Technology Knowledge Update 2015-Jul-1

BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2015-Jul-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-Jul-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.

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-2015-07-1.xls

New Products

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

Snort

Snort

Network Intrusion Detection System

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

VMware

VMware vCloud Director

Virtual Machine Software

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

Pivotal

GemFire

Nonrelational Database Management Systems

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

Basho

Basho Riak KV

Nonrelational Database Management Systems

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

Objectivity

Objectivity/DB

Object Database Management Systems

Windows,Unix

Y

Y

Pivotal

GemFire XD

Nonrelational Database Management Systems

Windows,Unix

Y

Y

Apache

Storm

Distributed Realtime Computation System

Unix

Y

Y

Apache

Kafka

Distributed Log Service

Unix

Y

Y

NuoDB

NuoDB

Distributed Database Management System

Windows,Unix

Y

Y

Enhanced Pattern Modules

RFE ref.

Product Page

Enhancement

SI Key Change

QM001882304

The pattern triggers on the HP OpenView Performance Agent Collector Program process.

N

QM001883026

Discovery of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.

 

TKU-4138
QM001878927

The pattern triggers on active, path, and package versioning. The pattern adds parameters for Oracle database.

N

TKU-4348

The pattern creates an instance-based Software Instance with the key based on the node name, SI type, product version, and the host key.

N

QM001881667

JBoss Application Server SIs are missing their Version information.

N

QM001880999

The pattern creates enhancement for Xen server version 6.5 which is seen as virtual.

N

QM001877939

The pattern adds a new SQL method for content database list extraction and affected patterns.

N

QM001881108
 

Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation versioning.

N

QM001880003

The pattern enhances versioning of VMwareVM with use of the VMware player package.

N

QM001878422

Oracle Coherence SI pattern not collecting version info.

N

QM001864246
 

Oracle.OracleRDBMS_Options.OptionsQuery.InstalledOptions does not show enabled options

N

QM001877934

The pattern creates Oracle Entitlements Server pattern which applies only if application is installed on Tomcat.

N

 

 

Defects Resolved

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

Defect No

Details

Product Page

TKU-4029

Problem: HP Performance Insight product version is too detailed.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-4184

Problem: MQ Message Broker does not correctly link to Queue Manager.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-3962

Problem: BMC.RecoveryManager.BackupAndRecoveryPolicyManager has trigger that is too precise.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-4375
QM001882086

Problem: Netapp os_type is wrong.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-4441

Problem: Sybase ASE get_interface_path function appends sql.ini to interfaces_file_path when already present in interface_root.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-4442
QM001882884

Problem: When the db name has a space, it is being reported as two separate db's instead of one.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-4165

Problem: IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale SI can have non-unique name.
Solution: Code fix.

TKU-4362

Problem: IIS Website and IIS Web Application patterns repeatedly delete and recreate nodes.
Solution: Code fix.

QM001881657

Problem: Some MySQL Database Server SI's are missing SI Support Details containing the EOL/EOS/EOES information.

Solution: Code fix.

Esc 076730

Problem: Inadequate parsing of commands.

Solution: Better filtering of cluster name from 'haclus -list' command. Better parsing of cluster hosts from 'hasys -list' command. 'hasys -list' now run if /etc/llthosts fails to yield any cluster hosts

 

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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