Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Apr-1


Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Apr-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2 versions of BMC Discovery. 

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Release highlights

In this release, we are delivering:

BMC HELIX PLATFORM: Added support for the following BMC PATROL knowledge modules (for more details, see the documentation here):

  • Application and middleware monitoring: Apache Hadoop (DRDC1-28107), IBM MQ Series (DRDC1-28105), Microsoft Exchange Servers (DRDC1-21464, DRDC1-27689), and Prometheus Metrics (DRDC1-21468).
  • Cloud platform monitoring: Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (DRDC1-28657) and OpenStack (DRDC1-28106).
  • Database monitoring: MongoDB (DRDC1-28609), SAP HANA (DRDC1-28097), Sybase (DRDC1-28102), and Victoria Metrics (DRDC1-27261).
  • Microsoft SQL Server monitoring: new supported MSSQL_SERVER_DB and MSSQL_SERVER_INSTANCE entities ​(DRDC1-28666).
  • Operating system monitoring: Oracle Solaris (DRDC1-28103).
  • Storage monitoring: Ceph Storage (DRDC1-28096).
  • Virtualization system monitoring: Nutanix (DRDC1-28109).

CLOUD:

  • IBM: Added a new region — Paris, France (par01). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-28996).
  • OCI: Added new regions — Kulai (ap-kulai-2) and Casablanca (af-casablanca-1). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-28951).

DISCOVERY: (Available starting from version 26.1.02) Enhanced OAuth data source configuration to permit the use of external identity providers by allowing the token endpoint parameter to accept absolute URLs. For more details, see (DRUD1-52741).

STORAGE:

  • Added support for the discovery of Hitachi VSP 5000 (REST). For more details, see (DRDC1-28727).
  • Added support for the discovery of Hitachi VSP One (REST). For more details, see (DRDC1-28626).
  • Brocade SAN Switches (FOS REST): Updated the pattern to discover the ports configured in Virtual Fabric mode, discover and create relationships with the Devices connected. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-28584).
  • Dell EMC PowerScale and Isilon: Enhanced the pattern to discover and populate capacity-related attributes, including Total Available Capacity, Total Capacity, and Total Consumed Capacity. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-28797).

Release compatibility

TKU 2026-Apr-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2. 

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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 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 2026-Apr-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 2026-Apr-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

BMC Discovery Outpost version included in TKU 2026-Apr-1:

 Component                Version              
BMC Discovery Outpost                                   154.7.51.70051

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

Defect ref.DescriptionNotes
DRUD1-58625Resolved an issue with OpenSSL 3.0.8 on Outposts that led to security vulnerabilities when updating to version 3.0.19.NA

Products

We have no new products to report at this time.

RFEs

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

RFE ref.EnhancementProduct pageSI key change

DRDC1-28714

DRDC1-28648

Improved versioning.N
DRDC1-28890Updated the pattern to use the standard SoftwareInstance naming convention.AppDynamicsN
DRDC1-28819Improved the pattern to ensure that SoftwareInstances age out correctly.Contributed Systems SidekiqN
DRDC1-28710Updated the pattern to ensure discovered instances are correctly synced to the BMC_PRODUCT class.DockerN
DRDC1-28539Improved the pattern to prevent false identification of Illumio Consul as HashiCorp Consul.N
DRDC1-28640Added support for discovering IBM Workload Scheduler Agent Software Instances, including version and lifecycle details, on UNIX and Windows platforms.IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Maestro)N
DRDC1-28817Improved the pattern to prevent index out of range ECA errors.IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service BusN
DRDC1-28783Updated the pattern to ensure that it runs only when .NET is installed, and also corrected the pattern name to dotnet.Microsoft .NETN
DRDC1-28590Enhanced MongoDB extended discovery by adding an alternative command for database enumeration on Linux systems.MongoDB - Database Detail PatternN
DRDC1-28835Improved MariaDB/MySQL discovery to correctly detect the datadir when it is specified in an included configuration file by using the my_print_defaults command.MySQL RDBMSN
DRDC1-28873Enhanced the Oracle RDBMS pattern to support the inferred-sync feature.

 

The update involves the following modules:N

DRDC1-28559

DRDC1-27473

DRDC1-27132

Enhanced Windows certificate discovery by extracting the following additional attributes from discovery.getCertificate():

  • authority_key_id
  • public_key_algorithm
  • public_key_size
  • signature_algorithm
  • subject_key_id

Also, updated Windows certificate discovery to correctly process end-of-line characters.

TLS Certificates DiscoveryY

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref.DetailsProduct pageSI key change
DRDC1-28910

Problem: The stable identity flag on a Kubernetes Node software instances can be incorrectly set.

Solution: Code fix.

KubernetesN
DRDC1-28348

Problem: PostgreSQL Extended Discovery does not correctly handle special database names containing spaces or quotes, as reported by the psql command. As a result, database nodes with such names are not created.

Solution: Code fix.

PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail PatternN
DRDC1-28803

Problem: The pattern incorrectly identifies the WildFly software instance version.

Solution: Code fix.

Red Hat JBoss Application ServerN
DRDC1-27885

Problem: The pattern incorrectly parses JBoss EAP from the output of the run.sh -V command.

Solution: Code fix.

Red Hat JBoss Application ServerN
DRDC1-28650

Problem: The Windows Certificate pattern does not set the type attribute and has data quality issues, including missing Organizational Unit and invalid Public Key Size fields.

Solution: Code fix.

TLS Certificates DiscoveryN

 

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