Technology Knowledge Update 2014-Apr-1

BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2014-Apr-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 8.3, 9.0 and 10.0series.

The April 2014 TKU includes changes to the CMDB Sync mapping (introduced between TKU Jan 2014 and TKU Mar 2014)

  • When you synchronize with the CMDB the first time, the BMC_ComputerSystem CIs mapped from partition Host nodes are updated and their PartitionIds are set.
  • During data synchronization to the CMDB, FunctionalComponent nodes representing CAM Functional Components are mapped to BMC_ConcreteCollection CIs.
  • When you synchronize with the CMDB the first time, the BMC_ComputerSystem CIs mapped from HostContainer nodes are updated and their TokenIds are set.
  • When you synchronize with the CMDB the first time, all BMC_ApplicationService CIs are updated and their TokenIds are set.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2014-Apr-1 is released in three streams:

  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 8.3 series
  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 9.0 series
  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 10.0 series

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 components packaged as two entities:

  • BMC Atrium Discovery Extended Data Pack, which is a separately licensable product.
    • 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.

Installation and Upgrade

  • Atrium Discovery 8.3 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 9.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 10.0 series - 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-2014-04-1.xls

New Pattern Modules

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

BMC

Portal

Performance Management Software

Windows

Y

Y

IBM

Informix MaxConnect

Data Integration and Access Software

UNIX

Y

Y

IBM

WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

Enterprise Service Bus and Connectivity Middleware

UNIX/Windows

Y

Y

MariaDB

MariaDB Server

Relational Database Management Systems

UNIX/Windows

Y

Y

Microsoft

Office Web Apps Server

Authoring and Publishing Software

Windows

Y

Y

Percona

Percona Server

Relational Database Management Systems

UNIX/Windows

Y

Y

 

Enhanced Pattern Modules

RFE ref.

Product

Enhancement

SI Key Change

Product Page

QM001817740

BMC Performance Manager Portal

Product identification further enhanced through an additional pattern which uses information obtained from the new BMC Portal product pattern.

N

QM001820826

HP Business Process Monitor

Pattern updated with additional registry path and package name for use in versioning

N

QM001822093

IBM InfoSphere DataStage

File versioning method improved

N

QM001822455

Oracle Real Application Clusters

Model of Oracle Real Application Clusters enhanced based on customer feedback. This has necessitated SI key change in Oracle Real Application Clusters pattern.

Y

QM001822814

Attachmate Reflection for Secure IT

SSHServer pattern enhanced through improvement of package versioning and addition of file versioning on the Windows platform

N

QM001823340 / QM001823695

Software Support Details

Support Details for various Quest products as well as Oracle WebLogic Server updated

N/A

QM001823477

Red Hat KVM

Patterns updated to improve identification of Red Hat KVM deployments

N

QM001823551

Apache Derby RDBMS

Pattern trigger improved to decrease the chance of false positives

N

QM001823559

Symantec Backup Exec

Version mapping table in the pattern updated to add support for correctly setting the marketing version of latest releases

N

QM001823726

IBM Business Process Manager

Pattern updated to add support for both older version of the product (IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition Process Server) and the current versions of the product. Model slightly updated.

Y

QM001823904

Apache Tomcat

Parsing of JDBC connection information when the JDBC resource is Oracle RDBMS improved (Apache Tomcat extended discovery)

N

QM001824036

Sterling Commerce Connect Direct

Server pattern enhanced on Windows platform through addition of a method to obtain the server node name and therefore make the model more accurate.

Y

QM001824086

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal

Product discovery improved through enhancement to false positive checking

N

QM001824257

OS Support Details

OS Support Details for VMware ESXi updated

N/A

QM001824451

IBM WebSphere Application Server \\/ \\IBM WebSphere Portal Server

The order in which server, cell and node name are extracted from process arguments reversed based on customer feedback

N

#TKU-1956

Oracle Data Integrator

The Oracle Data Integrator Runtime Agent pattern enhanced with code to create a relationship from the Runtime Agent SI to the related database server SI

N

#TKU-2196

BMC CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager

BMC CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager Server and Configuration Agent pattern use an improved method to obtain the installation directory path

N

 

 

Defects Resolved

The following defects have been fixed in BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2014-Apr-1

 

Defect No

Details

Product Page

QM001815276

Problem: BMC Atrium Discovery pattern fails to correctly extract information in a scanner / consolidator setup. Solution: Code fix. Certain information will only be available with BMC Atrium Discovery 9.0 SP3

QM001822694

Problem: Build number may contain end of line characters Solution: Code fix. Improved parsing of version information

QM001822936

Problem: Sybase ASE Database Server pattern can incorrectly extract the install path, preventing extended Sybase ASE discovery pattern from working Solution: Code fix, improved installation path extraction.

QM001823211 / QM001823273

Problem: Parsing of configuration files by the Apache Web Server extended discovery pattern can fail leading to information about websites not being collected Solution: Code fix - improved parsing of configuration files

QM001823583

Problem: Pattern in the Oracle VM VirtualBox module that creates a relationship from the SI to the virtual host can exit with an ECA engine error. Solution: Code fix.

QM001823647

Problem: Pattern that creates an Aggregated Software Instance in the BMC TM ART module has an incorrect key leading to it collecting SIs accross hosts

Solution: SI key updated to resolve the issue.

QM001823880

Problem: BMC_MFSoftwareServer/BMC_SoftwareServer.ManufacturerName is not set in case of Mainframe. ManufacturerName is important for normalization in CMDB. The publisher information seems to be consistently and correctly set in DiscoveredSoftware.vendor and the mainframe pattern sets this value to SoftwareInstance.publisher. The syncmapping pattern should map SoftwareInstance.publisher to BMC_MFSoftwareServer/BMC_SoftwareServer.ManufacturerName. Solution: Sync mapping updated

QM001824101

Problem: IBM WebSphere Process Server can incorrectly identify the product as present on hosts where it is not installed. Solution: Code fix - false positive checking improved.

QM001824281

Problem: Oracle Clusterware can include end of line character in the cluster ID information due to incorrect parsing of the data Solution: Code fix. Parsing of cluster ID improved.

QM001824057

Problem: BladeLogic pattern was unable to create SI's for all of customer's BladeLogic Servers Solution: Code fix. Checked condition was changed to allow new kind of BladeLogic setup.

#TKU-2185

The order in which the containment relationship is created was corrected.

#TKU-2189

Problem: Microsoft SQL Server pattern can exit with an ECA egine error when extracting port information from the Windows registry Solution: Code fix.

#TKU-2190

Problem: IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS patterns can in certain cases exit with an ECA engine error. Solution: Code fix.

#TKU-2191

Problem: Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting pattern can exit with an ECA engine error in certain circumstances. Solution: Code fix.

#TKU-2192

Problem: Adobe JRun pattern can in certain cases extract an incorrect version using path versioning method Solution: Improved path versioning regular expression.

 

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