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Web UI – Custom Attributes

Dear JDisc friends, Custom attributes allow users to extend device discovery with custom properties and attach them to devices. This feature is supported in our client for quite some time. In release 5176, we have redesigned and implemented this feature in the new Web UI. We  have published a video to explain the basic concepts[...]
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Supported Devices

Dear JDisc friends, As an IP scanner product that detects all devices on your network, we pretty often get the question about what devices we support. What device types, vendors, and operating systems, and do we have special scan procedures for dedicated software items? Answering that question was always pretty challenging for us, and we[...]
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Manage Access Credentials in JDisc Discovery

Dear JDisc users, JDisc Discovery requires access credentials to get excellent and complete inventory information. Configuring access credentials can be difficult and, in some cases, dangerous if not used properly. JDisc Discovery uses a variety of protocols and APIs to obtain information, and all of them require credentials. Furthermore, there are different locations where to[...]
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JDisc Discovery – UI basics

Dear JDisc friends, As the new user interfaces reached public preview, we have created a series of videos to explain the basic concepts. Today, we have published the first part. In this part, we explain how to access the new user interface and we dive into the first two sections; overview and scanner. Additionally, as[...]
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JDisc Discovery scans Kubernetes Cluster

Dear JDisc users, we haven’t written new blog posts for a while due to the efforts to redesign our website. But, now as the new web page is released, we are going to continue to inform about new features, developments, or changes in the network discovery universe… Today, I would like to highlight a new[...]
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SSL Ports, Ciphers, Protocols and Certificates

Dear JDisc friends, with the coming build 5136, we have implemented a new feature to the Security and Dependency Mapping Add-On. As you might know, the Dependency Add-On detects the list of open TCP/IP and UDP ports. A customer asked us whether we could get information about the SSL certificates and encryption algorithms for each[...]
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Understand your IT Landscape better

Hello JDisc Friends, With our JDisc Discovery built-in reports and your custom reports, you have achieved a very good understanding of your IT landscape. But is it enough? In order to help you in this direction, we have just implemented in our new Web UI the overview dashboard. In this dashboard, it is possible to[...]
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Using non-administrative accounts to discover Windows computers

Dear JDisc user, have you already been asked by your IT security department not to use local or domain users with administrator rights on Windows computers for network discovery? Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t offer Linux-like privilege elevation methods like SU or SUDO. Of course, security folks want you to embrace the principle of least privilege (PoLP)[...]
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Why Supportability is so important to us

Dear JDisc users, do you feel like the guy in the image when talking to support hotlines? Are you playing ticket ping pong with the support engineer who is permanently asking for new log files or further information? This troubleshooting process can be very time-consuming and frustrating on both sides. At JDisc, we have always[...]
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