2.1.00 enhancements and patches

Review the PATROL for Scripting enhancements and patches for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users. For the list of issues resolved in this release, see Known-and-corrected-issues.

2.1.04

Schedule scripts to monitor Windows and LINUX profiles at specific intervals

In Windows and Linux monitor profiles, users can schedule monitoring scripts to run on specific days, on certain dates of a month, or within a defined time frame which enhances system performance. For more information, see Configuring-Windows-PowerShell-monitor-type and Configuring-LINUX-UNIX-shell-scripts-monitor-type.

2.1.03

Enable event generation for a single-value script output

Users can enable or disable event generation for single-value script outputs. When the checkbox is selected, an event is generated in BMC Helix Operations Management.

For more details about event generation, see the following resources:

Notify users of SSL certificate expiry

Users receive timely notifications before their certificates expire, allowing for seamless renewal. This feature ensures uninterrupted service and prevents any disruptions caused by expired certificates.

For more details about SSL certificate expiry, see Using sample scripts for monitoring (Linux).

Setting up the device type

Setting up the device type ensures consistent visibility of device names across all BMC Helix Operations Management instances.

For more details about setting device type, see Mapping instances to devices.

2.1.02

For information about issues corrected in this release, see Known and corrected issues.

2.1.01

For information about issues corrected in this release, see Known and corrected issues.

2.1.00 features

Support for additional operating systems

The KM supports the following UNIX-based operating systems. For more information, see System-requirements.

IBM AIX 7.x, 64-bit hardware, 64-bit kernel, 64-bit ABI
Oracle Solaris 11 U4, x86-64, SPARC
Oracle Solaris 10, x86-64, SPARC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x, x86-64, PPC64LE
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (x86-64)
Debian 10.x
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, Service Pack 2, x86-64, PPC64LE
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.x, Service Pack 5, x86-64, Intel Itanium, IBM® zSeries®, PPC64LE
Oracle Enterprise Linux 8.x x86-64
HP-UX 11i 3 (B11.31), Itanium 2

Ability to map instance name to device

The KM enables you to map an instance name to a device. For more information, see Mapping-instances-to-devices.

Ability to add attribute metadata to the script output

You can assign units to script outputs and configure them as key performance indicator (KPI). For more information, see Configuring-metadata-for-script-outputs.

Support for multiple script output instances for local monitoring

You can configure the LINUX-UNIX shell scripts and Windows PowerShell monitor types to run scripts that return multiple output instances. For more information, see Configuring-LINUX-UNIX-shell-scripts-monitor-type and Configuring-Windows-PowerShell-monitor-type.

Updates to the value range of the Timeout and Poll interval fields

The range of values allowed in the following fields is updated. For more information, see Configuring-Windows-PowerShell-monitor-type and Configuring-LINUX-UNIX-shell-scripts-monitor-type.

Field	New range	Earlier range
Timeout	1-3600 seconds	1-600 seconds
Poll interval	10-100,000 seconds	10-3600 seconds