Technology Knowledge Update 2016-Jan-1


BMC Atrium Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2016-Jan-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 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 2016-Jan-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.

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.
  • 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-2016-01-1.xls

New Pattern Modules

Products

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

Fujitsu

Fujitsu ServerView Operations Manager

Performance Management Software

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

McAfee

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention

Secure Content and Threat Management

Windows

Y

Y

SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds IP Address Manager

Network Management Software

Windows

Y

Y

SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager

Performance Management Software

Windows

Y

Y

SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Performance Management Software

Windows

Y

Y

Hypertable

Hypertable

Nonrelational Database Management Systems

Unix

Y

Y

IBM

IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager

Secure Content and Threat Management

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

BMC

BMC HR Case Management

Business Process Management

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

Talend

TalenD Studio

Advanced Analytics Software

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Web Help Desk

Data Access, Analysis, and Delivery Software

Windows

Y

Y

Enhanced Pattern Modules

RFEs

RFE ref.

Product Page

Enhancement

SI Key Change

DRDC1-5374

Various McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator enhancements 

N

DRDC1-5059

Updated db relationship

N

DRDC1-5061

MicrosoftSystemCenterVirtualMachineManager.tplpre should have a management relationship

N

DRDC1-5051

Peer to Peer relationship should be replaced by Dependency

N

DRDC1-5364, DRDC1-5382, DRDC1-5163 

Various fixes for AR System pattern

N

 DRDC1-5360 

Citrix XenDesktop pattern enhancements

N

QM001891672

Oracle ASM on windows support

Y

QM001893276

Added PRIV_CAT option

N

QM001887985,

 DRDC1-4897

IBM WebSeal pattern enhancement. Junctions are now modelled.

Y

QM001891840

Resolved triggering issue

Y

DRDC1-5103

Improvements in obtaining license information

N

DRDC1-5427

Added patch and build information

N

Defects Resolved

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

 

Defect No

Details

Product Page

DRDC1-5414

Problem: Issues discovering IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-5394 

Problem: pattern module Automic.OneAutomation from TKU-2015-09-1-ADDM-10.1+ is not finding product_version 

Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-5001

Problem: SI type may not always reflect correct product name

Solution: Added support for IBM PowerHA and IBM PowerHA SystemMirror

DRDC1-4432 

Problem:  Apache package versioning on Solaris can report wrong version

Solution: Code fix.

Esc 084504

Problem: Issues with 'cemutlo -n' command output parsing

Solution: Code fix.

Configuration upgrade

In this release no patterns have the configuration block updated.

 

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