BMC Discovery (ADDM) adapter schema change

FlexNet Manager Suite version 2020 R2

The adapter used to import inventory from BMC Discovery (previously known as ADDM) has been updated to internal schema version 1.10 with the upgrade of FlexNet Manager Suite to release 2020 R2. This update enables new features when the adapter is used with Flexera One Discovery & Inventory. In contrast, for implementations of FlexNet Manager Suite, there is effectively no change:

• The same inventory information is imported as with the previous version of the adapter
• The same versions of BMC Discovery are supported
• The new adapter is backward-compatible with previous versions of FlexNet Beacon, so that there is no need to update the inventory beacon that manages these imports if you decide the upgrade the adapter.

However, the new schema does require an update to the staging database used with the adapter, and also requires the changed Compliance Reader supplied with the 2020 R2 release of your central application server(s) to manage the changed imports (which means that the new adapter cannot be used with any previous releases of FlexNet Manager Suite).

The relevant section of the FlexNet Manager Suite Inventory Adapters and Connectors Reference (available as PDF through the title page of online help, and as PDF or HTML from https://docs.flexera.com/) has been updated to reflect the new schema. If you decide to upgrade your BMC Discovery adapter, it is available within the Adapter Tools for FlexNet Manager Suite archive, downloadable through Flexera Community.