This documentation supports the 21.05 (12.2) version of BMC Discovery.To view an earlier version of the product, select the version from the Product version menu.

Out-of-the-box discovery capabilities

BMC Discovery provides you several out-of-the-box capabilities to help you get started with discovering your IT infrastructure. For example, as soon as you configure credentials in your system, you can begin a search for software or SNMP devices in your environment. 

Related topics

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In addition, BMC Discovery provides The Pattern Language (TPL), a tool where you can use patterns to describe applications and products specific to your environment, and enrich your discovered data. However, an important feature of BMC Discovery is that even before you can refine and expand your discovery search using TPL, you can use the out-of-the-box capabilities.

This section describes the discovery capabilities available to you at startup.

Software

The software that can be discovered by BMC Discovery increases with each monthly TKU release. This section contains information from BMC Discovery content reference, which details the applications that can be discovered with the latest TKU installed. Clicking one of the links in this section will take you directly to the content reference website.Patterns can help you identify the configuration of run time products in your data centers. Choose how you want to find the products of interest to you:

SNMP devices

The number of SNMP devices that can be discovered by BMC Discovery increases with each monthly TKU release. This section contains information from BMC Discovery content reference, which details the applications that can be discovered with the latest TKU installed. Clicking the links in this section will take you directly to the content reference website.
The following classes of SNMP device are supported.

Monthly TKU releases might increase the SNMP device coverage.

Localization support

BMC Discovery supports the discovery of systems in any locale.