Technology Knowledge Update 2016-Nov-1

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2016-Nov-1 is a deliverable for BMC Atrium Discovery 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1 series.

Extended Discovery

Since October 2016 we have documented the list of "Extended Discovery" patterns here. These patterns are used for in-depth discovery and often have associated configurations which are described in the documentation. Please use the documentation to take full advantage of these Extended Discovery patterns.

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) has been enhanced and is now being shipped in the modern Microsoft Excel format of .xlsx rather than the older .xls.
From TKU August 2016 onwards, it is downloadable from Configipedia only. See below at the bottom.
The command/file matrix main documentation is accessible from the Got a Problem to Solve? page or directly from here.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2016-Nov-1 is released in the following streams:

  • Release compatible with BMC Atrium Discovery 10.x series
  • Release compatible with BMC Discovery 11.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 such entities:

  • BMC Atrium Discovery Extended Data Pack, which is a separately licensable product.
    • Hardware Reference Data - Patterns and data import CSV file that populate BMC Discovery with power and heat consumption figures for various hosts.
    • National Vulnerability Database – A pattern that populates BMC Discovery with information about the CPE ID of each product, full details here
    • Product Lifecycle - Patterns that populate BMC  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
  • BMC 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
  • BMC Discovery 11.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • BMC Discovery 11.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here

Products

Vendor

Product

Category

Platforms

Instances

Versioning

Product Page

Fujitsu

Fujitsu Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager

End-User Query, Reporting, and Analysis

Windows, Unix

Y

Y

BMC

BMC Remedy Single Sign-On

Advanced Analytics Identity and Access Management

Windows, Unix

Y

Y


Enhanced Pattern Modules for Cluster Awareness in BMC Discovery 11.x series

BMC Discovery 11.0.x  introduces a new extended cluster discovery.

Cluster Modeling approaches and Key changes:

  1. Clustering Platform  that generate a Cluster Node. In most cases the Key doesn’t change.
  2. Clustered Software.  In previous releases, the SIs were modeled running on Host nodes.  Now, if they are running on a cluster, they are modeled running on the Cluster node .That means that instances of these products that run on clusters have changed Keys. Instances that do not run on clusters do not have changed Keys.
  3. Software Performing Clustering - products that implement their own Clustering Scheme without using a Clustering Platform. In general, the SoftwareCluster is given the same Key that was previously given to the SoftwareInstance.

 More about new clustering technologies and clustering models you may find here.

 

Enhanced Pattern Modules

For details of why the SI Key Change field is important please see this documentation.

RFEs

RFE ref.

Product Page

Enhancement

SI Key Change

DRDC1-7393

Added versioning commands with LD_LIBRARY_PATH path

N

DRDC1-7215

Sun Cluster/LDOM patterns were updated

N

DRDC1-7252

CMDB Versioning updated

N

DRDC1-5625

Full product title is now used

N

DRDC1-7069

Various webMethods discovery enhancements

N

DRDC1-7350

Openstack KVM credentials processing updated

N

DRDC1-7151

Pattern now uses privileged execution for "cat" command

N

DRDC1-7112

Updated the known_versions list.

N

DRDC1-6205

Capitalization for IBM Cognos Real-time Monitoring updated

N

097035

Versioning for Puppet updated

N

DRDC1-7414

logical_database_type added for DatabaseDetail

N

DRDC1-5767

Citrix EdgeSight for XenApp,
Fujitsu ServerView Operations Manager,
IBM License Metric Tool,
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics,
IBM FileNet Fax,
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services,
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator,
Microsoft BizTalk Server,
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager,
Oracle GoldenGate Veridata,
Oracle E-Business Suite,
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Pure Internet Architecture,
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager,
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor,
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor,
VMware vCenter Server,
Actuate BIRT iServer,
Adobe LiveCycle,
CA DataMinder,
flannel,
IBM Rational Build Forge,
IBM Rational Jazz Server,
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager,
IBM Tivoli Netcool Reporter,
IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway,
IBM InfoSphere Warehouse,
IBM Lotus Sametime,
IBM Maximo Asset Management,
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center,
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager,
IBM WebSphere Business Events,
Oracle Transparent Gateways,
Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting,
Scribe Insight,
Adobe Connect,
BMC Portal,
Dynatrace Data Center Real User Monitoring,
Flowerfire Sawmill,
IBM FileNet Content Services,
IBM Forms Server - Webform Server,
IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator,
Informatica PowerCenter,
Microsoft Connected Services Framework,
Microsoft Dynamics CRM,
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server,
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager,
Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint,
SolarWinds IP Address Manager,
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor,
Sybase Replication Agent software,
Symantec Deployment Solution,
Symantec Management Platform,
BEA AquaLogic Business Process Management,
BMC PATROL Visualis Fault Manager,
Entrust GetAccess,
IBM InfoSphere Information Server,
IBM Rational Asset Manager,
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases,
IBM Lotus Quickr,
OpenText Fax Server,
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management,
Oracle Developer Suite,
Sybase Enterprise Connect Data Access,
Sybase Mirror Activator,
AirWatch Mobile Device Management,
Apache Ambari,
BMC Analytics for BSM,
BMC Decision Support for Server Automation,
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Suite,
BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization,
BMC MyIT/SmartIT,
BMC Release Lifecycle Management,
BMC Release Process Management,
Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp (FMA),
IBM Cognos Business Viewpoint,
Microsoft Lync Server,
Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Management Console,
Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console,
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

ADDM linking for Clients of Clustered Servers updated

N

DRDC1-7263

Updated discovery for MSSQL when autoclose option is enabled on the database

N

DRDC1-7093

Database discovery updated

N

 

product_synonyms and known_version updated

N

 

log messaging updated

N

DRDC1-6321

Updates for Oracle DB working with IBM HACMP

N

Defects Resolved

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

 Defect No

Details

Product Page

DRDC1-7213

Problem: Modelling updated in cases where SIs can be on clusters.
Solution: Code fix.

RDC1-4977

Problem: IBM Tivoli SIs may have incorrect types
Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-7386

Problem: Splunk pattern can cause an ECA Error as a result of linking the SI to itself
Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-7372

Problem: Kubernetes pattern can cause an ECA error when no listening_ports found
Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-5817

Problem: VMware VM pattern reports incorrect build number
Solution: Code fix.

095996

Problem: Incorrect version displayed for MS Exchange Server 2010
Solution: Code fix.

096943

Problem: Oracle RAC modelling
Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-7434

Problem: Various small fixes where needed
Solution: Code fix.

097446

Problem: Potential ECA error may occur in some cases
Solution: Code fix.

DRDC1-7449

Problem: Trigger condition needed an update
Solution: Code fix.

094912,
096820

Problem: Various fixes for Oracle Clusterware
Solution: Code fix.

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU November 2016 can be downloaded from  here.

The main command/file matrix documentation is accessible from the Got a Problem to Solve?  page or directly from here.


 

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