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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WBEM / WMI Browser Preview

WBEM/WMI Browser for JDisc Discovery
At JDisc, we always provide sneak previews. This time, we look at a feature that will make it into our next major release 3.0. Our new WBEM/WMI Browser lets our users easily browse all available WMI information fow Windows computers and WBEM information for Unix computers and VMware Servers. As you might know, WMI is[...]
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JDisc Discovery 2.9 – Maintenance Release Build 2925

Gärtringen, 12th June 2013, JDisc released today build 2925 of its network inventory and documentation solution “JDisc Discovery”. Build 2925 is a minor bugfix release containing the following changes and fixes. JDisc discovery detects now the interface speed for interfaces with more than 10GB per second correctly. Before, an integer value overflow in the standard[...]
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JDisc Discovery 2.9 – Build 2923

At JDisc, we do not like long update cycles. Customers need new features and bugfixes as soon as possible and not once or twice a year. That’s why we frequently release builds with new features and some bugfixes. Build 2923 concentrates on improvements for the networking add-on and on some bugfixes for very large environments.[...]
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New Ideas: What we could do about WLANs…

I cannot stress often enough that the best source for new ideas are our customers and prospects. Recently, a prospect asked whether we could read the signal strengths that WLAN access points are sending with. Our standard answer to questions like “Can you collect information x from device y” is: Yes, if the device exposes[...]
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JDisc Discovery 2.9 – Build 2921

Supported Discovered Devices
JDisc keeps on moving forward with its network inventory and documentation software JDisc Discovery and releases build 2921 after a two month development cycle. Our development delivered a bunch of new features, improvements, and some bug fixes. The changes affecct integrating common network troubleshooting tools, improvements within the network topology algorithm, support for new devices[...]
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JDisc Discovery 2.9 has been released

dependency mapping process mapping
JDisc has released a new version of its network inventory and documentation product JDisc Discovery. We have improved our products in three different areas. A new reporting mode enables IT consulting and service providers to leave a read-only version with the discovered data at the customer at no cost. JDisc extends its device detection with[...]
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VLan Discovery

VLANs are a common technology to provide segmentation for local area networks. Creating different segments contributes to addressing issues such as security or scalability. Network traffic can be separated by VLANs even if devices are connected to the same switch. The switch also assures that broadcast in one VLAN does not get forwarded to other[...]
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