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Enhancements

This section contains a list of enhancements introduced in this fix pack.

New features in this fix pack

This fix pack contains the following enhancements:

Table 3. Customer enhancement request references
Enhancement Reference
Inventory Inventory software scan returns access time information MR0808085933
Inventory Exclude history tables 235414
Patch Management Windows Update Agent (WUA) 3.0 support
DLA Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) version 7.1.-TCMDLA-I
New Endpoint support Windows 7 support
SLES 11 support
New platform support Windows 2008 r2 support
Inventory software scan returns access time information - Feature MR0808085933
With this feature, if you perform an Inventory software scan, configured using the Scan for installed products using signature matching scan option, you retrieve new information named ACCESSED TIME, which shows the GMT time when the signature file was last accessed.
Exclude history tables - Feature 235414
With this feature you can now exclude the history processing of some tables, to improve performance when loading the scan results into the database. All the Inventory tables that contain the COMPUTER_SYS_ID attribute have history data collected.

If you have Inventory tables for which you do not need to keep the history tables, perform the following steps:

  1. Create the EXCLUDED_H_TABLES table.
  2. Insert the name of the table to be excluded in EXCLUDED_H_TABLES.

You can find the SQL statements for performing these operations in the h_inv_dbvendor_schema_431_FP01.sql script file.

WUA 3.0 support
With this feature the support has been extended to WUA version 3.0 for the Patch Management component.

If you have installed WUA 3.0, perform the following steps before using the new WUA version:

  1. Locate and open the WUA.spd file.
  2. Replace, for example, all WindowsUpdateAgent20-x86.exe occurrences in the file with the following file name:
    WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe

For more details about the WUA 3.0 support, see also the Limitations section.

Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) version 7.1.-TCMDLA-I
The new version of the Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) for Tivoli Configuration Manager has been published on the OPAL Web site and replaces older versions.

This DLA provides resource instance and resource relationship instance information for the Tivoli Configuration Manager according to the IDML specification using a lightweight, easy-to-use solution based on IBM Tivoli Director Integrator.

Windows 7 and SLES 11 endpoint support
The endpoint support has now been extended to endpoints having the following operating systems installed:
Note:
To enable WSUS 3.0 to manage Windows 7 endpoints for Patch Management operations, you must download the Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a206ae20-2695-436c-9578-3403a7d46e40

Windows 2008 r2 platform support
The support has now been extended to Tivoli servers and endpoints with the Windows 2008 r2 operating system installed.
Note:
To enable WSUS 3.0 to manage Windows 2008 r2 endpoints for Patch Management operations, you must download the Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a206ae20-2695-436c-9578-3403a7d46e40


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