Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Mar-1

Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Mar-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):
- Google Cloud Platform (DRDC1-27254).
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (DRDC1-20965).
- SAP Solution Manager (DRDC1-28098).
- Windows Service Monitoring (DRDC1-28664).

CLOUD:

GCP: Added a new region — Bangkok (asia-southeast3). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-28712).
IBM: Improved the IBM Cloud discovery by adding support for the Direct endpoint of IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-28562).
OCI: Added support for Bastion instances, enabling their identification and linking to related subnets and Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs). For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25658).

CMDB SYNC:

CMDB SYNC: Improved synchronization of Azure Application Gateway (LoadBalancerInstance) nodes to BMC CMDB. For more details, see (DRDC1-27428).

LOGICAL NETWORK RELATIONSHIP DISCOVERY:

Starting with BMC Helix Discovery version 25.2 (on-premises) and 25.2.02 (SaaS), we have added support to discover relationships based on Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPN data. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27927).

NETWORK:

Added support for implicit scanning of Palo Alto devices managed by the Panorama management tool. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-24413).

PATTERNS:

Apache HTTPD-based Webservers: Improved the pattern to differentiate Software Instance names by including server name or instance information. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-26341).
Kubernetes: Added support for automatic Kubernetes workload scan. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-27429).
Red Hat KVM (for more details, see the documentation here):
- Enhanced the pattern to get triggered by the latest Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) version (DRDC1-27479).
- Improved the pattern to use the domiflist command for MAC address retrieval and to model powered-off virtual machines (DRDC1-27891).

STORAGE:

Dell EMC PowerFlex Storage Systems: Improved disk drive discovery by using an alternative attribute to retrieve the disk name when it is not set in versions earlier than 4.0, and by utilizing REST credentials for discovering Disk Drive nodes in version 4.x and later. For more details, see (DRDC1-28391).
Host side linking: Created a StorageUse relationship between Host and StorageVolume from the FC port and Storage Connection nodes. For more details, see (DRDC1-27447).

VIRTUALIZATION:

Nutanix: Enhanced consolidator data management to remove outdated virtual machine records after scanner rebuilds and credential changes from VMware vCenter to Nutanix Management Controller. For more details, see (DRDC1-27883).
VMware vCenter Server: Improved VMware vCenter modeling to include the full hierarchy of Resource Pools for virtual machines. For more details, see the documentation here and (DRDC1-25928).

Release compatibility

TKU 2026-Mar-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-Mar-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-Mar-1 is available here.

Outpost updates

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

Component	Version
BMC Discovery Outpost	154.6.9905.69905

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

Defect ref.	Description	Notes
DRUD1-46832	Resolved an issue with BMC Helix Outpost configuration sync inefficiency in clustered environments.	NA
DRUD1-58093	Resolved an issue with excessive accumulation of processes leading to the system's unresponsiveness. The solution replaces the nslookup process with socket.getaddrinfo.	NA
DRUD1-58183	Resolved an issue with excessive memory consumption during AWS and GCP scans.	NA

Products

The following new product is introduced within the scope of this release.

Vendor	Product	Category	Platform	Instances	Versioning	Product page	RFE ref.
VictoriaMetrics	VictoriaMetrics	Nonrelational Database Management Systems	UNIX	Y	Y	VictoriaMetrics	DRDC1-28288

