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.
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. | Description | Notes |
| DRUD1-54880 | Fixed a routing issue when multiple Active Directory credentials are defined on an outpost. | NA |
| DRUD1-54058 | Resolved an issue where an outpost was stuck processing a backlog of get metrics requests. | NA |
| DRUD1-54749 | Resolved 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 | Platform | Instances | Versioning | Product page | RFE ref. |
| Hitachi | Ops Center Administrator | Storage and Device Management Software | UNIX | Y | Y | Hitachi Ops Center Administrator | DRDC1-27858 |
| Software AG | Platform Manager | Performance Management Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | Software AG Platform Manager | DRDC1-28323 |
| Sonar | SonarQube Server | Search and Discovery | UNIX | Y | Y | SonarQube Server | DRDC1-28292 |
RFEs
The following RFEs are introduced within the scope of this release.
| RFE ref. | Enhancement | Product page | SI key change |
|---|---|---|---|
DRDC1-28092 DRDC1-28456 | Improved versioning. | N | |
| DRDC1-28308 | Updated the parseArgs function to correctly extract catalina.home values, including those with Windows-specific arguments. | Apache Tomcat | N |
| DRDC1-28254 | Improved the ucxjlx6-hostname command to correctly trigger the creation of a software instance for Automic ONE Automation Agent. | Automic ONE Automation | N |
| DRDC1-27052 | Improved the database discovery function to properly handle invalid port numbers. | Common function | N |
| DRDC1-27370 | Improved data modeling to create relationships between Synergy Blade Enclosures and their associated Virtual Connects. | HPE Synergy BladeSystem | N |
| DRDC1-25593 | Improved discovery of Network Time Protocol (NTP) server addresses provided by a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. | Microsoft DHCP Server | N |
| DRDC1-28170 | Improved Hyper-V Virtual Machine discovery to populate IP and MAC address information. | Microsoft Hyper-V Server | N |
| DRDC1-28077 | Improved MongoDB API integration by adding the ability to specify replicaSet and authSource options in the connection string. | MongoDB | N |
| DRDC1-28390 | Improved Oracle RDBMS table discovery to report details of non-cloud-hosted instances. | Oracle Database | N |
| DRDC1-27977 | Improved the pattern's type assessment to properly create a software instance of the MariaDB Database Server type. | Oracle MySQL Server | N |
| DRDC1-26836 | Improved the pattern to discover OpenShift host nodes with multiple network interfaces. | Red Hat OpenShift | N |
| DRDC1-27125 | Improved data completeness for ESXi hosts by updating the model to use NetworkService instead of Cluster for VMware NSX-T. | VMware NSX | Y |
| DRDC1-28248 | Updated the pattern to set the virtual attribute for OpenShift hosts linked to VMware virtual machines during API discovery. | VMware Virtual Machine software | N |
Defects resolved
The following defects are fixed within the scope of this release.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product page | SI 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 Cassandra | N |
| DRDC1-28132 | Problem: Nutanix HardwareController is not created after detecting a new kernel string. Solution: Code fix. | Nutanix Rest Discovery | N |
| DRDC1-28041 | Problem: The PostgreSQL Extended Discovery pattern creates false Database nodes from error output. Solution: Code fix. | PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern | N |
| DRDC1-27905 | Problem: The JBoss pattern does not correctly obtain the version from the directory listing. Solution: Code fix. | Red Hat JBoss Application Server | N |