What's New in CMS 11.0

• ASM supports RDS deployed in AWS

  ASM now supports Relational Database Service (RDS) deployed in Amazon Web Services (AWS). A new job AWS RDS Tunnel is introduced to correctly discover RDS database in AWS, allowing you to capture service models more accurately in AWS.

• Updated ASM configuration signature to support some special format in JDBC connection strings for JBoss server.
• ASM can read and parse the ports in the same line with the delimiter "," (comma) from portNumberToPortName.xml.
• ASM can find the concrete site name according to the host name of entry point URL when there are multiple services deployed on the same IIS server with the same listening port but different URLs.
• ASM can resolve the SiteMinder configuration file to report SiteMinder policy servers.
• ASM can discover web servers balanced by Varnish cache proxy by parsing the Varnish configuration files.

In version 11.0, the UCMDB Browser version is aligned with UCMDB and UD.

• New modules in the UCMDB Browser with capabilities that were previously provided using the UCMDB admin UI

  With improved user experience and ease-of-use, and as the new web-based UCMDB UI, new modules in the UCMDB Browser provide capabilities that were previously available through the UCMDB admin UI. In addition to the four new UI modules already delivered and 3 existing modules, the UCMDB Browser further simplifies administrative and integration management:

  • The new Resource Manager module enables you to search for and graphically consume various resources in one place
  • The new Integration Studio module allows you to manage UCMDB integration points more easily and “at-a-glance”
  • New map view with comprehensive CI and CI topology browsing capabilities, and in-map navigation

  From the UCMDB Modules menu icon (), you can now easily access the administrative and integration management features through the out-of-the-box modules:

  Module	Description
  UCMDB Home	Opens the UCMDB Home landing page, which allows you to add different types of widgets to the landing page.
  Configuration Item Search	Based on the existing Search module from the UCMDB Browser, the search capability is enhanced and extended.
  Integration Studio	Opens the new Integration Studio module, which enables you to manage your UCMDB integration points and connect and share information with external repositories, such as other UCMDB, IT Performance Suite products, or third-party products.
  LDAP Manager	Opens the LDAP Manager module, which enables you to associate Universal CMDB groups with LDAP groups.
  Package Manager	Opens the Package Manager module, which enables you to easily manage the capabilities of your system based on the packages you deploy.
  Probe Dashboard	Opens the Probe Dashboard module. It retrieves and displays real-time information about data flow probes and workflow/discovery jobs in a centralized view, allowing you to easily view all probes and jobs, and also drill down to probe and job details.
  Reports	The existing Reports module from the legacy UCMDB Browser.
  Resource Manager	Opens the new unified Resource Manager module, which enables you to quickly search and consume various UCMDB resources in one place.
  Service Modeling	The existing Service Modeling module from the UCMDB Browser.
  Smart Software Analytics	The Smart Software Analytics module relies on data analytics to analyze large amount of scan files and suggest new software signatures, that can be used to recognize installed software. It automatically teaches unrecognized software by intelligently using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning technology. Smart Software Analytics provides you with an enhanced software recognition ratio that requires less manual effort.
  UCMDB Browser	Allows you to access UCMDB Browser in the legacy style.

• Enhanced and expanded search capability

  The new top search bar enables you to quickly locate different types of resources. You can search from the following categories:

  • Configuration Item. Opens the search results directly in the UCMDB Browser.
  • Queries and Models. Opens the search results directly in the Resource Manager module.
  • Views and Reports. Opens the search results in the Resource Manager module or in Topology Map.

• The new license report is accessible from the UCMDB Browser

  You can easily access the new UCMDB license report from the new UCMDB Browser (Help > About > LICENSE).

• Other general improvements to UCMDB Browser

Administration and Supportability

• Enhanced password policy by unifying the special or symbol characters available for passwords

  Unified the special or symbol characters part in different password policies, so that only one set of special or symbol characters are allowed for all passwords you enter during the installation of UCMDB server or Data Flow Probe: :/._+-[]

  This change applies to passwords for master key, keystore, truststore, admin, sysadmin, and UISysadmin from the UCMDB server side, and PostgreSQL Probe account, PostgreSQL root account, administrator, user account used for uploading scan files, and so on from the probe side.

