Security really matters to us!

Security really matters!   you might know, that Germans are crazy about cars (no exception to me :-). We get crazy, when we see some scratches on our favorite vehicle! You as an IT administrator should be as paranoid about your IT infrastructure, as the Germans are about cars. Most network discovery tools require administrative[...]
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New Whitepaper discussing Data Quality in Discovery Tools

Data Quality in Discovery Tools
Take care when looking at network discovery tools. Many vendors promise to collect zillions of different device attributes. But do you really need them all? Who cares which keyboard is connected to a PC or what mouse you are using? When it comes to network discovery tools, the data quality is more important than the[...]
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Network Discovery and Malware Detection?

Dear JDisc friends, sometimes a beer in a pub is the best source for new ideas. I was meeting with a former HP colleague in a pub in Herrenberg (Google if you want to know where it is 🙂 and we were talking what we have been doing since we left HP. I was talking[...]
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Ever heard about JDisc’s project licenses?

Having an up-to-date network documentation is the key for many IT processes. Common solutions such as CMDB, helpdesk or service management solutions can only operate efficiently, if the underlying data is up-to-date. That’s where network inventory and discovery solutions enter the game. Their goal is to harvest as much information automatically as possible. In most[...]
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What’s actually the scope for a discovery scan?

The actual scope for a network inventory scan
Especially new users are not fully aware of the power how JDisc finds new addreses to discover. Therefore, newbies often raise the question which parts of the network gets actually discovered and how to influence the discovery scope. How do I exclude parts of the network? How can I exclude devices that I am not[...]
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Improved Troubleshooting when documenting networks

Improve network inventory data quality
JDisc Discovery is a network inventory and documentation software that scans all kind of devices and determines hardware- and software information. The software gets used by IT administrators that use the software on a day-by-day basis, but also by network consultants that run the software occasionally on their projects. IT administrators usually have a deep[...]
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Great Performance Improvements when Documenting Remote Computers

As mentioned in the previous post, creating a network documentation for remote computers and sites is not that easy. Inefficient protocols can make an effective discovery of remote sites even impossible, because network delays and limited bandwidth causes them to fail. JDisc Discovery can make use of its remote login capability to tunnel inefficient protocols[...]
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