What's New in Content Pack 27

This section provides information about new features and enhancements added to Content Pack 27.

Updated Versions for Discovered Applications

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

• Microsoft Message Queue 6.0, 6.3
• OpenStack Pike
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry

New Discovery

Added the following new discovery:

Kubernetes Discovery : Discover information about Kubernetes Cluster and the topology of Docker instances managed by this cluster.

Universal Discovery Inventory

Enhanced the Inventory Discovery by Scanner and Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment jobs to properly discover Visual Studio edition on Windows platform.

Universal Discovery Agent

• Added support for AES 256-bit encryption in UD Agent.
• Added a UD Agent command line parameter --version to return the version number of the installed UD Agent in your environment.

Integrations

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

  • Micro Focus Network Automation (NA) 10.50
  • Micro Focus Network Node Manager (NNMi) 10.50

• Added a new attribute discoverDeviceGroup to the Pull Topology from Network Automation adapter. This attribute indicates whether to discover Device Group CIs. The default value is true.

  You can now pull LastSnapshotAttemptDate from NA to UCMDB. For details, see How to Pull LastSnapshotAttemptDate from NA.

• Added a new parameter deleteRelations=false to the push.properties file of the Data Push into Atrium adapter. By default, UCMDB deletes CIs and their connected relationships. If this value is set to true, UCMDB supports the following two scenarios:

  • Deletes CIs and their connected relationships

  • Deletes relationships only

• Enhanced ServiceNow Integration Using Enhanced Generic Adapter as follows:

  • Added support for the referenced topology, referencing topology, and relationship-based topology
  • Added support for Jakarta and Kingston
  • Improved usability

  For details, see ServiceNow Generic Adapter Enhancements in CP27.

Others

• Added a new attribute amazon_resource_name to AWS Resource CI to represent the discovered name of Amazon Resource.

• Added a new parameter Trust All SSL Certificates to the JEE Weblogic by JMX and JEE Weblogic Connections by JMX jobs.

  This parameter determines whether to trust all SSL certificates if the WebLogic server does not have a valid one. The default value is false.

• Added support for PowerCmd in the following jobs:

  • IIS Applications by NTCMD or UDA or PowerCmd (formerly IIS Applications by NTCMD or UDA)
  • Microsoft Message Queue Topology by NTCMD or UDA or PowerCmd (formerly Microsoft Message Queue Topology by NTCMD or UDA)
  • MS Cluster by NTCMD or UDA or PowerCmd (formerly MS Cluster by NTCMD or UDA)
  • TCP Data by Shell
  • Web Server by Shell
• Enhanced the VMware ESX Topology by VIM, Host Connection by WMI, and Host Connection by Shell jobs to discover BIOS date and version on Windows and Linux platforms.
• Scanner version: 11.10.000.431
• Universal Discovery Agent version: 11.10.000.431
• Inventory Discovery Knowledge version: 2018.04