  If an invalid password is provided, an error message will indicate clearly which policy rules are broken.

• Added support for Oracle Container Database (CDB) for hosting the UCMDB database

  This enables UCMDB server to work on Oracle Container Database (CDB). For details, see How to Enable UCMDB to Work on Oracle Container Database (CDB).

• Added support for SAML authentication on UCMDB UI

  Using SAML Authentication, UCMDB allows users to access the UCMDB UI based on the authentication assertion received from the Identity Provider (IdP). It passes the authentication responsibility to IdP and the users automatically log in to the UCMDB UI when a successful response is received from IdP.

  Note UCMDB Browser does not support SAML authentication in this release.

Enhancements to REST APIs

• Added support for root context. For details, see Configuration.

• Added support for pagination in REST APIs in UCMDB

• Introduced a new REST API to provide information about availability of REST API services. See Availability Information.

Data push enhancements

• Enhanced the Cmdb10xAdapter adapter by adding a new adapter setting allow.chunk.size.over.limit with the default value true (UCMDB UI > Data Flow Management > Adapter Manager > Cmdb10xAdapter > Edit Adapter Source). This is useful if the chunk size after the split is larger than the data push chunk size setting. It will send the data even though the limit is breached, because cases happen that a component from a TQL query result cannot be split into a chunk smaller than the push chunk size setting, and then the data push operation will try to send it even though the size is larger.

• Added support for enabling delta data push based on TQL query layout with the new adapter setting push.changes.based.on.attributes.

Enhancements to LDAP

You can disable the use of the REFERRALS property in LDAP bind by using a new global setting settings.ldap.use.referrals.

Other enhancements

• You an disable saving history events to history tables for specific object CI types by adding the new CI type qualifier CIT_NOT_TRACKED_FOR_HISTORY to the desired CITs. For details, see How to Disable History for Specific Object CITs in the UCMDB online help.

Extended Support Matrix Coverage

• Operating Systems

  • Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4 for both UCMDB server and Data Flow Probe
  • Added support for Oracle Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Compatible Kernel v7.4 for both UCMDB server and Data Flow Probe
  • Added support for Oracle Enterprise Linux with Oracle Unbreakable Kernel v7.4 for both UCMDB server and Data Flow Probe
  • Added support for CentOS 7.2 and 7.3 for both UCMDB server and Data Flow Probe
  • Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.3 for both UCMDB server and Data Flow Probe

• Database

  • Added support for Microsoft SQL Server version 2017 for UCMDB server and UCMDB Integration Service

• Virtualization

  • Added support for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 for both UCMDB server and Data Flow Probe

• Application Server

  • Updated Apache Tomcat version to 8.5.23

• Plug-in

  • Added support for IBM Systems Asset Management (ISAM) version 8 as single sign-on plugin for web servers for UCMDB UI and UCMDB Browser

• High-Availability Product

  • Added support for F5 BIG-IP version 13.x load balancer

• UCMDB Browser

  • Added IBM WebSeal as a Single Sign On product
  • Updated the JBoss from version 7.0 to Wildfly version 11
  • Updated Apache Tomcat version to 8.5.23
  • Updated the UCMDB Supported Version to 11.0
  • Updated the Minimal UCMDB Server Version to 11.0
  • Added new supported modules

• Removed support for the following

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP2
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP1

New Universal Discovery Licensing Model

The Universal Discovery Licensing is improved and adjusted to follow the unit-based licensing model, which includes the following benefits:

• Increased licensing flexibility to cover both UD Full and UD Inventory.
• Extended license coverage to cover servers, workstations, containers, network devices, and storage devices.

• Alignment with ITOM licensing practices to avoid licensing UD Full and UD Inventory as separate products.

Added support for installing and running Data Flow Probe on Linux using non-root privileges

It is now possible to install and run Data Flow Probe and probe database on Linux using a non-root user account for integration purpose. This capability is applicable to union mode regular Data Flow Probe. After the probe installation is complete, it requires manual registration of probe service with root account privileges. With non-root user account, you can run the probes installed using the non-root user account only.