RFEs

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

RFE ref.	Enhancement	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-26198	Updated the pattern to run the --command-config command if alternative ones fail. Also, added a configuration option for setting the location of the permissions file.	Apache Kafka	N
DRDC1-28674 DRDC1-28447 DRDC1-28552 DRDC1-28163 DRDC1-28428 DRDC1-28238 DRDC1-28436	Improved versioning.	Apache Zookeeper CA SiteMinder Elasticsearch IBM Spectrum Scale ObserveIT Oracle HTTP Server TIBCO Hawk Agent	N
DRDC1-26651	Improved the Cisco AppDynamics Agent pattern to prevent duplicate Software Instances and ensure correct version information.	AppDynamics	N
DRDC1-28183	Updated the CA Workload Automation Agent pattern to enhance version discovery and to include install_root and instance attributes.	CA Workload Automation	N
DRDC1-28373	Improved the RabbitMQ pattern to handle error messages and permission issues more gracefully.	Discovery Functions	N
DRDC1-26995	Amalgamated the separate pattern modules for Elastic Filebeat, Elastic Metricbeat, and Elastic Winlogbeat into the Elastic Beats pattern module.	Elastic Beats	N
DRDC1-28606	Improved the HP ServiceGuard Cluster pattern to support alternative command paths, correct privileges, and compatibility with HP version 11.3.	HP ServiceGuard	N
DRDC1-28634	Updated the pattern so that IBM Cognos Express Reporter is now recognized as IBM Cognos Analytics when triggered by the BIBusTKServerMain process.	IBM Cognos Express	N
DRDC1-28223	Updated the Software Instance type of the patterns to correctly identify product names.	IBM Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL	N
DRDC1-28274	The following improvements are delivered for Drupal: Added a new method to find linked databases by using the settings.php file. Added a new method to find the version by using the bootstrap.inc file. Updated how the pattern finds install_root.	Drupal	N
DRDC1-28639	Improved Kubernetes API hosts aging logic.	Kubernetes	N
DRDC1-28585	Improved the NginxWebserver.Nginx pattern to prevent iteration errors during discovery.	Nginx Webserver	N
DRDC1-27916 DRDC1-28401	The following improvements are delivered for Oracle Database: Improved the Oracle Database model for API and IP scans to address issues introduced in TKU 2025-Oct-1. Updated the OracleRDBMS pattern for OCI Cloud IP-scanned clusters to address issues with inconsistent cluster identification and to ensure that the db_name attribute is correctly populated.	Oracle Database	N
DRDC1-28541	Enhanced the detection of Gemfire Locator and Gemfire Server components by matching Java processes with the appropriate arguments for LocatorLauncher and ServerLauncher.	Pivotal GemFire	N
DRDC1-28337	Improved CPU information discovery for Xen guests (HVM domU) by allowing the use of standard commands when the xm or xl command is not available.	Processor Information	N
DRDC1-26790	Added Linux support.	Software AG Event Replicator Target Adapter	N
DRDC1-28706	Improved the UnixHost.NTP pattern to prevent errors when ntp_source is void.	UNIX and ESX Hosts	N

Defects resolved

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

Defect ref.	Details	Product page	SI key change
DRDC1-28371	Problem: The pattern does not correctly escape the install_root. Solution: Code fix.	Apache Cassandra	N
DRDC1-28694	Problem: Apache Tomcat is incorrectly identified as Oracle WebLogic Server when the Java process includes the -Dweblogic.Name argument. Solution: Code fix.	Apache Tomcat	N
DRDC1-28521	Problem: Elasticsearch patterns cause instance failures due to BAD_PARAM errors and unresolved placeholders. Solution: Code fix.	Elasticsearch	N
DRDC1-28808	Problem: The version and name values of a Stable Java Virtual Machine RuntimeEnvironment node do not always match the values of the related Ephemeral Contained RuntimeEnvironment nodes. Solution: Code fix.	Java Virtual Machine	N
DRDC1-28591	Problem: The SupportingFiles.NVD_Database_Linking.NVD_SI_Data pattern does not verify that model.host(trigger_si) returns a result. Solution: Code fix.	National Vulnerability Database	N
DRDC1-28586	Problem: The pattern fails with an error because the source of an attribute value was not a node or table. Solution: Code fix.	OpenSearch	N
DRDC1-28528	Problem: The Patroni pattern fails to process .yml files with quotes, which might cause an ECA error. Solution: Code fix.	Patroni	N