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Network Creation Policy

Dear JDisc users, We frequently get feedback from our users that JDisc Discovery creates IP4 networks that don’t exist. So what’s the reason for that? The reason is that JDisc Discovery tries to determine all IP addresses and subnet masks for a device. The IP address, together with the subnet mask, defines the IP4 network[...]
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JDisc Discovery GraphQL API

Did you know that JDisc Discovery has a API for programmatic access of all the discovery data and functionality? In this article we want to introduce this programming interface and have a deeper look at the how to use it with various programming languages. Most often application have today RESTful APIs, that follow the REST[...]
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SNMP Custom Data Collection

Dear JDisc friends, first of all I wish everybody a happy new year 2021! JDisc Discovery supports since its beginnings the collection of custom attributes via scripts and reading registry keys. The custom attribute data collection is often used by customers to collect information that JDisc Discovery does not collect out-of-the-box. However, some customers requested[...]
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LLDP-MED – Improved Discovery

Network traffic generated by the discovery
Dear JDisc friends,JDisc Discovery uses a lot of different protocols and techniques to identify as many devices on the network as possible. A customer notified us that there is a protocol that is named LLDP-MED (LLDP – Media Endpoint Devices). LLDP-MED is an extension of the frequently used LLDP protocol on many switches to exchange[...]
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JDisc Discovery and Microsoft Intune

Azure Cloud Inventory
Dear JDisc users, Microsoft Intune is a cloud based service that focuses on mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application Management (MAM). You can manage your mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or laptops with Intune. Most of the devices are only rarely or never connected to the corporate network. Therefore, we have extended our[...]
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New User Interface – Alpha Version

Dear JDisc friends,we are working already for quite a while about our new browser-based user interface. The new user interface is meant as an early developer preview or alpha version. Its purpose is to provide an impression of what the new UI will look like. Furthermore, we want to offer customers the possibility of early[...]
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Hetzner Cloud Support

Dear JDisc friends, we just added the support for the popular German Hetzner cloud. When you provide an API key, then we read information about all your VMs using Hetzner’s REST API. Besides the Azure, AWS, and Cisco Meraki cloud, this is not the forth cloud technology which JDisc Discovery supports. We get information about[...]
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Too many open Windows Error – Split Windows!

Dear JDisc friends, have you also been confused annoyed by all the different report windows, when working with JDisc Discovery? JDisc Discovery opens a new Window whenever you navigate from one report to another. This can be pretty confusing since you end up easily with more than ten Windows open. In order to simplify usage,[...]
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JDisc Discovery API

Dear JDisc friends, you might know, that we are currently working on the new browser-based user interface. We are going to use modern technologies to make the user interface as responsive as possible. Technology-wise, we need to implement a REST interface for our application. The REST interface is being used to communicate between the JDisc[...]
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Collecting IP Configuration

Dear JDisc friends, upon customer request, we have enhanced the data collection to gather IP configuration data. The upcoming build will get information about the IP configuration for each network interface. The IP configuration information includes DHCP server configuration including lease start and lease expiration date configured DNS servers together with the DNS suffix search[...]
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