Technology Knowledge Update 2015-Aug-1


BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2015-Aug-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 9.0, 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 series.

Note

In TKU March 2015, privileged execution configuration using the pattern configuration files is deprecated. It is recommended to use the BMC Atrium Discovery platform configuration instead. Previous TKU releases introduced some important changes to the CMDB Sync mapping and Oracle Database modeling.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2015-Aug-1 is released in the following streams:

  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 9.x series
  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 10.x 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.

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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.
  • BMC Atrium Discovery for Storage, which is a separately licensable product.
    • Storage Systems: Patterns that model various Storage Systems. See the full list of supported storage devices here. Note that there is no new content delivered in this release.
    • Improvements on existing Storage patterns. See what we have fixed or improved in existing patterns in the Storage Systems Release Notes page.  

Installation and Upgrade

  • Atrium Discovery 9.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 10.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 10.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • Atrium Discovery 10.2 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-2015-08-1.xls

New Products

 

 

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

Apache

Drill

SQL query engine

Unix

Y

Y

Deep IS

Deep Engine

Information processing system

Unix

Y

Y

BMC

TrueSight Operations Management 

Server

 

Y

Y

Elastic

Elasticsearch

Search and Discovery

Unix

Y

Y

Terracotta

Terracotta Universal Messaging

Instant Communication Applications

Unix, Windows

Y

Y

Clustrix

Clustrix DB

Relational Database Management Systems

Unix

Y

Y

MarkLogic

MarkLogic

Nonrelational Database Management System

Unix, Windows

Y

Y

TIBCO

TIBCO Master Data Management

Data Integration and Access Software

Unix

Y

Y

 

Enhanced Pattern Modules

 

RFE ref.

Product Page

Enhancement

SI Key Change

QM001884577

WebLogic BEA_HOME extraction issue

N

QM001884573

RedHat.JBoss.ApplicationServer pattern is not assigning edition correctly

N

QM001883461

SymantecNetBackupPureDisk.tpl package versionning does not work in certain cases

N

QM001885030

The MySQL_AB.MySQL_RDBMS.DatabaseServer pattern isn't discovering some running instances of MySQL

N

TKU-4462

Apache Kafka in clustered mode

N

TKU-4640

Possible incorrect model for BMC Control-M 

N

QM001883595

Detect the version of JBoss Application Server SI

N

QM001884735

TKU enhancement request of pattern CitrixXenDomain in module Citrix.XenVM

N

QM001884848

ECA Error: Sybase.SybaseASE_Extended.DatabasesAndTables loopback interface in bind_address issue

N

 

 

 

Defects Resolved

The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.

Defect No

Details

Product Page

QM001884569

Problem: Nagios NRPE Agent is triggering on the Windows platform
Solution: Code fix. 

QM001885210

Problem: Version number for Microsoft Systems Management Server Site Server cannot be extracted
Solution: Code fix .

QM001884871

Problem : Incorrect relationship creation in HP Diagnostics pattern
Solution: Code fix. 

QM001884046

Problem: Extended MS SQL Database Discovery Failing. The pattern was updated with edition extraction for version 2014 and reference tables
Solution: Code fix. 

QM001883379

Problem: Too restrictive trigger in Docker
Solution: Code fix. 

QM001883312

Problem: Updated the pattern of Oracle Clusterware
Solution: Code fix. 

 

 

Configuration upgrade

In this release the following patterns have the configuration block updated:

  • The list is under construction.

Updating to this TKU will reset any custom configuration for these products to the default values.

 

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