Deprecated and dropped features and components

TrueSight Operations Management version 11.0 includes changes to the level of support for the following features and components.

Note

To ensure that you do not overlook deprecated and dropped features and components that were announced in earlier versions of the product, some of the items listed here reiterate statements from the earlier releases. To learn about what is new in this version, see 11-0-00-enhancements.

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Dropped features and components

Support for the following features or components was dropped in this or an earlier release of TrueSight Operations Management. 

Discontinued support for adapters

Effective Dec 20, 2019, the following adapters are no longer supported by BMC. However, the adapters are available in the product.
  • Adapter for HP OM
  • Adapter for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
  • Adapter for BMC TM ART


32-bit cell support for Solaris, AIX, and Linux

Original: In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, support for the 32-bit CELL on Solaris and AIX has been dropped and is no longer being shipped with the product.

Modified: In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, support for the 32-bit CELL on Solaris, AIX, and Linux has been dropped.

mswitchbit command

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, the mswitchbit command has been dropped and is no longer being shipped with the product.

BMC Impact Database Gateway (DBGW)

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, support for the BMC Impact Database Gateway has been dropped and is no longer shipped with the product.  Event Reporting capability is available through TrueSight Operations Management Reporting.

Windows Event Log Adapter (MCWELA)

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0,  support for the Windows Event Log Adapter has been dropped and is no longer shipped with the product.  Event logs can be collected with the PATROL Agent or TrueSight IT Data Analytics.

KB Migration utility

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, support for the GUI-base Knowledge Base Migration utility has been dropped and is no longer shipped with the product.  The command line interface (mmigrate) is available to migrate cells.

Admin cell (Status tab view of BEM environment)

On a fresh installation of TrueSight Infrastructure Management, the admin cell process and service is no longer created.  On an upgrade installation of TrueSight Infrastructure Management, a backup of the admin cell KB is created before the upgrade. For more  information, see Creating an Infrastructure Management admin cell. The pw CLI no longer starts, stops, or checks the status of the admin cell.

Infrastructure Management status tab – Administrator console

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, the Infrastructure Management tab in the administrator console has been dropped and is not included with the installation program.

The -i option for cell CLI commands

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, the -i option for cell CLI commands is dropped and is not included with the installation program.

The -i option returns an error when used. Update all references to the -i option.

Triage and Remediation Workflows

In TrueSight infrastructure Manager 11.0, the Triage and Remediation Workflows and the Atrium Orchestrator platform has been dropped and is no longer shipped with the product.

Support for the Triage and Remediation Workflows and the Atrium Orchestrator platform versions 7.9.01 and 8.0 is reintroduced from version 11.0, Fix Pack 2 and later. The following workflows are supported:

  • Agent Restart
  • ESX Host Down
  • Host Down

Group Tree Viewer

In TrueSight infrastructure Management 11.0, the Group Tree Viewer (Hyperbolic Tree) has been dropped and is no longer shipped with the product.  Tree views can be created via that application and/or service models.

Deprecated features and components

Support for the following features and components was deprecated in this or an earlier release of the TrueSight Operations Management solution.

BMC Impact Integration for HP-OpenView Network Node Manager

In TrueSight infrastructure Manager 11.0, support for this integration is deprecated and will not be included in the next release of the product.

BMC Adapter for HP-OpenView

In TrueSight infrastructure Manager 11.0, support for this adapter is deprecated and will not be included in the next release of the product.

SLO console

Beginning in TrueSight infrastructure Manager 11.0, the availability of this console is only available to customers upgrading from version 10.7 or earlier.

Integration with BMC Service Level Management

Beginning in TrueSight infrastructure Manager 11.0, this integration is only available to customers upgrading from version 10.7 or earlier.

Topics that describe the integration with BMC Service Level Management were removed from the integration documentation. This integration is supported for customers upgrading from earlier versions of TrueSight Infrastructure Management. To view the documentation for this integration, see Supported Infrastructure Management integrations with other products.

Business Objects

Beginning in TrueSight infrastructure Manager 11.0, SAP Business Objects is only available to customers upgrading from version 10.7 or earlier.

 

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