Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2020-May-2

BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2020-May-2 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 series.

This TKU 2020-TKU-May-2 re-release includes an important upgrade for AWS Schedule Scans and Microsoft SQL Server containment relationships (DRUD1-29601). Once the TKU has been applied the upgrade must be applied. There are two ways to do this.

1. Via the appliance command line:

1.1. Log into the appliance command line as the “tideway” user. For clusters, these steps must be performed on all cluster members.

1.2. Restart the “cluster” service:

  • For 11.2 and CentOS/RedHat 6 based 11.3 systems: sudo service cluster restart.
  • For CentOS/RedHat 7 based 11.3 systems: sudo systemctl restart cluster.

1.3. Perform a conditional service start: tw_service_control --start --conditional. You should see a message “Performing model upgrades”.

OR

2. Reboot the appliance. Note that simply restarting system services will NOT apply the update.


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.

Release Compatibility

TKU 2020-May-2 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 guideline if you are unsure how to download from BMC EPD site.

Release Contents

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 11.1.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 2020-May-2, 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

Installation and upgrade details:

Products


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 May 2020 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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