PREM BMC Discovery

The goal of BMC Discovery is to automate asset discovery and identify systems in the network and obtain relevant information from them as quickly as possible and with the lowest impact, using a variety of different tools and techniques to communicate. 

PREM Release notes and notices Updated 21 Mar 2025

Learn what’s new or changed for BMC Discovery 24.2 (14.0), including new features, urgent issues, documentation updates, and fixes or patches.

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July 15, 2024

Issues that were corrected by 24.2 patch 1 and issues that remain open.

May 9, 2024

The following enhancements are available in this release of BMC Discovery:

  • BMC Discovery24.2 introduces improvements to the way that reasoning works. Part of the reasoning changes make improvements to TPL compilation and execution.
  • Securely register Outposts using the REST APIs
  • Filter on relationship attributes in the visual query builder
  • Produce compact JSON output from the REST API
  • Discover and display additional attributes for TLS Certificate Discovery.
  • The BMC Discovery Outpost only uses 'Modern' ciphers as defined by Mozilla. See this article on the Mozilla website.

Note

You can upgrade to version 24.2 (14.0) from version 12.0 (20.02) or later. For information about the upgrade, see Upgrading.

Click here to see the steps.

The BMC Documentation portal gives you the ability to generate PDF and Microsoft Word documents of single pages, and to create PDF exports of multiple pages in a space.  

You can create a PDF of a page or a set of pages. (Non-English page exports are not supported.) You can also create a Word document of the current page.

To export to PDF or Word

  1. From the Export menu in the upper-right, select a format:
    • Export to PDF to export the current page or a set of pages to PDF
    • Export to Word to export the current page to Word format
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  2. If exporting to PDF, select what you want to export:
    • Only this page to export the current page
    • This page and its children to export a set of pages

For example, selecting This page and its children from the home page exports the entire space to PDF.

 

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Getting started

Intended for anyone who is starting to evaluate, use, or deploy BMC Discovery.

Planning

Plan an installation based on recommended sizing and system requirements, performance tuning and benchmarks, and licensing entitlement.

Installing

Install the product and learn how to migrate the product data.

Upgrading

Perform pre-upgrade tasks, upgrade BMC Discovery, Windows proxies, and BMC Discovery Outpost, and perform post-upgrade configuration.

Service and application modeling

As a regular user, get a quick and easy approach to service and application modeling, which enables you to choose any entry points into an application or service, and begin modeling from there.

BMC Discovery Outpost

Know about BMC Discovery Outpost, the application software that runs as a lightweight Windows service on a dedicated Windows server in your data center or on a public cloud for the discovery of all types of devices.

Security

As a network administrator, learn about security audits, firewall ports, and more to ensure a secure installation of BMC Discovery.

Integrating

As a user or administrator, explore how you can integrate BMC Discovery with other products.

Using

As a user or administrator, understand the standard pages and methods of navigating the BMC Discovery UI.

Administering

As an administrator, manage users and groups, clusters, licenses, and more in BMC Discovery.

Developing

As a developer, access information describing the TPL and node lifecycle.

Troubleshooting

Resolve common issues or errors, review logs, or contact Support.

BMC Discovery content reference

As a user, explore the products that BMC Discovery can discover and know about the monthly TKU updates.
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PDFs and videos

Get a list of all the videos and a PDF version of the BMC Discovery documentation.

FAQ

Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about BMC Discovery.

Related spaces

See the documentation of products related to BMC Discovery.
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