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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 &#... 
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... 
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 ... 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... 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... Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerability UPDATE 2/1/2018: We have further updated the OSU packages which contain fixes from Red Hat which addresses previous issues we reported with Xen and AWS based virtual guests. Important This OS Upd... NEW! BMC Discovery 11.3 - Container Infrastructure Dependencies Hello Everyone, I am pleased to announce BMC Discovery 11.3 is now generally available. This release is a true testament to our ability to introduce features and content that align with the ever changing ... Trending in Support: Discovery OSU 2018-01 problem on pre-11.2 [Note: edited, after discussion with Kerryn Wood] I wish to draw your attention to a problem applying 2018-01 TKU on an appliance earlier than 11.2: an upstream package naming problem leads to a failure and a ... Trending in Support: 10000 Days of VMware Tools I saw Tool in 2007 at Brixton Academy; great show. Somewhat less enjoyable (depending on your musical taste, I suppose) is having to install VMware Tools on VMware-deployed appliances. We document the procedure here. ... Trending in Support: A bit too Open? I admit it: we don't get many issues around OpenVMS, Although I can't say I have really used it, I get vaguely nostalgic for the dusty old MicroVax that sat next to me for a while at the University of Nottingh... Expansion in Virtualization and Cloud Platform Support for Appliance Deployment Hello Everyone, I am pleased to announce that we have expanded our support for deployment of the BMC Discovery virtual appliance to include many popular virtualization and cloud platforms. Please review ...