For detailed instructions about how to install a probe using a non-root user account, see the "Data Flow Probe - Linux Installation" section in the interactive Deployment Guide.

Other enhancements

• Added possibility for disabling the Call Home feature from Data Flow Probe

Discovered Operating Systems

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

• Apple macOS 10.13 High Sierra

New and Extended Discovery

Added support for the following discoveries:

• Agent Driven Inventory Discovery: Easily discover devices behind VPN or inside private network and moving devices, simplify the inventory discovery work flow, and improve the performance and the discovery capacity of Data Flow Probe.

• Google Cloud Discovery: Discover Google Cloud Platform components using RESTful APIs, such as Google Cloud disks, images, projects, service accounts, snapshots, virtual machine configurations, and their relationships.
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Discovery: Discovers the Hyper-V topology of hosts managed by SCVMM by connecting to SCVMM.
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) Discovery: Discovers data from VMware vCenter servers that vROps connects to manage the virtualized VMware environment.

• New capabilities of the existing Amazon Web Services Discovery:

  • Added the capability for discovering Cloud​Formation and Virtual Private Cloud.
  • Added a new CI type AWS User to represent the user and link this CI to the old Amazon Account CI.
  • Added a new parameter discoverInstalledSoftware to the AWS by Web Services job. This parameter indicates whether to discover installed software on EC2 instances from AWS Systems Manager. (Default: true)
• New capabilities of the existing Microsoft Azure Discovery: Discover Azure Storage services, Virtual Network and Subnet.
• New capabilities of the existing MySQL Discovery: Discover MySQL database and MariaDB instances including database tables and database users through Generic DB Protocol (SQL).
• New capabilities of the existing SMI-S Discovery: Discover Huawei OceanStor V5.

Updated Versions for Discovered Applications

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

• Microsoft SQL Server 2017
• Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) 1.6.x

Universal Discovery Inventory

• Added a new parameter abortOnAgentDrivenFlowDetected to the Inventory Discovery by Scanner job.

  Setting this parameter to false enables you to run the job on the Agent with Agent driven flow enabled. (Default: true)

• USB devices can now be correctly discovered by the Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment and Inventory Discovery by Scanner jobs.

Universal Discovery Agent

Added new parameters to the Install UD Agent and Update UD Agent jobs:

• ADIScanPostponeCpuThreshold
• ADIScanPostponeMemoryThreshold
• AllowPrePostScriptForAgentDrivenFlow
• EnableAgentDrivenFlow
• allowOverwriteProbeUrlNames
• updateProbeUrl

Integrations

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

  • HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 7.6
  • Network Automation (NA) 10.40
  • Micro Focus Network Node Manager (NNMi) 10.40

• Micro Focus Asset Manager Integration using AM Generic Adapter 1.04 is now being delivered as part of the content pack

• UI related changes

  • Changed the HP Software Products adapter category to HP Software Products / Micro Focus Products.

  • Moved HPE OneView and HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) integration adapters to the Third Party Products category.

  • Renamed Service Anywhere Push Adapter to SMA-X Push Adapter.

• Some integration adapters are deprecated. For details, see the Release Notes > Deprecations section in the CP26 Help.

• Enhanced Micro Focus Network Automation (NA) integration to pull the Device Groups or Dynamic Groups and the relationship with devices from NA to UCMDB.

Others

• Added Oracle LMS 1.31.1

  Important If you use earlier versions of Oracle LMS, make sure that you upgrade it to version 1.31.1 to be compliant with Oracle audit guidelines.

• Added a new attribute nt_ad_domain_name on nt CI to differentiate AD domain and DNS domain on Windows platform.

• Added a new parameter trustAllSSLCertificates to the JEE WebSphere Connections by JMX and JEE WebSphere by Shell or JMX jobs.

• Added a new job parameter discoverTnsName to the JEE JBoss by Shell job. This parameter indicates whether to discover Oracle TNS name on the JBoss server. (Default: true)
• Enhanced the Host Applications by Shell and MySQL by Shell jobs to discover the product name, version, vendor about MySQL and MariaDB.
• Scanner version: 11.00.000.405
• Universal Discovery Agent version: 11.00.000.405
• Inventory Discovery Knowledge version: 2018.01

For more information, see the Content Pack 26.00 documentation.

