Release Highlights for Universal Discovery Content Pack 25.00 (CP25)

Updated October 2017

  • New and extended discovery:

    • Red Hat Virtualization Discovery: Discover Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) topology 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.

  • Updated versions for discovered applications:

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

  • Integrations:

    Added a mapping file sample about using the Reference link type for the ServiceNow Enhanced Generic Adapter in Sample Integration Population Query.

  • Universal Discovery Inventory

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

    • 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.

  • 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 following locations:

    • The Content Pack documentation (in UCMDB UI, go to Help > Discovery and Integrations Content Help > Reference (or Use) > Universal Data Model (UDM)).

    • The Software Information Portal:

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

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Documentation Library

The Configuration Management System (CMS) 10 Documentation Library provides download links for all Universal CMDB (UCMDB) documents of 10.xx releases and all Universal Discovery (UD) Content Pack documents for CP11 and later releases, available on the HPE Software Support portal (SSO), including all CMS documents for the most recent releases.

You can use this library to access any of the guides and release notes relevant to UCMDB versions 10.xx and UD Content Pack 11 or later, or to download the full documentation set as a bundle.

To access the latest version of this documentation library available on the SSO site, click CMS 10 Documentation Library.

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