New Device Filters

Dear JDisc friends, when scanning your IT environment, you often want to exclude devices that you are not interested in or which you don’t want to treat with discovery protocols such as SSH, telnet, or WMI. From the beginning, there were two kind of device filters: – a filter which excludes devices based on their[...]
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Scan FreeBSD Servers…

Hello JDisc Friends, recently, one of our prospects asked whether we’re able to scan FreeBSD servers. Unfortunately, the answer was no at that point in time. But our developers got interested in supporting this platform and started a quick investigation. FreeBSD is just yet another operating system of the Unix family. So they installed FreeBSD[...]
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Scanning Stacked Switches

Dear JDisc Friends, SNMP based devices such as network printers, switches and routers appear as “Unknown SNMP device” unless we have implemented support for them. Typically customers submit SNMP walks (a complete dump of SNMP information) and import the SNMP walk into one of our simulation tools. The simulator enables our developers to mock the[...]
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New Feature: New Comment Field for default Accounts

Hi JDisc friends, my name is Pedram Khoshdani. I´m a new member of JDisc and happy to be onboard. In your daily digital life, you definitely have come across situations where you tell yourself how great it could be if a software had some small functionality to make your life whole lot easier. This functionality[...]
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Network Discovery Changes under the Hood

Dear JDisc friends, apart from the major changes and shiny new features, we are constantly adding new smaller enhancements and features to our product. Of course, all of them appear within the release notes. But honestly, who’s reading release notes? I don’t :-). Most of the time, they are pretty boring to read and unfortunately,[...]
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Database Discovery…

Dear JDisc friends, today, I am going to talk a little bit on how we improve our database discovery. So far, JDisc Discovery  scans so called application instances. Application instances can be instances of databases, web servers or application servers. One our our recent prospects requested to scan the port for each database instance. Furthermore[...]
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What happens if devices get decommissioned?

Dear JDisc Friends, some time passed by since I wrote my last blog entry. This time, I would like to present a new feature that cares about devices that have been removed from the network. Devices are aging as we do and they get removed from the network after their lifetime. JDisc Discovery currently does[...]
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What’s coming next?

Dear JDisc friends, we just have finished our 3.2 release with its new licensing schema and we did a major redesign of our WEB page. Hope you like it! Not it is the time to have a quick look on what we have on our plate for the next couple of months. Adding new devices[...]
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JDisc Discovery 3.1 – Build 3115 – Our way towards datacenter transparency…

JDisc Discovery 3.1 – Build 3115 We follow an agile development process in order to provide new features quickly to our customers and to get early feedback for new features. Typically, we release a new builds every three to six weeks. Although the release number doesn’t change, this doesn’t mean that there are significant changes[...]
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