Technology Knowledge Update 2014-Jan-1
BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2014-Jan-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 8.3, 9.0 and 10.0 series.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2014-Jan-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 (ships with this release)
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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Contents
The release comprises components packaged as two 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 , Atrium Discovery 10.0.xx ) as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system
- 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 8.3.00 - 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-2014-01-1.xls
In this Release
New Pattern Modules
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | Hadoop | Clustering and Availability Software | UNIX | Y | Y | |
BMC | Middleware Management - Performance and Availability | Process Automation Middleware | UNIX/Windows | Y | Y | |
IBM | Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments | Transaction Processing Monitors | UNIX/Windows | Y | Y |
Enhanced Pattern Modules
RFE ref. | Product | Enhancement | SI Key Change | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
QM001804892 | Apache Tomcat | Apache Tomcat pattern enhanced to improve discovery on Microsoft Windows platform. Furthermore, file versioning approach improved slightly | N | |
QM001806214 | BMC CONTROL-M | BMC CONTROL-M/Agent pattern registry versioning enhanced through inclusion of additional registry keys. | N | |
QM001809731 | IBM Tivoli Monitoring | Patterns in IBM Tivoli Monitoring module enhanced through addition of active versioning. | N | |
QM001812140 | Apache Tomcat | Apache Tomcat pattern updated with an improvement to active versioning approach on the UNIX platforms. | N | |
QM001812568 | Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager | Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager pattern enhanced with alternate package name regex to be able to handle new versions of product. | N | |
QM001813091 | Adobe ColdFusion | Adobe ColdFusion patterns were significantly updated to add support for v10 of the product. This has necessitated some changes to the model created and an update to the SI key. | Y | |
#TKU-2048 | Microsoft Exchange Server | Microsoft Exchange Server pattern trigger improved with additional trigger condition. | N | |
#TKU-2052 | OS Support Details | OS Support Details for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x updated | N/A | |
#TKU-2070 | IBM InfoSphere Replication Server | IBM InfoSphere Replication Server pattern updated to use correct SI type for legacy versions. | N | |
- | IBM Tivoli CAM for SOA Platform | Patterns enhanced with an improved active versioning approach. | N | |
- | IBM Tivoli CAM for Transactions\\ IBM Tivoli Data Warehouse | Patterns enhanced with addtion of active versioning approach. | N | |
Atrium Discovery System patterns\\ | FunctionalComponent nodes representing CAM Functional Components are mapped to BMC_ConcreteCollection |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2014-Jan-1
Defect No | Details | Product Page |
|---|---|---|
QM001808424 | Problem: Not able to discover Microsoft Exchange Server Cluster. Exchange 2013 pattern does not identify all servers. Specifically, it does not identify the "client access" server (CAS role). Solution: Code update. Pattern has been split into two to obtain Database Availability Groups variant on installation. | |
#TKU-1507 | Problem: BMC ProactiveNet Analytics Server pattern code to create Detail nodes for each installed monitor merges information from multiple monitors with similar name into a single Detail node due to the way it parses output of the command that provides listing of installed monitors. Solution: Code fix. Parsing of the output improved. Furthermore, Detail nodes are no longer created by default as this could lead to performance degradation due to potentially a very high number of nodes being created. List of installed monitors is stored as an attribute on the SI instead. | |
#TKU-1558 | Problem: IBM Rational Software Analyzer Server pattern has a weak trigger condition. Solution: Code fix. Trigger condition improved. | |
#TKU-2025 | Problem: IBM Domino Server pattern for Windows platform should set 'install_dir' attribute on the created SI to support discovery of IBM Lotus Quickr. Solution: Code fix. | |
#TKU-2034 | Problem: Microsoft Lync Server Application Components are currently modelled as software instances but should be modelled as software components. Solution: Pattern updated. | |
#TKU-2045 | An issue with the code to create a relationship between Oracle Business Process Management SI and related software instances was resolved. | |
Problem: CMDB sync patterns that map some Atrium Discovery node attributes to Atrium CMDB CI sometimes does not set unique enough values for ADDM RE Identification Rules to identify these. This regularly ends up in Duplicated CIs problems for BMC_ComputerSystem CIs mapped from HostContainer nodes. Solution: TokenId is now populated for these CIs with unique enough values. |