What's New in Content Pack 20

This section provides information about new features and enhancements to Content Pack 20.

Discovered Applications

Added support for discovering the following applications:

• Microsoft SharePoint 2016
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016
• VMware vCloud Director 5.5, and 5.6

Discovered Operating Systems

Added support for discovery and inventory (including agent support) for the following operating systems:

• IBM AIX 7.2

• Ubuntu Server/Desktop 16

New Discoveries

Added support for the following discoveries:

• Microsoft Azure Discovery

  Note: This discovery requires UCMDB 10.22 or later.
• Cloud Foundry Discovery
• Docker Swarm Discovery

• Huawei Storage Discovery and HDS Storage Discovery

  Added support for the new namespace Huawei root/huawei and Hitachi root/smis/current under the SMI-S discovery jobs.

For more details, see Discovery Modules.

Integrations

• Added BMC Remedyforce Integration. This integration consists of two independent, bi-directional parts: Data Push into BMC Remedyforce and Population from BMC Remedyforce.

• Added a new parameter processWithBinaryMode to the Import from CSV File job.

  This parameter indicates whether to copy the target CSV file to Data Flow Probe and decode it using the value of the fileEncoding parameter. The default value of the processWithBinaryMode parameter is false. Setting processWithBinaryMode to true only when the fileEncoding parameter in the Import from CSV File job does not work properly.

Others

• Added logic to make sure that PrimaryDNSName is set accurately by the DNS Resolver job. For details, see PrimaryDNSName Logic.

• The Inventory Discovery by Scanner job discovers Disk Device CIs with their serial numbers.

  Note: This requires UCMDB 10.22 CUP2 or later.

• Enhanced the Inventory Discovery by Scanner job to support the discovery of Network Cards as follows:

  • Added a new CIT Network Adapter.
  • Added a new Realization relationship between Network Adapter and Interface.
  • Added a new Usage relationship between Network Adapter and Windows Device Driver.
  Note: This requires UCMDB 10.22 CUP2 or later.

• Enhanced the SAP Web Dispatcher plug-in in the Host Resources by Shell and Host Applications by Shell jobs as follows:

  • Added relationship between SAP System and SAP Web Dispatcher.
  • Added relationship between HANA instance and SAP Web Dispatcher.
  • Corrected the name and display label of the SAP Web Dispatcher CI.
  Note: New SAP Web Dispatcher CIs cannot be merged with old ones discovered by the previous Content Pack. Old CIs will be deleted by aging.

• The OS Architecture attribute can be discovered by the Host Connection by Shell, Inventory Discovery by Scanner, and Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment jobs on Apple OS X, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Oracle Solaris, and Windows.

  Note: This requires UCMDB 10.22 CUP2 or later.

• Added the following two new jobs to do the WebSeal discovery triggering on PolicyServer:

  • Webseal Policy Server Connection by Shell
  • Webseal Policy Server Topology by Shell

  These two new jobs are supposed to be used as the complete replacement for the Webseal Connection by Shell and Webseal Topology by Shell jobs. That is, if these two new jobs are run, no need to run the Webseal Connection by Shell and Webseal Topology by Shell jobs.

  The reasons to use these two new jobs are as follows:

  • These two jobs can retrieve all the WebSeal related configurations across the whole customers' environment.
  • The performance and decrease of the load to the Policy Server itself.

• Added a new parameter WebSealShellTimeout to the Webseal Policy Server Topology by Shell and Webseal Topology by Shell jobs. This parameter indicates the WebSeal pdadmin tool timeout. This value overrides the default protocol timeout settings. The default value of this parameter is 15000.

• Enhanced Docker Discovery and Docker Swarm as follows:

  • Added a new CI type Docker Image Template.
  • Added a new Resource relationship between Docker Image Template and Docker Image.
  • Added new attributes Docker Host, Docker Labels, and Docker Logging Driver to the Docker Daemon CI.
  • Added new attributes Docker Entry Points, Docker Image Commands, Docker Image Labels, Docker Image Ports, and Docker Image Volumes to the Docker Image CI.
  • Added new attributes Docker Container Commands, Docker Container Labels, Docker Container Logging Driver, Docker Container Memory Limit, Docker Container Restart Max Count, and Docker Container Restart Policy to the Docker Container CI.
• Added a new CI type IBM CMM that represents IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module. This CI type can be reported by the IBM PureFlex Topology by Shell job.

• For IBM FSM CI,

  • Added the FSM Chassis Slot Number attribute to represent in which slot the particular hardware is present.
  • Added the FSM Role attribute that can be Active or Backup depending on the configuration.
• Added the Containment relationship between Chassis and Switch for the IBM PureFlex Topology by Shell job.

• Enhanced VMware discovery jobs by adding the following attributes:

  • HyperThreading on CPU CI. If true, the hyper threading is Active on CPU.

  • Power State on VMWare ESX Server CI. The state of the physical host (as indicated by the host icon and returned by the PowerState PowerCLI function).

  • Connection State on VMWare ESX Server CI. The state of the connection between the physical host and vCenter Server.

  • Management IP Address on VMware Host Resource CI. The IP address of the eth0 on virtual machine as known by vCenter through VMware Tools (when installed on the guest OS).

• Added a new topic How to Discover IP Addresses in Universal Discovery.
• Scanner version: 10.22.000.285
• Universal Discovery Agent version: 10.22.000.285