Release Notes > Enhancements

Enhancements

The following table lists the enhancement type fixes in Content Pack 28.

ID

Component

Summary

QCCR1H64721

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Resources

The Host Resources/Applications by WMI job can now properly discover Windows mount points on FileSystem CI.

QCCR1H77089

Universal Discovery - Content - Enterprise Applications

Added the following new discovery:

Oracle Enterprise Manager Discovery (Beta): Discover data from Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) with an integration to OEM as a data source for the entire Oracle stack, including databases, application topology, and infrastructure topology.

Note This capability is available in the ITOM Marketplace Community Content for UD. If you are interested in this capability, you can download and try it out. If this capability receives positive feedback, it will be included in a future content pack.

QCCR1H77646

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Connection

The Host Connection by SNMP job can now report the IOS version on Cisco 3750.

QCCR1H79648

Universal Discovery - Content - Virtualization - VMware

Added a new attribute Disk Allocation(MB) to VMware Host Resource CI type to indicate the total disk size allocated to VM in megabytes (MB).

QCCR1H82199

Universal Discovery - Content

Stopped reporting the server name on the Name attribute for Web Server Virtual Host CI.

Added the identification rule for Web Server Virtual Host CI to identify it by the name and server name.

QCCR1H83928

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Connection

Enhanced the Host Connection by WMI job to report meaningful messages when required permissions are missing.

QCCR1H85355

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Resources

The Host Resources/Applications by PowerShell job now uses the following command for the memory discovery:

wmic path Win32_PhysicalMemory get Capacity /format:list

QCCR1H86861

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Resources

Added a new attribute OSInstalledDate to Node CIT. The Host Connection by Shell, Host Connection by WMI, Inventory Discovery by Scanner, and Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment jobs can now discover the OS installed date.

QCCR1H91081

Universal Discovery - Content - Database

Enhanced the MSSQL Topology by SQL job to report the database size by adding a new attribute DB Size on MSSQL Database CI.

QCCR1H101031

Integration

Enhanced the CSV mapping file to support a new converter stringToList for the Import from CSV File integration job. For details, see How to Convert Strings to Numbers.

QCCR1H101477

Universal Discovery

Added multiple normalization rules to accurately identify more Linux distributions.

QCCR1H101552

Data related modules - Identification

Added Name as key attributes to identify the CI type FunctionalGroup.

QCCR1H107917

Universal Discovery - Content - Database

Enhanced the MSSQL Topology by SQL job to populate the database size and database instance mirror.

For the database instance location, it has already been populated on SQL File CI.

QCCR1H109230

Universal Discovery - Content - Virtualization - VMware

Added a new parameter ignoreHostsWithoutHostNames to the VMware ESX Topology by VIM and VMware vCenter Topology by VIM jobs. This parameter indicates whether to ignore hosts without host names. The default value is false.

QCCR1H109988

Universal Discovery - Content - Virtualization - VMware

Added two new attributes Tools Running Status and Tools Version Status to the CI type VMware Host Resource to represent the VMware tools running status and version status respectively.

QCCR1H110889

Universal Discovery - Protocols

Added a new parameter unsetHistFile to the globalSettings.xml file. This parameter indicates whether to prevent the SSH protocol from recording the executed command to the environment variable $HISTFILE on UNIX server. If the value is true, the executed command is not recorded in the environment variable $HISTFILE on UNIX server. The default value is false.

QCCR1H114467

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Resources

The Host Resources by Shell job can now populate the File System Type for UNIX on FileSystem CI.

QCCR1H115018

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Resources

The Host Resources by Shell job can now discover Installed Software on a node under Debian operating system.

QCCR1H115400

Universal Discovery - Content - Host Resources

Added a new parameter filterInstalledSoftwareByName to the Host Resources/Applications by Shell job. This parameter specifies the Installed Software names that are not reported. It is a blacklist mechanism in order to avoid the reporting of unwanted Installed Software.

Regular expressions are supported. For example, if you set the value to KB.*, all Installed Software names starting with KB are filtered out.

QCCR1H116285

Universal Discovery - Content - Database

Added a new parameter reportEmptySchemas to the Oracle Database Topology by SQL and Oracle Database Topology by SQL - Service Name jobs. This parameter indicates whether to report empty schemas. The default value is true.

QCCR1H116863

Universal Discovery - Content - Virtualization - Solaris Zones

Added a new parameter reportPoweredOffZones to the Solaris Zones by TTY job to determine whether to report zones that are not running. The default value is true.

Added a new parameter reportPoweredOffLdomServers to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Technology by Shell job to determine whether to report LDOM servers that are not running. The default value is true.

QCCR1H117597

Universal Discovery - Content - J2EE

WebSphere Discovery by Shell using fs_discovery_method in globalSettings.xml will try another method if the configured one fails.

QCCR1H117819

Universal Discovery - Inventory Discovery

Enhanced the Inventory Discovery by Scanner and Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment jobs by adding a new OS User Last Logon attribute to the OS User CIT for reporting the current OS user last logon time.

QCCR1H119428

Universal Discovery - Content - J2EE

Updated the remoteJVMArgs parameter value from -Xms64m -Xmx256m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m to -Xms64m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m in the following jobs aligned with the JRE8 non-heap memory:

  • JEE JBoss by JMX
  • JEE JBoss Connections by JMX
  • JEE Weblogic Connections by JMX
  • JEE Weblogic by JMX Job
  • JEE WebSphere Connections by JMX
  • JEE WebSphere by Shell or JMX
  • SAP Solution Manager by SAP JCO
  • SAP ABAP Connection by SAP JCO
  • SAP ABAP Topology by SAP JCO
  • SAP Applications by SAP JCO
  • SAP Java Topology by SAP JMX
  • SAP Solution Manager by SAP JCO
  • SAP Solution Manager Topology by SAP JCO

QCCR1H119640

Universal Discovery - Content - Network

Updated the PowerShell discovery related documentation as follows:

  • The supported Windows PowerShell versions are updated to 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1.
  • Added Microsoft .NET Framework Requirements in "PowerShell Protocol".

QCCR1H119890

Universal Discovery - Content - Virtualization - HPE nPar
  • Added the correct message if the destination host is an HPVM vPar.
  • Updated the message "No guests currently configured" to report a warning instead of an error in the HPE IVM by Shell job.
  • Updated the message "The destination host is not a part of HP IVM system" to report a warning instead of an error in the HPE IVM by Shell job.

QCCR1H121298

Universal Discovery - Content - Virtualization - VMware

Added support for VMware vCloud 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2.

QCCR1H121786

Data related modules - Generic integrations - Generic push adapter

Enhanced the relationship deletion logic for the Push DB Adapter.

QCCR1H122592

Universal Discovery - License

Changed the licensing requirement of the Host Fingerprint by NMAP job from Advanced to Basic.

QCCR8D64724

Server - Data Model

"BusinessCriticality" is already described in Data Model documents. For details, refer to https://docs.microfocus.com/UCMDB/2018.08/cp-docs/docs/eng/class_model/html/index.html.

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