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October TKU Released! Hello Community! This past Wednesday, if you are subscribed to TKU release announcements, you would have received an email from me announcing the latest TKU availability. As a reminder to the timing chan... 
Notes on extending Network Device Discovery (and defects) As part of Premier Support, I was recently on-site at a customer for a few days, doing some "mini consultancy" work, mainly looking at extending Network Device discovery. Here, I want to make some notes to highlight s... 
Forward your log Just a quick note on syslog forwarding from the Discovery appliance. While the Discovery appliance (physical or virtual) is based on a fairly standard CentOS build, we are careful to control the packages and c... ADDM out of disk space in /usr Sometimes, a customer runs out of disk space on their ADDM appliance in /usr, and when that happens, the Services will not start. First, check for "core" files in /usr/tideway/cores: cd /usr/tideway/cores ls... 
The BMC Discovery documentation has a new look Hi, The BMC Discovery documentation looks a little different today. We have applied a new presentation layer for the content. It provides: A responsive design to handle mobile and desktop users. A version pi... 
ADDM / Discovery Pattern Language / TPL Guide PDF The most useful way to view the TPL documentation is to export a PDF of the document. 1) find the doc: The Pattern Language TPL - BMC Discovery 11.3 - BMC Documentation &#... July TKU Released Greetings Community! This past Monday, if you are subscribed to TKU release announcements, you saw that July is our first month of our new cadence for TKU release. As a reminder to the timing changes, th... BMC Discovery: The tw_root_node_key_import tool may fail if not run in a 'screen' session When importing root node keys from a large environment, tw_root_node_key_import may run for many hours before completing. If it is not run using 'screen', the session may timeout, and the import may fail without error... 
New Distributed Storage Model Greetings Community! Greg here, Product Manager for Discovery (intro post from April). We have recently released a new Distributed Storage model for Discovery via the May TKU (Release Notes). The D... CentOS 7.x December OSU - sudo or not sudo, that is the question. The December OSU updates many packages, and upgrades the operating system to CentOS 7.6. Included in the upgrade to 7.6 is an update to the sudo package. The change in sudo includes: “PAM account m... 
New Product Manager @ BMC I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to this very active and engaging community. My name is Greg DeaKyne. I was born and raised in Indiana and escaped the cold winters for sunny Charle... Trending in Support: It's my software and I'll cry if I want to... Just when you had got to grips with the Windows ransomware vulnerability WannaCry, comes another big one, dubbed SambaCry, a serious vulnerability in the open source Samba package which implements SMB/CIFS protocols. ... Trending in Support: Desultory Notes on: Discovery Appliances with LDAPS LDAP/Active Directory Server SAN I have noticed that while many customers were using integration to Active Directory, many were using LDAP not LDAPS. One customer in particular said it didn't work. I noticed a... Share Your Knowledge on Our Knowledge Hi Everyone! Our community expertise and interaction is our strength and we want to make sure we are capturing the wealth of knowledge our customers obtain while using our products. You can now provide comme... 
BMC Helix Discovery - Marketing Launch Announcement Hello Discovery community! If you have been browsing bmc.com and are following BMC social media you will notice a lot of buzz around Helix Discovery. Marketing and sales were too excited to wait and are ... Trending in Support: Replacing the ADDM appliance's default certificates [2018-09-28 EDIT] : Since this post was written, new certificate management features have been added. Thus, this is of historical interest only. For new versions, please consult: Appliance certificates - BMC ... Patch Availability Notice: BMC Discovery 11.3, 11.2, 11.1, 11.0, 10.2, 10.1, and 10.0 Greetings Community, We have released a patch update across all our supported versions of BMC Discovery to address important defects, including security fixes. The files are available for download on the... Trending in Support: Hardware End-of-Life Data For a long time, the TKU Extended Data Pack has been able to mark software end-of-life, such as this for one of my ESX servers: However it may have gone unnoticed to you (I certainly had missed it, until a c... Trending in Support: RSA SecureID Support For several years, Discovery has had an integration with RSA SecureID for 2 factor authentication to the appliance. However, at 11.3 it has been deprecated, and I cannot recommend its use because: It has only ... Critical DHCP client vulnerability: CVE-2018-1111 Details of a critical vulnerability in the dhcp clients shipped on RHEL, and CentOS, 6.x and 7.x have been released and designated CVE-2018-1111. This affects all currently supported versions of the Discovery applianc...