Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2019-Apr-1

Release Compatibility
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Contents
Installation and Upgrade
Products
Enhanced Pattern Modules for Cluster Awareness in BMC Discovery 11.x series
Enhanced Pattern Modules
RFEs
Defects Resolved
Command/File Matrix

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2019-Apr-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 series.

Additional pattern updates

More patterns than usual have been updated in this months TKU to accommodate a change in the next patch release which will be announced shortly. Full details will accompany the patches.

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.

Cisco UCS discovery update

Cisco UCS are modeled as HostContainer in Discovery and exported as BMC_ComputerSystem in CMDB. Their names were not unique which was causing some trouble in the CMDB. Now to prevent the issue Serial Number value is used in the name attribute.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2019-Apr-1 is released in the following streams:

Release compatible with BMC Discovery 11.x series

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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.

The release comprises components packaged as such entities:

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update
- Core - Patterns that model various software products
- Extended Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases
- Middleware discovery - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain J2EE Application Servers and Web servers
- Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files, Printer definition files and SNMP managed devices definition files
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions BMC Discovery 11.0.xx, BMC Discovery 11.1.xx, BMC Discovery 11.2.xx and BMC Discovery 11.3.xx as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system.

BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2019-Apr-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:

Clustering Platform that generate a Cluster Node. In most cases the Key does not change.
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.
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

Defects Resolved

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

Command/File Matrix

The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU April 2019 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.