24.3 enhancements and patches

Update data tables by using dynamic enrichment policies

Update existing data tables from the BMC Helix Operations Management user interface by using dynamic enrichment policies. This feature gives you the flexibility to update data tables from the user interface in addition to using REST APIs.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Dynamically-enriching-events-with-external-data
• Defining-an-external-source-file-for-dynamically-enriching-events
• Dynamic-event-enrichment-actions
• Dynamic-enrichment-policy-data-table-management-endpoints-in-the-REST-API

View audit trails of monitor policies and Agent Query Tool commands

Use the BMC Helix Audit Dashboard in BMC Helix Dashboards to view audit trail details of monitor policies and Agent Query Tool commands. With this dashboard, you can conveniently view all status details about monitor policies and Agent Query Tool command responses in one place.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Defining-monitor-policies
• Viewing-and-filtering-Agents

• BMC Helix Audit Dashboard

Use event policies to enrich topology information in events

Use the AssociateEventToNode function in refinement policies to fetch topology details from BMC Helix Discovery by specifying string event slots in addition to the default topology slots for an event class. This feature gives you the flexibility to perform topology enrichment by using event policies.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Event-functions
• Example-Enrich-topology-information-by-using-event-policy
• Event-enrichment-with-topology-information

Distinguish events based on severity

The user interface for BMC Helix Operations Management has been refreshed to incorporate the new color scheme, which helps you to easily distinguish  event severity or status.