Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2018-Nov-1

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2018-Nov-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 series.

Product content updates require appliance restart

This TKU release contains product content additions. When product content is added, the appliance is restarted as part of the update. You are given the opportunity to prevent the restart, though if you do so, none of the knowledge content will be installed.

CMDB Sync mapping updates

For November TKU release the following syncmapping updates were introduced:

  • last_update_success attribute for the stack members Network Devices is now populated. (DRDC1-11545)
  • Issue when last scan date is not synchronized for Cloud Service is fixed now. (DRUD1-24425)
  • Fixed error in MF database mapping. (DRUD1-24070)
  • Company name attribute is now being discovered for the Stack Switches and Access Points. (DRUD1-24198)

For more information about the CDM mapping please visit the product documentation: Default CDM Mapping.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2018-Nov-1 is released in the following streams:

  • 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 Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2018-Nov-1, 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 System Release Notes page.

Installation and Upgrade

  • BMC Discovery 11.0 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • BMC Discovery 11.1 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • BMC Discovery 11.2 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here
  • BMC Discovery 11.3 series - Installation and upgrade instructions are provided here

Products

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 does not 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

DRDC1-12220

Updated version extraction approach.

N

DRDC1-12238

Added bind_address and port values to DB Server name to make it more unique.

N

DRDC1-12261

Fixed the issue when catalina.sh script was executed for DACS application.

N

DRDC1-11844

Introduced IBM Endpoint Manager registry versioning improvement.

N

DRDC1-11832

Improved ApacheSubversion active versioning.

N

DRDC1-11842

Updated Apache Derby log file versioning.

N

DRDC1-12190

Trigger was updated for v13 agent.

N

DRDC1-11712

Added "-e" flag to Veritas Licensing commands.

N

DRDC1-11843

Introduced BMC MyIT/SmartIT package versioning enhancement.

N

DRDC1-10560

Added support for Oracle WebLogic JMS resources.

N

DRDC1-11903

Improved Active Versioning for Sybase Replication Server.

N

DRDC1-12045

Application and domain attributes are now discovered for Tibco Adapters.
Their values are included into the SI key.
Added support for TIBCO Adapter for SAP. 

Y


Defects Resolved

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


Defect ref.

Details

Product Page

SI Key Change

DRDC1-12297

Problem: PostgreSQL extended errors if bind_address extracted from config file is "localhost".
Solution: Code fix.

N

DRDC1-12113

Problem: Red Hat Apache HTTP server being discovered as JBoss Core Services .
Solution: Code fix.

N

DRDC1-12195

Problem: Hard coded registry links in SQL Server.
Solution: Code fix.

N

DRDC1-12070

Problem: ECA RuleError on rule tpl_Kubernetes_body_3 due to: Error while executing a rule -- KeyError: 'containerID'.
Solution: Code fix.

N


Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU November 2018 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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