Technology Knowledge Update 2012-Jun-1
BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2012-Jun-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 8.2 and 8.3 series.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2012-Jun-1 is released in two streams:
- Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 8.2 series
- Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 8.3 series
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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 - 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) and Printer definition files (compatible with Atrium Discovery 8.3 and above)
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions 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 June In The Spotlight Page
Installation and Upgrade
- 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
- Atrium Discovery 8.3.00 - 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-2012-06-1.xls
In this Release
New Pattern Modules
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IBM | Database Encryption Expert | Data Protection and Recovery Software | UNIX | Y | Y | |
IBM | DB2 Connect | Data Integration and Access Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
IBM | ILOG ODM Enterprise Optimization | Data Integration and Access Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
Microsoft | System Center Operations Manager | Event Automation Tools | Windows | Y | Y | |
Symantec | NetBackup PureDisk | Data Protection and Recovery Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y | |
TIBCO | Hawk | Performance Management Software | UNIX, Windows | Y | Y |
Enhanced Pattern Modules
RFE ref. | Product | Enhancement | SI Key Change | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
QM001663413 | Microsoft SQL Server\\ Oracle Database | Pattern updated with addition of an attribute which allows inclusion of edition information when mapping to the SI to BMC_Product CI (used by Atrium Product Catalog) - requires Atrium Discovery 8.3.00 | N | |
QM001725000 | Oracle Real Application Clusters | Pattern module significantly enhanced with improved discovery and model of Oracle RAC, as well as adding support for Oracle RAC on the Windows platform | Y | |
QM001750514 | Oracle E-Business Suite | Inter-related patterns in Oracle Application Server and Oracle E-Business Suite pattern modules updated to improve identification of Oracle E-Business Suite | N | |
QM001750543 | Apache HTTPD-based Webservers | Pattern enhanced with an improved active versioning approach for Oracle HTTP server execution | N | |
QM001752147 | Informatica PowerCenter | Pattern enhanced to add support for discovery of version 9.x of the product | N | |
QM001752601 | HP Server Automation | HP Server Automation Agent pattern enhanced with support for identification and versioning of this component on the Windows platform. | N | |
QM001752738 | Microsoft Internet Information Services | Web Server pattern that discovers IIS 6 has been enhanced so that Web Applications deployed within Web Directories and not just Virtual Directories are now discovered and modeled. Furthermore, keys of Detail nodes and SoftwareComponent nodes have MD5 hash applied to ensure they are not too long | N | |
QM001752889 | Microsoft BizTalk Server | Microsoft BizTalk Server pattern enhanced to add support for discovery of 64-bit version of BizTalk Server | N | |
QM001752975 | Symantec Enterprise Security Manager | Symantec ESM pattern module has been enhanced through addition of a pattern to identify and version Symantec ESM Connection Manager | N/A | |
QM001753492 | SAP Business Suite | SAP Business Suite pattern enhanced with an additional approach to determine the Oracle Database Server SID that forms part of the SAP system | N | |
QM001753605 | Microsoft ISA Server\\ Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway | Microsoft ISA Server and Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway patterns updated to indicate discovered edition of the product | Y | |
QM001753628 | Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation | Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server pattern updated to add support for discovery of this product when running within IIS 7 and later | N | |
QM001753812 | Java Virtual Machine | Java Virtual Machine pattern updated to have the Java VM SoftwareInstance/RuntimeEnvironment node 'name' attribute use the value of product_version rather than version in order to make the output more readable | N | |
QM001753904\\ QM001759937 | SAP Business Suite | Patterns in the SAP Business Suite pattern module have been enhanced to better support creating a model of a SAP system distributed over multiple hosts | N | |
QM001754632 | Versant Object Database | Versant Object Database pattern has been enhanced to increase the likelihood of identification of the product as well as improving extraction of the database server name | N | |
QM001754930 | Microsoft Internet Information Services | Patterns discovering IIS 5/6 and IIS 7 and later as well as IIS 6 Web Server have been updated through addition of a user configuration option to set the path to the Windows system root for cases where pattern cannot obtain it. The system root is required in order for the pattern to obtain access to key configuration files | N | |
QM001754931 | TIBCO Rendezvous | TIBCO Rendezvous pattern enhanced to improve identification of the product | N | |
QM001755315 | Vignette Portal | Vignette Portal pattern has had the trigger condition enhanced to add support for identification of the product when running within the WebLogic Application Server | N | |