Discovered Operating Systems

• Added support for discovery and inventory (including agent support) for Linux Ubuntu Server/Desktop 17
• Added support for scanner scheduler for Apple OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 (macOS Sierra)

New and Extended Discovery

Added support for the following discoveries:

• Red Hat Virtualization Discovery: Discover Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) topology, such as RHEVM Cluster, RHEVM Datacenter, RHEVM Network, RHEVM Resource Pool, RHEVM VNIC Profile, RHEVM Volume, Red Hat Virtualization, virtualization hosts, hypervisors, and relationships between virtual machines and hypervisors, using REST APIs.
• Storage Devices by SNMP Discovery: Discover EMC Isilon Filers and Data Domain storage systems.

• New capabilities of the existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Discovery: Discover Amazon Auto Scaling Groups.

• New capabilities of the existing Firewall Discovery: Discover Juniper firewalls including virtual firewalls through SSH Protocol with the new job Firewall Topology by Shell job.

Updated Versions for Discovered Applications

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

• Oracle Database 12c R2
• Red Hat WildFly (formerly JBoss AS) 11.x

Universal Discovery Inventory

• Inventory Scanner can now discover Solaris Zone topology and Solaris LDOM topology with the discoverLDOM parameter added to the Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment and Inventory Discovery by Scanner jobs.

• The Inventory Discovery by Scanner job can now report more CPU related attributes about LPAR.

Integrations

• Added a mapping file sample about using the Reference link type for the ServiceNow Enhanced Generic Adapter in "Sample Integration Population Query" in the UCMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Help.

Others

• Improved discovery of MySQL and MariaDB databases using Shell ,to capture name and version.
• Added support to disable the Call Home events when deploying UD Agent. For details, see "How to Disable Call Home" in the UCMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Help.
• Added the JVM CIT to the JEE Weblogic by Shell job.
• Scanner version: 10.33.000.330
• Universal Discovery Agent version: 10.33.000.330
• Inventory Discovery Knowledge version: 2017.10

For more information, see the Content Pack 25.00 documentation.

Documentation enhancements

Enhanced the documentation, including adding the following topics:

• How to deploy Solr HA cluster based on Zookeeper
• How to set up UCMDB server and CMS UI environment with F5 BIG-IP load balancer and WebSEAL reserve proxy
• How to Enable UCMDB Support for Microsoft Azure
• How to Configure Custom CI Types or CI Attributes for Enhanced Search

• Enhanced the Hybrid User Management with Multiple User Repositories topic by adding information about how to use the changeUCMDBUserRepositoryPriority JMX method

Software Information Portal

Online documentation for current and previous releases of CMS product (UCMDB, UD Content Pack, and UCMDB Browser) are now available on the Micro Focus Software Information Portal.

To access CMS documentation:

1. Go to Software Information Portal.
2. Click Documentation A-Z.

3. Scroll down to the Online Documentation by Product Name section and click letter U.

4. Click a product version for UCMDB, UCMDB Browser, or UD Content Pack to access the online help for the product.

Content Pack Specific Class Model Documentation

Starting with Content Pack 25, a detailed UCMDB Class Model specific to the Content Pack version is available.

To access the detailed UCMDB Class Model specific Content Pack 26.00 running on UCMDB 11.0, go to either of the following places:

• The Content Pack documentation (Discovery and Integrations Content Help > Use (or Develop) > Universal Data Model (UDM)).

• The Micro Focus Software Information Portal:

  • To access the UCMDB Data Model spreadsheet, click here.

  • To access the HTML version of the UCMDB Data Model, click here.

To access the detailed UCMDB Class Model specific Content Pack 25.00 running on UCMDB 10.33, go to either of the following places:

• The Content Pack documentation (Discovery and Integrations Content Help > Use > Universal Data Model (UDM)).

• The Micro Focus Software Information Portal:

  • To access the UCMDB Data Model spreadsheet, click here.

  • To access the HTML version of the UCMDB Data Model, click here.