additional attributes, diskSizeGB and tags, by using data fetched from Atlas.listClusters calls. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24844).
  • CLOUD/OCI: Added support for DBSystems with cluster and node configurations, along with time-related attributes. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25406). 
  • CLOUD/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).
  • CLOUD/OCI: Enhanced the InferOracleSystem pattern to prevent erroneous removal of Oracle OCI API Databases upon timeouts. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26811).
  • CLOUD/OCI: Ensured consistent key generation for Oracle Database Server SIs to prevent duplication during OCI and SSH scans. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26816).
  • CLOUD/OCI: Replaced the OCI Object storage CloudResource node type with StorageVolume. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25903).
  • CLOUD/OCI: Updated the pattern to prevent creating databases with the FAILED Lifecycle State. For more details, see (DRDC1-26746).
  • CLOUD/OCI: Started filtering OCI VMs by the lifecycle_state attribute to differentiate OCI Databases in the Terminated state. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26216).
  • DISASTER RECOVERY: Added a command to clean the remaining datadir directories after a successful restore. For more details, see (DRUD1-52924).
  • LICENSING: Added a new licensing query to count Ethernet ports. For more details, see (DRDC1-27241).
  • NETWORK DEVICES: Avi Networks Load Balancer services are now properly synced with BMC Helix CMDB. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27169).
  • NETWORK DEVICES: Enhanced the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API discovery to properly handle API rate limits. For more information, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27339).
  • 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).
  • STORAGE/Dell EMC PowerMax Symmetrix (REST): Added the Firmware Version attribute to the StorageProcessor Node and the Version attribute to the StorageSystem Node. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27296).
  • STORAGE/Dell EMC PowerMax Symmetrix (REST): Updated the pattern to properly discover the Dell EMC PowerMax Series 2000 StorageDevice. For more details, see (DRDC1-27076).
  • STORAGE: Added Identification Timeout Options to the Web API credential page of the following storage patterns:
    • 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

Defects

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

  • CLOUD/OCI: Resolved an issue with erroneous Host node deletion when scanned with OCI and SSH. For more details, see (DRDC1-26973).
  • CLOUD/KUBERNETES: Resolved an issue with erroneous deletion of Business Services model data after rescan. For more details, see (DRDC1-26968).
  • CMDB SYNC: Resolved an issue with a missing cloud ID of mapped cloud database CIs in OOTB sync mappings. For more details, see (DRDC1-27014).
  • CMDB SYNC: Resolved an issue with the duplication of Kubernetes load balancers during CMDB sync. For more details, see (DRDC1-26266).
  • DEEP CONTAINER DISCOVERY: Fixed an issue where the deep container discovery scan ended with an ECA error. For more details, see (DRDC1-27340).
  • DISASTER RECOVERY: Fixed an issue when the disaster recovery (DR) script reset the Log Sequence Number (LSN) on compacted generations. Now, a filter has been added to reset the LSN only on 'g' generations, excluding 'c' compacted generations. For more details, see (DRUD1-53234).
  • DISASTER RECOVERY: Resolved an issue where the hostname field was missing when moving from secondary to primary after a DR restore. For more details, see (DRUD1-53476).
  • DISCOVERY: Resolved an issue related to a failing getProcessList method with the unexpected output format error on Windows servers. We now replace \r and \n with spaces to force the CommandLine to be a single line. For more details, see (DRUD1-51585).
  • REASONING: Fixed a bug with DiscoveredOSNamespaces nodes being created in the default partition. For more details, see (DRUD1-53007).
  • STORAGE: Resolved an issue with the incorrectly discovered model value of the Fibre Channel Switch device. For more details, see (DRDC1-27004).
  • VCENTER: Fixed an issue with a misleading error message when an implicit vCenter scan failed. For more details, see (DRUD1-53348).

Changes to discovery commands

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

Model changes

  • TAXONOMY/CLOUD: Added the Configuration:Member:Collection:Collection:CloudService relationship to cater for the GCP VPC firewall update. For more details, see (DRDC1-24557).
  • TAXONOMY/CLOUD: Improved linkage between the F5 Networks device and the related virtual machine. For more details, see (DRDC1-27130).
  • TAXONOMY/CLOUD: Resolved an issue with a missing Configuration node in the Element:Maintainer:Pattern:Pattern relationship. For more details, see (DRDC1-27050).

 

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