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What's New in Content Pack 24

This section provides information about new features and enhancements to Content Pack 24.

Updated Versions for Discovered Applications

Added support for discovering the following application versions to the existing discovery jobs:

  • Cisco UCS 3.x
  • Docker 1.1x.x
  • Docker Community Edition (CE) 17.0x
  • Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 17.03
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 12, 13
  • HPE NonStop J06.x, K06.x, L06.x
  • Libvirt 1.x, 2.x, 3.x

Discovered Operating Systems

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

  • Linux Ubuntu Server/Desktop 17

Added support for scanner scheduler for the following operating systems:

  • Apple OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 (macOS Sierra)

New and Extended Discovery

Added support for the following discoveries:

  • Cisco Prime Infrastructure Discovery: Discover Cisco Prime Infrastructure by Web Services.
  • Host Platform by Shell Discovery: Discover the platform information for a host using the Shell protocol, such as the platform vendor and cloud instance ID. Currently, it only supports Amazon EC2 instances.
  • IBM Workload Partition (WPAR) Discovery: Discover IBM WPAR topology.

  • New capabilities of the existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Discovery:

    • Added the capability for discovering Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
    • Added the following new Discovered CITs to the AWS by Web Services job: Amazon EBS, Amazon Machine Image, and Amazon S3 Bucket.
    • Added a new attribute Cloud Instance ID to Node CIT. This attribute is the instance ID for active Amazon EC2 instances in the Amazon Web Services environment and is also used for reconciliation. This attribute value can be discovered by the AWS by Web Services, Host Platform by Shell, and Host Connection by Shell jobs.
  • New capabilities of the existing SAP Solution Manager Discovery: Discover SAP Solution Manager version 7.2 or later.

  • New capabilities of the existing SMI-S Discovery: Added support for Huawei OceanStorV3, Dorado V3, and OceanStor 9000 array families in the root/huawei namespace.

For more details, see Discovery Modules.

Integrations

  • Added support for integrating the following application version to the existing integrations:

    • HPE Network Automation (NA) 10.30

  • Enhanced UCMDB-ServiceNow integration using enhanced generic adapter as follows:

    • Enabled the creation of multiple requests from UCMDB’s side and the handling of the multiple asynchronous responses from ServiceNow’s REST API. The same is valid for the population jobs.

      You can set the value of max.thread.count in the adapter.properties file to configure the number of threads to be used.

      Multi-threading support is added for global ID pushback and to fetch the sys_id from ServiceNow in Push jobs.

    • You can enable Web Services Security (WS-Security, WSS) for the push integration.
    • Improved the CI population performance.

    • The following data types are supported by the UCMDB-ServiceNow integration adapter:

      • String
      • Boolean
      • Integer
      • Float (Double)
      • DateTime

    • Added a property connector.retry.statuses in the adapter.properties file. This property lists HTTP status codes that act like the triggers for the retry mechanism to be started.

      Custom error codes can be added to the adapter.properties file if you want to do so.

    For more details, see ServiceNow Integration Using Enhanced Generic Adapter.

  • Enhanced the UCMDB-NNMi integration as follows:

    • Added the Interface NNM Internal Key attribute on the Interface CI. This attribute is populated by the Pull Topology from NNMi job.

      This attribute indicates the Interface primary key in NNMi Database joining with NNMi server IP address. By default, this attribute is invisible.

    • Added the ODB_ID and UCMDB_ID custom attributes on the Interface CI in NNMi. These attributes contain the UCMDB ID of the corresponding interface in UCMDB.

Others

  • Added a new job Oracle Topology by SQL - Service Name to connect Oracle using Oracle Service Name and discover Oracle topology by SQL.

  • Added a new setting Oracle Database Discovery Method to the Database Software Configuration Discovery Activity > Discovery Preferences page > Run Oracle Discovery option. This setting has the following parameters:

    • SID. Connects to the Oracle Database with Oracle SID.
    • Service Name. Connects to the Oracle Database with Oracle Service Name.

    After connection, the Oracle topology is discovered using the Generic DB Protocol (SQL).

  • Added a new option Impersonate currently logged in user (Windows) to the Scanner Configuration Generator wizard > Scanner Options page > Miscellaneous tab. This option defines whether to impersonate the currently logged in user. For details, see "Scanner Options Page" in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.

  • Added a new job parameter tryAllCredentials to the MSSQL Server Connection by SQL job. This parameter specifies whether to try more credentials if one DB instance is connected successfully with one credential.

    • If false, the job will store the first connected credential and stop trying other credentials.
    • If true, the job will try all credentials and store the last connected one.

  • Added the following new job parameters to the Inventory Discovery by Scanner job.

    • discoverWPAR. Specifies whether to report IBM Workload partitions (WPARs).

      Note If this parameter is enabled and WPARs are discovered, UD Full (UDF) license is required instead of UD Inventory (UDI).

    • uploadScannerToAgentPath. Specifies whether to upload scanner to the installation path of UD agent.

      Note This parameter is only for Windows and eligible when Universal Discovery Protocol is used.

  • Added the JVM CIT to the following jobs:

    • Apache Tomcat by Shell
    • JEE Glassfish by Shell
    • JEE JBoss Connections by JMX
    • JEE JBoss by JMX
    • JEE JBoss by Shell
    • JEE Weblogic by JMX
    • JEE Inactive WebSphere by Shell
    • JEE WebSphere Connections by JMX
    • JEE WebSphere by Shell or JMX
    • JEE WebSphere by Shell

  • Enhanced the following discoveries by adding a new attribute Platform Vendor to the Node CI type. This attribute indicates the host platform information.

    • Amazon Web Services Discovery
    • Azure Discovery
    • Citrix Xen Discovery
    • Host Platform by Shell Discovery
    • HP Partitioning Solution Discovery
    • Hyper-V Discovery
    • IBM LPAR and VIO Server Topology by Shell Discovery
    • LPAR Resources by EView Discovery
    • OpenStack Discovery

    • Solaris Zones Discovery

    • VMware Discovery
  • The Migrate DDMI Agent job is no longer supported starting with CP23. If you need DDMI migration, use UCMDB 10.31 and CP22 instead.
  • Scanner version: 10.33.000.252
  • Universal Discovery Agent version: 10.33.000.252
  • Inventory Discovery Knowledge version: 2017.07

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