Today business organizations have enormous IT estate spread across the earth’s canvas in different locations. Having painted the world with different IT assets, it becomes hard to manage the variance and stay updated on the information related to latest IT estate, becoming a bottleneck for all IT administrators. BMC Discovery 11.3 Helix is an advanced solution which provides business owners with the required handy information to keep you updated on your IT infrastructure details, such as:

IT leaders need to consider following points ITSM Pre and post implementation:

  • “What assets do I have?” – Inventory
  • “How are they connected?” – Relationships
  • “Where are they located?” – Locations
  • “How are they being used?” – Business Context

Today’s practices of managing operations are quite different and have unrealistic ways of dealing with the critical information of configuration items which form an indispensible part of your acute business applications.

Either we are unaware about the entire stack we have or we fail to relate it at business service level, or we fail to update our inventory regularly, the effect of which is either we lack information, or we have incomplete data, or invalid information to manage our IT assets. The failure doesn’t stop here, it multiplies its effect during managing your changes and deducing impact analysis in case of identifying which change needs to be prioritized ahead of other and reasons for such decisions.

BMC Discovery is a solution that helps discover your data center inventory automatically, configure and relate application data to the IT assets. BMC Discovery helps managing localized asset inventory, managing compliance data and accentuate your operations

What is new in Discovery 11.3 Helix?

BMC Discovery 11 uses a sleek design with logical regrouping of various tabs like Application, Infrastructure, Discovery and Reports into menu based UI.

  • Container Infrastructure Discovery:
    Earlier the Container management software was discovered as SIs using TKU patterns. Container discovery enables BMC Discovery 11.3 to discover the management software controls.
  • Direct REST API directory:
    With the addition of Nimble Web API with token authentication credential, BMC Discovery 11.3 empowers to directly discover Nimble storage using REST APIs.
  • CentOS 7 Migration Options:
    With the replacement of earlier OS with CentOS 7 now ensures continued support for the appliance OS during its lifetime and provides support for newer hardware.
  • Other Enhancements Include:
    Stacked devices, Virtual network devices, Nutanix HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) discovery, improved modelling and visualizations.