25.2 (15.0) enhancements

Review the BMC Helix Discovery 25.2 enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.

BMC applies upgrades as described in the BMC Helix Upgrade policy. BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows.

25.2.01

BGP network route discovery

BMC Helix Discovery discovers IP links between network devices by using BGP IP routing information, and discovers site-to-site connectivity using ISP AS path information. It supports iBGP and eBGP. For further information, see IP Connectivity using BGP data.

A new node kind, Certificate, representing Certificates discovered on Hosts, Load Balancer Services, MF Parts, Network Devices, Software Instances, Cloud Services, Network Services, and Management Controllers.

25.2

Discover hosts by using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure bastion

BMC Helix Discovery accesses the bastion with the OCI credential, and the bastion creates a managed SSH session to Linux hosts without requiring further credentials. For more information, see Discovering hosts in OCI by using OCI bastion.

Trigger run types

A ‘trigger’ discovery run allows you to create a discovery run that executes a pattern without performing any discovery. The pattern can be a simple pattern, or one written to access a defined data source type. For more information, see Creating import triggers and Performing a discovery run.

OAuth2 authentication improvements

OAuth2 authentication using client_id and client_secret no longer requires user name and password. See Discovery restful functions for more information. The OAuth2 authentication method is a client credentials grant or user credentials grant, as described on the IETF Tools website.

User credentials grant is used if a username and password is specified in the credential or data source.
Client credentials grant does not support a username, but requires a Client ID and secret.

Technology Knowledge Update

BMC Helix Discovery 25.2 also applies the Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2025-Apr-1.

What else changed in this release

Description	Reference
Latest updates in your Development and Production instances.	Recent-updates
Nodes added, changed, or removed in BMC Helix Discovery.	Model-changes

Change of supported OS for BMC Discovery Outpost

The minimum supported version of the OS for the BMC Discovery Outpost is Windows Server 2016. Before upgrading your BMC Discovery Outposts you must upgrade any BMC Discovery Outpost hosts to Windows Server 2016 and later.