Technology Knowledge Update 2011-Mar-1

BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2011-Mar-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 and 8.2 series.

Note

Technology Knowledge Update March 2011 (TKU 2011-Mar-1) has been removed from distribution due to a serious issue (QM001702532) affecting some of our customers, and has been superseeded by Technology Knowledge Update April 2011 (TKU 2010-Apr-2).

Note

If you have already installed this Technology Knowledge Update, it is strongly recommended that you install the latest version of the Technology Knowledge Update release (TKU 2011-Apr-2) and then remove the previous version from the appliance

Release Compatibility

TKU 2011-Mar-1 is released in two streams:

  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 series
  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 8.2 series

Note

TKU March (TKU 2011-Mar-1) is not compatible with nor supported on versions of BMC Atrium Discovery before v8.1.0

Download

Customers can access this TKU release from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. If you are a customer or partner and do not already have a login please contact your BMC account manager.

Check out this demo if you are unsure how to download from BMC EPD site

Contents

The release comprises of components packaged as two licensable entities:

  • BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update
    • Core - Patterns that model various software products
    • Deep Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases
    • Deep J2EE discovery (Atrium Discovery 8.2 and above) - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain application servers
    • Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files (compatible with Atrium Discovery 8.2.01 and above)
  • BMC Atrium Discovery Extended Data Pack
    • Product Lifecycle - Patterns that populate Atrium Discovery with information about End-of-Life, End-of-Support, and End-of-Extended-Support for versions of certain host Operating Systems as well as versions of certain software products
    • Hardware Reference Data - Patterns and data import CSV file that populate Atrium Discovery with power and heat consumption figures for various hosts.

To see some of the highlights of this release visit the March In The Spotlight Page

Installation and Upgrade

  • Atrium Discovery 8.1 - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 8.2.00 - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 8.2.01 and later - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here

A matrix covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns is available to our customers from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. The filename is TKU_Command_File_Matrix-2011-03-1.xls

In this Release

New Pattern Modules

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

Apache

Derby RDBMS

Relational Database Management Systems

UNIX, Windows

Y

Y

CA

ERwin Data Model Validator

Analysis, Modelling and Design Tools

Windows

Y

Y

IBM

DB2 Table Editor

End User, Query, and Reporting Analysis

Windows

Y

Y

IBM

FileNet Content Services

Content Management

Windows

Y

Y

IBM

Informix SQL Development

Relational Database Management Systems

UNIX

Y

Y

IBM

Lotus Forms Designer

Application Development Software

Windows

Y

Y

IBM

Lotus Forms Server - Webform Server

UNIX, Windows

Content Management

Y

Y

OpenVZ

Containers Virtualization

Virtual Machine Software

Linux

Y

Y

SAP AG

Netweaver Enterprise Portal

Enterprise Resource Management Applications

UNIX, Windows

Y

Y

SAP AG

NetWeaver Process Integration

Enterprise Resource Management Applications

UNIX, Windows

Y

Y

Enhanced Pattern Modules

RFE ref.

Product

Enhancement

SI Key Change

Product Page

QM001693606

BMC Performance Manager

Implemented versioning of the product

N

QM001693738

HP Server Automation

HP Server Automation Agent pattern updated with an additional trigger process based on customer feedback

N

QM001696544

BMC Remedy AR System

BMC Remedy AR System Mid-Tier pattern extensively updated to enable identification of Mid-Tier on both systems running the Remedy AR Server as well as stand-alone installations

Y

N/A

Eclipse Foundation Eclipse

Eclipse GUI pattern updated to model discovered plugins as Detail nodes

N

QM001676316, QM001676319

IBM DB2 RDBMS

DB2 RDBMS pattern updated to identify if any of Advanced Access Control, Storage Optimization and Base Warehouse features are enabled

N

QM001689854

Microsoft Exchange Server

Pattern update - Additional important processes are associated with the Microsoft Exchange SI

N

N/A

Microsoft Internet Information Services

Efficiency of parsing of Metabase.xml file in IIS and IISWebServer patterns improved on ADDM 8.2 and later

N

QM001692823

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server pattern enhanced with code to determine whether the SQL Server (2005 and later) is within an SQL Server cluster, and if so, the listening IP address for the cluster. This enables deep database discovery via a specific IP address in ADDM 8.2 and above

N

N/A

SAP MaxDB

Pattern module updated with an addition of SAP MaxDB DBM client pattern

N

Bugs Fixed

The following bugs have been fixed in BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2011-Mar-1

Case No

Defect No

Details

Product Page

N/A

DE60708

Improved parsing of process command-line arguments in the Apache Tomcat pattern to obtain catalina_home and catalina_base values

ISS03721444

QM001694412

Problem: Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Application Server pattern failing to obtain version information Solution: Pattern updated with new methods to obtain version information including an improvement in the way version is obtained from the registry.xml file

ISS03729983

QM001694777

Problem: Microsoft IIS pattern when parsing Metabase.xml file from IIS6 is at times failing to obtain all application names. Furthermore, naming of some applications is incorrect Solution: Pattern updated to consider Virtual Directories present at Root level as applications and model them as such. Applications with name "Default Application" are named as "<Website Name> Application"

ISS03737498

QM001697239

Problem: Activation of TKU February 2011 can fail on systems which have been upgraded from ADDM 8.1.x if those systems have had TKU December 2010 or later applied. This is due to the pattern version mismatch in the VMwareVM pattern Solution: Version mismatch fixed

N/A

N/A

VMware ESX server pattern updated to no longer create 'patch' attribute in the VMware ESX Server SI as the attribute contained a list of patches which could, due to the length of the value cause issues with sync to the CMDB. The attribute has now been renamed as 'patches' and is not synced to the CMDB by default

ISS03736241

N/A

SAP Suite pattern updated to create a second order SI only if it has triggered off a SAP Application Server of type 'Central Instance'. The pattern then also creates a containment which adds 'Dialog Instance' type of SAP Application Server

 

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