Technology Knowledge Update 2015-Dec-1


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

 

Note

Please note that BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2015-Nov-2 was the last  deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 9.0

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-Dec-1 is released in the following streams:

  • 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 many Storage Systems. See the full list of currently supported storage devices here. Visit the Storage System Release Notes page to get details about what's new. 
    • 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 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-2015-12-1.xls

New Pattern Modules

Products

 

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

Apache

Apache Qpid

Clustering and Availability Software

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

VMware

VMware Horizon

Virtual Machine Software

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

Oracle

Oracle WebCenter Sites

Application Server Software Platforms

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

IBM

IBM WebSphere Application Server Web Server Plug-ins

Application Server Software Platforms

Windows, Unix

Y

N

Citrix

Citrix XenDesktop

Virtual User Interface Software

Windows

Y

Y

Citrix

Citrix EdgeSight for XenApp

Performance Management Software

Windows

Y

Y

Enhanced Pattern Modules

RFEs

RFE ref.

Product Page

Enhancement

SI Key Change

DRDC1-4874

Support YAML based configuration for MongoDB was added

N

QM001891049

Pattern enhancement

N

QM001887828

Added support for Application Server Web Server Plug-ins' PIPE Review: 525847

N

QM001891228

Version issue fixed

N

QM001891052

Pattern was fixed to handle all formats of the data source attribute

N

DRDC1-5127

Oracle Coherence pattern enhancements

N

DRDC1-5228

Pattern was updated to use "identify_host_with_uuid" function

N

QM001889866

RunCommand issue was fixed

N

Internal

Connection linking and candidate SI improvements.

N

QM001887985

LDAP relations were added

N

DRDC1-4926 

Fixed unprotected use of export in runCommand

N

DRDC1-4569

Added support for Apache Qupid pattern

Y

DRDC1-5078

Added support for new option - Oracle Advanced Analytics

N

Defects Resolved

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

 

Defect No

Details

Product Page

DRDC1-5034

Problem: BMC FootPrints Asset Core does not report the modern name of the product
Solution: Code fix.

ESC: 082587,

DRDC1-4728

Problem: Hosting node selection issue.
Solution: Code fix.

Configuration upgrade

In this release no patterns have the configuration block updated.

 

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