Supportability – Not sexy, but essential for JDisc…

Dear JDisc friends, first let me wish you all a happy new year. Hope you had an excellent start into 2014. The first topic in our blog for this year is about supportability. Supportability is often ignored by software developers and architects. One of the reasons might be, that is does not add any immediate[...]
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Feature Preview: Router and Switch Module Assignment to Network Interface Ports

This new feature made it into the JDisc Discovery 3.0. Enterprise routers and switches often have module slots for extension modules. Those modules often provide new high speed network ports such as 10GB ethernet uplinks. Of course, administrators want to know which modules are part of a switch or router. JDisc Discovery did collect this[...]
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JDisc Discovery 3.0 – Maintenance Release 3009

Today, we have just a small menu for you. Nothing big, just a maintenance release with some minor bugfixes and enhancements. This will be the last maintenance release before we are going to release version 3.1. This maintenance release focuses on the discovery of new devices and on improvements of existing functionality.   Application Server[...]
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Maintenance Release JDisc Discovery 3.0 – Build 3006

JDisc Discovery is the Swiss Knife when it comes to network inventory and documentation. First, we just want to thank all JDisc users for their feedback. Many new ideas and enhancements are direct input from our customers. Today, we released a new maintenace release with minor improvements and some bugfixes. We’re always looking forward getting[...]
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Work in Progress: WLANs in Network Topology Maps

As announced, our development team works on the visualization of WLANs within the network map. We already have a first implementation that shows wireless lans as clouds with a WLAN icon. WLAN connections are dotted lines instead of solid lines for ethernet connections. A checkbox within the toolbar lets users decide whether to show or[...]
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What’s coming next?

Recently, we have released JDisc Discovery 3.0. So you might ask yourself what will be coming next… We are currently working on some minor enhancements from some customers such as collecting the duplex mode for network interfaces. As usual, we are also continuesly adding new devices that we support. But we will also add additional[...]
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JDisc Discovery 3.0

Today, JDisc has released its new major version 3.0 of its network inventory and documentation suite “JDisc Discovery”. During the last months, we worked on three new major features besides of many minor enhancements. Follow the links below for a more detailed description… Browse live WBEM or WMI information with our new WBEM/WMI browser. Discover[...]
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WLAN Discovery

Our development team has completed the WLAN discovery within our Networking Add-On. This has been the last implementation step for the coming major release 3.0. There are plenty of WLAN tools out there on the internet. However, they usually focus on WLANs received by a single PC or laptop. But there are many good reasons[...]
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Detect your J2EE Application Servers

J2EE application servers are very popular nowadays as they provide a scalable and stable platform for your enterprise scale applications. However administrators can easily loose control when departments deploy new applications or new J2EE servers. J2EE servers often do not use the platform’s standard installation procedures. Especially Oracle WebLogic and JBoss use either their own[...]
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