Technology Knowledge Update 2012-Dec-1

BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2012-Dec-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 8.3 and 9.0 series.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2012-Dec-1 is released in two streams:

Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 8.3 series
Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 9.0 series

Note

TKU December (TKU 2012-Dec-1) is not compatible with nor supported on versions of BMC Atrium Discovery before v8.3.00

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.

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The release comprises of components packaged as two licensable entities:

BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update
- Core - Patterns that model various software products
- Extended Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases
- Middleware discovery - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain J2EE Application Servers and Web servers
- Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files, Printer definition files and SNMP Managed Device definition files
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions (Atrium Discovery 8.3.xx , Atrium Discovery 9.0.xx ) as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system

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 December In The Spotlight Page

Installation and Upgrade

Atrium Discovery 8.3.00 - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here

Atrium Discovery 9.0.00 - 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-2012-12-1.xls

In this Release

New Pattern Modules

Vendor	Product	Category	Platforms	Instances	Versioning	Product Page
IBM	Sterling File Gateway	Other Integration and Process Automation Middleware	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	IBM Sterling File Gateway
Oracle	Hyperion Financial Reporting	End-User Query, Reporting, and Analysis	Windows	Y	Y	Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting
Oracle	NoSQL Database	Nonrelational Database Management Systems	UNIX, Windows	Y	Y	Oracle NoSQL Database
Scribe Software	Insight	Data Integration and Access Software	Windows	Y	Y	Scribe Insight

Enhanced Pattern Modules

RFE ref.	Product	Enhancement	SI Key Change	Product Page
QM001766772	Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services	Pattern has been enhanced to discover and model SQL Server Integration Services packages as Detail nodes attached to the MS SQL Server Integration Services SI	N	Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services
QM001767953	BMC CONTROL-M	Patterns updated to improve file based versioning, and versioning support added for the AIX platform	N	BMC CONTROL-M
QM001770453	IBM Network Installation Management	Pattern enhanced to add a user configurable option (enabling privilege escalation) that will permit the pattern to gather relationship information if this data cannot be gathered without privilege escalation	N	IBM Network Installation Management
QM001773707	CA Wily Introscope	Patterns in the module updated to add support for discovery of version 9.x of the product through an update of the pattern trigger regex	N	CA Wily Introscope
QM001774018	Sybase ASE Cluster Edition	Pattern trigger process updated to support discovery of v15.5 and later of the product	N	Sybase ASE Cluster Edition
QM001774745	Microsoft SQL Server	Pattern enhanced so that SQL servers that are in a cluster have a 'cluster_name' attribute set in case this is obtained	N	Microsoft SQL Server
#15912	IBM Lotus Quickr	Pattern trigger updated to ensure that the pattern does not trigger if the minimum amount of data required (IBM Lotus Domino Server SI with 'install_dir' attribute set) has not been discovered by Atrium Discovery	N	IBM Lotus Quickr
#16291	Oracle Enterprise Manager	Oracle EM Server pattern was enhanced to add support for Oracle EM 11g and 12c, as well as adding file versioning approach and improving the path versioning method. The model created was also slightly updated which may lead to the SI key changing (and creation of a new SI) in certain cases	Y	Oracle Enterprise Manager
#16691	Multiple product patterns	Patterns have had a minor update to ensure mapping of certain attributes to Atrium CMDB BMC_Product CI matches Atrium Product Catalog Data (as published by BMC)	N/A	Apache HTTPD-based Webservers Apache Derby RDBMS Apache Tomcat BEA WebLogic Integration HP OpenView AssetCenter IBM Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint IBM WebSphere Application Server Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Oracle RDBMS Symantec Endpoint Protection
#16692	N/A	CMDB Sync mapping pattern that maps attributes of Atrium Discovery SIs to BMC_Product CIs (as used by Atrium Product Catalog) updated to create a closer alignment with Atrium Product Catalog Data published by BMC	N/A	Atrium Discovery 9.0 System patterns Atrium Discovery 8.3 System patterns
-	Red Hat Stronghold	Red Hat Stronghold pattern module has had its SI type (and metadata) updated to use the more correct name instead of what it was originally (Red Hat Apache Stronghold)	Y	Red Hat Stronghold
-	Sun Solaris Logical Domains	Logical Domain Manager pattern updated with additional package regex to support versioning on Solaris 11	N	Oracle VM Server for SPARC

Defects Resolved

The following defects have been fixed in BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2012-Dec-1

Case No	Defect No	Details	Product Page
ISS04019709	QM001773923	Problem: No version number detected for SAP TREX Solution: Pattern updated with additional regular expressions to parse version command output (as this varies between versions)	SAP TREX
ISS04055276	QM001774637	Problem: TIBCO Runtime Agent sets the SI key incorrectly leading to the SI being created being potentially linked to multiple hosts Solution: Code fix. SI Key has been updated	TIBCO Runtime Agent
ISS04015174	QM001775217	Problem: Following updates in TKU November 2012 to the pattern performing extended J2EE discovery of Oracle WebLogic Server it was found that the pattern can under certain circumstances exit with an ECA Engine error Solution: Code fix.	Oracle WebLogic Server
ISS04056048	QM001775333	Problem: Changes to the CMDB sync pattern (TKU October 2012) that maps some Atrium Discovery Host node attributes to BMC_OperatingSystem CI in Atrium CMDB can lead to sync failures if the OS type is known but version was not discovered (as can occur when a host is discovered by SNMP) Solution: Code fix.	Atrium Discovery System patterns
-	#16629	Code in the HP Virtual Machine Management Service pattern that creates a relationship with the database server no longer uses case sensitive search for the database name as the discovered database name of the related database server is not always in the same case	HP Virtual Machine Management Pack
-	#16651	Problem: An issue seen occasionally on Solaris platform where result of running a command can return more information than expected causes the Solaris Discovery condition pattern to exit with an ECA engine error Solution: Code fix. Relevant pattern function updated to parse the required information correctly	ADDM Discovery Condition patterns (ADDM 9.0 only)