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What's New in Content Pack 25

This section provides information about new features and enhancements added to Content Pack 25.

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

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 by the new job Firewall Topology by Shell job.

For more details, see the UCMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Guide - Discovery Modules.

Universal Discovery Inventory

  • Inventory Scanner can now discover Solaris Zone topology and Solaris LDOM topology.

    Added the following new job parameter to the Inventory Discovery by Manual Scanner Deployment and Inventory Discovery by Scanner jobs:

    discoverLDOM. Specifies whether to report Solaris LDOM partitions.

    Note If the value of this parameter is set to true and LDOMs are discovered, UD Full (UDF) license is required.

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

Automated Service Modeling (ASM) Improvements

  • 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. For more details, see UCMDB Browser documentation for version 4.15.

  • Updated ASM configuration signature to support some special format in JDBC connection strings for JBoss server.
  • ASM can now read and parse the ports in the same line with the delimiter "," (comma) from portNumberToPortName.xml.
  • ASM can now 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 now resolve the SiteMinder configuration file to report SiteMinder policy servers.
  • ASM can now discover web servers balanced by Varnish cache proxy by parsing the Varnish configuration files.

Integrations

Documentation

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 new 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.

    Now all available versions for UCMDB, UCMDB Browser, and UD Content Pack are displayed. Just click a product version to access the online help for the product.

Content Pack Class Model Documentation

A detailed UCMDB Class Model specific to Content Pack 25.00 running on UCMDB 10.33 is accessible from the Content Pack documentation:

  • In UCMDB UI, go to Help > Discovery and Integrations Content Help > Reference (or Use) > Universal Data Model (UDM)
  • From the Software Information Portal, go to Universal Discovery Content Pack 25.00 help, then go to Reference (or Use) > Universal Data Model (UDM)).

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 on how to disable Call Home, see "How to Disable Call Home" in the UCMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Guide - General Reference.
  • 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