Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Feb-1


Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Feb-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:

  • Improved the Import.BHOM.PGR_ENVIRONMENT module to support cloud-hosted databases. For more details, see (DRDC1-28072).
  • Updated the BHOM Oracle Database pattern to discover the instances of cloud-hosted databases. For more details, see (DRDC1-28230).

CLOUD:

  • OCI: Added support for OCI Network Security Groups. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27090).
  • OPENSTACK: Added support for NingOS to enable OpenStack H3C discovery through SSH. For more details, see (DRDC1-28343).

END OF LIFE SUPPORT:

  • Improved reporting of End of Extended Support (EoES) dates for RHEL 6.x and 7.x in the October 2025 TKU. For more details, see (DRDC1-27636).

​​TAXONOMY/NETWORK DEVICES:

  • Added the Provider/Consumer relationship between NetworkService and Collection (including Administrative Collection). For more details, see (DRDC1-28038).

Release compatibility

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

The supported Outpost and Proxies for the current release are:

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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-Feb-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-Feb-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

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

Defect ref.DescriptionNotes
DRUD1-54880

Fixed a routing issue when multiple Active Directory credentials are defined on an outpost.

NA
DRUD1-54058Resolved an issue where an outpost was stuck processing a backlog of get metrics requests.NA
DRUD1-54749Resolved an issue with an increased memory consumption.Detected during Microsoft Azure cloud scans. 

Products

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

Vendor 

Product Category PlatformInstancesVersioningProduct pageRFE ref.
HitachiOps Center AdministratorStorage and Device Management SoftwareUNIXYYHitachi Ops Center AdministratorDRDC1-27858
Software AGPlatform ManagerPerformance Management SoftwareUNIX, WindowsYYSoftware AG Platform ManagerDRDC1-28323
SonarSonarQube ServerSearch and DiscoveryUNIXYYSonarQube ServerDRDC1-28292

RFEs

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

RFE ref.EnhancementProduct pageSI key change

DRDC1-28092

DRDC1-28456

Improved versioning.N
DRDC1-28308Updated the parseArgs function to correctly extract catalina.home values, including those with Windows-specific arguments.Apache TomcatN
DRDC1-28254Improved the ucxjlx6-hostname command to correctly trigger the creation of a software instance for Automic ONE Automation Agent.Automic ONE AutomationN
DRDC1-27052Improved the database discovery function to properly handle invalid port numbers.Common functionN
DRDC1-27370Improved data modeling to create relationships between Synergy Blade Enclosures and their associated Virtual Connects.HPE Synergy BladeSystemN
DRDC1-25593Improved discovery of Network Time Protocol (NTP) server addresses provided by a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.Microsoft DHCP ServerN
DRDC1-28170Improved Hyper-V Virtual Machine discovery to populate IP and MAC address information.Microsoft Hyper-V ServerN
DRDC1-28077Improved MongoDB API integration by adding the ability to specify replicaSet and authSource options in the connection string.MongoDBN
DRDC1-28390Improved Oracle RDBMS table discovery to report details of non-cloud-hosted instances.Oracle DatabaseN
DRDC1-27977Improved the pattern's type assessment to properly create a software instance of the MariaDB Database Server type.Oracle MySQL ServerN
DRDC1-26836

Improved the pattern to discover OpenShift host nodes with multiple network interfaces.

Red Hat OpenShiftN
DRDC1-27125Improved data completeness for ESXi hosts by updating the model to use NetworkService instead of Cluster for VMware NSX-T.VMware NSXY
DRDC1-28248Updated the pattern to set the virtual attribute for OpenShift hosts linked to VMware virtual machines during API discovery.VMware Virtual Machine softwareN

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref.DetailsProduct pageSI key change
DRDC1-28246

Problem: The Apache Cassandra pattern uses the wrong path or entirely escapes it when running a command for database discovery.

Solution: Code fix.

Apache CassandraN
DRDC1-28132

Problem: Nutanix HardwareController is not created after detecting a new kernel string.

Solution: Code fix.

Nutanix Rest DiscoveryN
DRDC1-28041

Problem: The PostgreSQL Extended Discovery pattern creates false Database nodes from error output.

Solution: Code fix.

PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail PatternN
DRDC1-27905

Problem: The JBoss pattern does not correctly obtain the version from the directory listing.

Solution: Code fix.

Red Hat JBoss Application ServerN

 

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