QM001755506 | HP Data Protector | HP Data Protector pattern module patterns have been updated with an additional package regular expression to allow versioning of the product on the Linux platform as well | N | |
QM001755749 | Symantec VERITAS NetBackup | Symantec VERITAS NetBackup Client pattern updated with improvements in parsing of the version information obtained | N | |
QM001755837 | Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server | Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server pattern updated with an improvements in active versioning method as well as additions to the version mapping table | N | |
QM001757215 | Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Application Server | WebLogic Application Server (Windows) pattern has had its trigger condition update to support discovery of WebLogic Application Server v12c running as a service | N | |
ISS03946202 | Software Product Support Details | Support lifecycle information added for Microsoft , IBM , BMC , HP , Sybase, Oracle | N/A | |
#15931 | IBM Cognos Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Application Services Tier, Business Intelligence Server, and Cognos Content Manager patterns updated to use standardised code to search for and create relationships to related SI nodes | N | |
#15943 | Microsoft Lync | Microsoft Lync Server pattern module has been enhanced with addition of a pattern to discover the Replication Agent component of the product | N | |
#15999 | IBM Cognos BI Metrics Server | Metrics Manager Application pattern updated to use standardised code to search for and create relationships to related SI nodes | N | |
- | Oracle Business Intelligence | Patterns in Oracle Business Intelligence have been updated with an additional active versioning method | N | |
- | HP OpenView AssetCenter | HP OpenView AssetCenter Server pattern was enhanced by adding support for discovery of the product on the UNIX platform | N |
The following defects have been fixed in BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2012-Jun-1
Case No | Defect No | Details | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|
ISS03889725 | QM001747231 | Problem: Sybase ASE patterns can fail to parse port information from configuration files due to variations in how this information is entered. This can prevent extended database discovery of Sybase ASE Solution: Patterns updated to improve parsing of configuration information in order to extract port information | |
ISS03948109 | QM001752901 | Problem: On hosts where both Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 agent are installed, the current pattern will assign the same version (greater of the versions found) Solution: Original pattern module split into two to mirror the evolution of the product and resolve versioning issue | |
ISS03963209 | QM001755535 | HP Systems Insight Manager pattern module patterns have been updated with an additional package regular expression to allow versioning of the product | |
ISS03963214 | QM001755538 | HP OpenView Performance Agent pattern module patterns have been updated with an additional package regular expression to allow versioning of the product | |
ISS03964511 | QM001755856 | Problem: HP OpenView AssetCenter Database pattern can exit with an ECA engine error if the trigger process has no command-line arguments Solution: Code fix. | |
ISS03952960 | QM001755912 | Problem: Oracle E-Business Suite pattern can exit with an ECA engine error in certain rare cases related to removal of parts of the model generated by Atrium Discovery Solution: Code in that section of the pattern refactored | |
ISS03963357 | QM001756445 | Problem: Changes to the Apache HTTPD-based Web Servers pattern in TKU April 2012 have resulted in the pattern failing to obtain the version of IBM HTTP Server v7 Solution: Code fix. Regular expressions used to obtain the version revised | |
ISS03970368 | QM001757223 | Problem: Changes to the Oracle Database Server pattern made for TKU May 2012 introduced an error in the sequence the pattern uses to obtain the location of ORACLE_HOME which can lead to incorrect version of the product being set on the resulting SI Solution: Code fix. | |
- | #14948, #16197 | Common code used by extended J2EE discovery patterns (WebLogic Application Server, WebSphere Application Server, Apache Tomcat) and responsible for searching related Database SIs was refactored and will make use of default port numbers if core patterns could not obtain listening port information | N/A |
- | #15908 | Problem: IBM Lotus Connections pattern lacking code to manage removal of the SoftwareInstance in case the product is no longer detected on the scanned host Solution: Pattern updated with code to manage SI removal correctly | |
ISS03916697 | #16160 | Problem: Host node 'os_class' attribute for VMware ESX/ESXi was changed in Atrium Discovery 8.3 from 'UNIX' to 'Other' as it is a Hypervisor. This can impact patterns that trigger on instances of ESX Server (when discovered via ssh) and use the 'os_class' attribute to run specific parts of the code (typically related to versioning) Solution: Continuing on from TKU April and May, an additional set of patterns was reviewed and updated if required. Products for which patterns were updated are listed | |
- | #16161 | Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Application Server pattern improved to allow extended discovery to occur on the first scan of the host if the pattern has obtained all the relevant data, rather than often taking 2 scans before the model could be completed |