22.1 enhancements and patches

BMC Discovery 22.1 (12.4) runs on CentOS 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can upgrade directly to BMC Discovery version 22.1 (12.4) from version 20.02 (12.0) and later if you retain the same OS. To move from CentOS 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you must install BMC Discovery 22.1 (12.4) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and then migrate your data. To migrate your data, you must back up the CentOS based appliance and restore it to a new BMC Discovery appliance running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

To move from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to CentOS, you must install BMC Discovery 22.1 (12.4) on CentOS and then migrate your data.

Related topics

Installing-from-the-Kickstart-DVD

Installing-the-virtual-appliance

Known-and-corrected-issues

Release-notes-and-notices

Deprecated and discontinued featuresBMC Discovery training and certification

If you are new to BMC Discovery, we recommend that you see Getting-started as an introduction to using the product.

Review the BMC Discovery 22.1 (12.4) enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users. 

Version

Fixed issues

Updates and enhancements

22.1.01

None

22.1.00 (12.4)

For instructions about upgrading to 22.1 patches, see Upgrading.

Discover Google Compute Engine instances by using Identity-Aware Proxy

BMC Discovery supports the full discovery of Google Compute Engine (GCE) hosts during a Google cloud scan by using Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP). You also have access to GCE instances in private networks. For more information, see Discovering-hosts-in-GCP-by-using-IAP.

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 For information about Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), see IAP.

Enhanced mainframe discovery includes observed communications

BMC Discovery supports the discovery and modeling of observed communication from mainframe computers. The feature name is Mainframe Connection Linking, and is separately licensed and enabled.

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Intelligent discovery of cloud services by region

The discovery of cloud services by region is enhanced with the following features:

  • The discovery process requests the details of cloud services for a particular region only if that service is available in that region.
  • The discovery process is optimized and efficient.
  • Discovery Access results do not show errors for non-existent services.

Miscellaneous enhancements

The following miscellaneous enhancements are available in this release:


What else has changed in this release?

 

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