Product Content TKU 2019-July-1


BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2019-Jul-1 contains the following additional product content for the BMC Discovery 11.3 and 11.2 series:

Product content updates require appliance restart

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.

Feature updates

      1. Added support for AWS cloud inventory. The following inventory patterns were introduced for TKU July release:

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
  • Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Amazon MQ
  • Amazon Redshift
  • AWS Step Functions
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon EMR
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon Glue 

In addition to these changes we've added new Discovery UI icons for the CloudResource node kind (DRUD1-26227).

2. Added  new ap-east-1 region (Hong Kong) to AWS regions map. ( DRDC1-13236)

3. Added southafricanorth and southafricawest Azure regions (South Africa North and South Africa West). (DRDC1-13237)

4. EKS service and Elasticsearch - cloud deep discovery is now supported. (DRDC1-11306, DRDC1-12900) 

5. AWS Resource ARN common function was introduced in this release. (DRDC1-13125)

 More information about Cloud Discovery can be found here.

Other defects

The following additional defects were resolved in Product Content 2019-Jul-1:

  • DRUD1-26369 - "Some OS classifier files contain invalid regexes".
  • DRDC1-13234 - "CLOUD/AZURE/API response location field issue".
  • DRUD1-26158 - "Blocked Requests report should show the failure_cause and maybe restrict_paths".
  • DRDC1-13233 - "AWS Cloud discovery should allow use of an EC2 Instance Profile".

Changes to discovery commands

No new changes were introduced in Product Content 2019-Jul-1:

Model changes

The following model changes were introduced in Product Content 2019-Jul-1:

  • CloudResource Node kind was added for TKU July 2019. (DRDC1-13194)

 

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