Tideway Knowledge Update 2008-Dec-1

The Tideway Knowledge Update 2008-Dec-1 (TKU 2008 Dec) is a deliverable for Tideway Foundation platform version 7.1.7 and later.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2008-Dec-1 has been tested and verified against Tideway Foundation version 7.1.7.

Note

TKU December 2008 (TKU 2008-Dec-1) is not supported on versions of Tideway Foundation before v7.1.7

Download

Customers can access this TKU release from the Tideway Downloads site and then clicking Download Area->latesttku. If you're a customer or partner and don't already have a login to this site or have forgotten yours please contact support@tideway.com.

Installation and Upgrade

Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here.

New Software Instance Patterns

Vendor	Product	Category	Platforms	Instances	Versioning	Module
Acresso	FlexNet Publisher	Identity and Access Management	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Acresso.FLEXnetPublisher
BEA	AquaLogic Business Process Management	Integration Server Software Platforms	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	BEA.AquaLogic.BPM
BEA	MessageQ	Message Orientated Middleware	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	BEA.MessageQ
IBM	Tivoli Composite Application Manager for ISM	Performance Management Software	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	IBM.Tivoli.CompositeApplicationManager.ISM
Microsoft	Dynamics CRM	Customer Relationship Management	Windows	Y	Y	Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM
Microsoft	Project Server	Project and Portfolio Management	Windows	Y	Y	Microsoft.ProjectServer
Microsoft	SQL Reporting Services	End User, Query, and Reporting Analysis	Windows	Y	Y	Microsoft.SQLServerRS
Sophos	Anti-Virus	Secure Content and Threat Management	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Sophos.AntiVirus

Enhanced Software Instance Patterns

Vendor	Product	Enhancement	SI Key Change	Module
Microsoft	SQL Server	Pattern attempts to obtain port the server is listening on. Additionally, pattern attempts to obtain the list of databases managed by the DB server. The code that determines whether an instance-based or group-based SI will be created has been improved to create instance-based SIs more often	Y	Microsoft.SQLServer
MySQL AB	MySQL RDBMS	Pattern attempts to obtain port the server is listening on. SI Key updated to use this information	Y	MySQL_AB.MySQL_RDBMS

Bugs Fixed

The following bugs have been fixed in Tideway Knowledge Update 2008-Dec-1.

Case No	Defect No	Details	Pattern Module
N/A	10941	Problem: A simple identifier description of one of the simple identifiers in BEA WebLogic Application Server pattern module is misspelt Resolution: BEA WebLogic Application Server Simple identifier description updated	BEA.WebLogicApplicationServer
N/A	10983	Problem: IBM System P hardware pattern may fail to parse model number, leading it to fail to complete and fail to create a hardware container Resolution: Regular expression parsing the hardware model number improved	Hardware.IBM.AIXSystem_p
N/A	11002	Problem: Certain characters in WebSphere MQ pattern package name regular expressions not correctly escaped - could lead to version not being extracted Resolution:* Characters in regular expressions now correctly escaped	IBM.WebSphereMQ
N/A	11019	Problem: TKU package contained duplicate simple identifiers for Symantec ESM components Resolution: Duplicate simple identifiers removed	SystemsAndInfrastructureSoftware.SimpleIdentifiers
N/A	11020	Problem: Hypersonic SQL DB simple identifier creates a lot of false positives as the regular expression will also match on processes when Hypersonic SQL libs are used as well. Resolution: Hypersonic SQL DB simple identifier removed	SystemsAndInfrastructureSoftware.SimpleIdentifiers
N/A	11101	Problem: The Microsoft IIS pattern is retrieving an XML file in order to get a list of Web Sites, and the path to that file is extracted by looking at the "systemroot" environment variable. However, the regex extracting the path doesn't account for the trailing Return Carriage character, resulting in a path like the following: C:\Windows^M\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml Resolution: Regular expression extracting the path now ensures that return carriage is not included	Microsoft.IIS

New Active Commands

The following active commands are new in this release:

AcressoFLEXnetPublisher

Module: Acresso.FLEXnetPublisher
- Pattern: LicenseServerManager_lmadmin
  - Active command to obtain version information - <abs. path to trigger process> -v
- Pattern: LicenseServerManager_lmgrd
  - Active command to obtain version information - <abs. path to trigger process> -v

BEA MessageQ

Module: BEA.MessageQ
- Pattern: MessageQ
  - Active command to get full path to the trigger process (if not retrieved) - Linux only and disabled by default as it requires 'sudo' privileges - /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/readlink /proc/<process pid>/exe

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Internet Service Monitoring

Module: IBM.Tivoli.CompositeApplicationManager.ISM
- Pattern: ITCAM_ISM_Bridge_Win
  - Active command to obtain version information - <abs. path to trigger process> -version
  - Alternative active command to obtain version information - <installation path>\KinCInfo -i
- Pattern: ITCAM_ISM_Bridge__Unix
  - Active command to obtain version information - <abs. path to trigger process> -version
- Pattern: ITCAM_ISM_Monitor
  - Active command to obtain version information (Windows) - <abs. path to Databridge process> -version
  - Alternative active command to obtain version information (Windows only) - <installation path>\KinCInfo -i
  - Active command to obtain version information (UNIX) - <installation path>/bin/nco_m_bridge> -version

Microsoft SQL Server

Module: Microsoft.SQLServer
- Pattern: SQLServer
  - Active command to obtain a listing of the database directory - cmd /c DIR /B <path to Data directory>*.mdf
  - Active command to list databases managed by SQL server via osql command-line client - <path to osql.exe> -S <hostname\server name> -E -Q "USE master; SELECT Name FROM sysdatabases"

MySQL RDBMS

Module: MySQL_AB.MySQL_RDBMS
- Pattern: DatabaseServer
  - Active command to extract port information (UNIX only) - <abs. path to trigger process> --verbose --help | grep port

Sophos Anti-Virus

Module: Sophos.AntiVirus
- Pattern: AntiVirusUnix
  - Active command to obtain installation path - on Linux only (uses 'locate') - /usr/bin/locate sophos-av/engine/version

Notes

If you have chosen not to delete the Software Instances created using a previous TKU, for any pattern where the SI key has changed, any host where the above software instances were created will have another set of software instances created following installation of a newer TKU and re-scan. The software instances created by the previous TKU patterns will disappear once they have aged out (see Tideway Foundation documentation for description of SI aging).

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