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Important This documentation space contains information about the on-premises version of BMC Helix Discovery. If you are using the SaaS version of BMC Helix Discovery, see BMC Helix Discovery (SaaS).

BMC Helix Discovery 24.2 (On-Premises)

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.

Release notes and notices Updated 05 May 2026


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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September 1, 2025 Issues that were corrected by 24.2 patch 2 and issues that remain open. Release notes and notices
July 15, 2024 Issues that were corrected by 24.2 patch 1 and issues that remain open. Release notes and notices

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

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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

BMC Discovery content reference

As a developer, explore the patterns repository and know the products and network devices that BMC Discovery can discover. Know the schedule and roadmap for the monthly TKU updates.

Planning

As an administrator, understand the sizing and scalability considerations, system requirements, and licensing entitlement for your environment.

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. This section is of particular relevance to BMC Helix AIOps users.

Security

As a security team member, explore the information required to verify the security of BMC Discovery and enable network administrators to run the BMC Discovery Outpost in your environment.

Integrating

As an administrator, understand how BMC Discovery integrates with other products.

Using

As a regular user, get acquainted with the standard pages and methods of navigating the BMC Discovery UI.

Developing

As a developer, familiarize yourself with information about TPL and the node lifecycle.

Troubleshooting

Resolve issues in your environment, collect logs, and contact customer support.
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