JDisc’s way to China…

Of course, every software developer knows, that there are many different character sets out there. And of course, every developer takes actions to handle multiple character sets. And of course, we do too. At least that is what we thought until some prospect tried our software on a chinese operating system. And unfortunately, some of[...]
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Feature Preview: Scheduled Report Export

This feature has been made in the Provence, the nicest place to develop software… We usually present upcoming features in order to get early feedback from our customers. That really helps us to improve the usability and listen to your needs. This time, I am presenting a feature that has been requested from several customers[...]
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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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