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Measurement Add-On

  Dear JDisc friends, we have completed our new product “Measurement Add-On” with the new major release JDisc Discovery 5.0. The goal of that product is to measure and report utilization data over time. This data is extremely useful for consolidation or cloud migration projects. In contrast to network monitoring tools, we focus on documenting[...]
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Scanning Devices via a slow network connection? Here is the solution….

slow network
Dear JDisc Discovery friends, the network connection speed can be an issue whenever you are scanning networks that spread over multiple sites. JDisc Discovery scans devices in parallel. The number of concurrent device discoveries can be configured within the discovery configuration dialog. However, this setting is a global one and is valid for all networks[...]
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Do you know which devices we support?

Supported Discovered Devices
Dear JDisc friends, do you know which devices JDisc Discovery is able to identify? No? We didn’t know that either :-). Over the last couple of years, we have added so many new devices (many of them SNMP based devices) so that we couldn’t easily say whether we can identify a particular device or not.[...]
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Getting Snapshot Information for VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix Xen Server

Virtual Machine Snapshots
Dear JDisc friends, we have added a new feature to collect snapshot information for virtual machines. In virtual environments, users can create so called snapshots for their virtual machines. A snapshot saves a virtual machine’s the disk and memory configuration. Later you can revert to a saved snapshot. That makes it easy to revert to[...]
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Getting ready for the Cloud with our Measurement Add-On

Dear JDisc friends, you might have noticed in our release notes that we are working on a measurement add-on. The measurement add-on will collect measurement data such as CPU load, disk io, network io etc. from servers, printed pages and toner/ink usage from printers, power consumption from PDUs, and environment information such as temperature or[...]
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Discovery using a Jumphost

Dear JDisc friends, in many cases, firewalls are protecting specific areas of your network. Administrators often use so called jumphosts in order to access devices behind the firewall. They connect first to the jumphost and then use the jumphost to connect to the servers behind the firewall. JDisc Discovery lets you configure a jumphost to scan[...]
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News Feature: Scheduled Task Discovery

Dear JDisc friends, starting with build 4063, we collect the list of scheduled tasks for Windows computers. The scheduled tasks appear within the device details with detailed information about the last execution time, the last execution result, the triggers for the scheduled task and its actions. Furthermore, users can filter by scheduled task information using[...]
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Network Ping Improvements

The actual scope for a network inventory scan
Dear JDisc friends, we got some complaints about the speed of the ping sweep in the past. Especially when pinging large networks which are only sparsely populated. But first some background on the current implementation. We are using Windows API calls for the ping. The API call accepts up to 64 IP addresses to ping[...]
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ISCSI Discovery

Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly improving the discovery. Right now, one of our focus areas is to improve the discovery in the storage area. As a first new feature in this focus area, we scan the ISCSI initiators, targets and sessions. That provides detailed information about which servers uses what ISCSI target on what[...]
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New Feature: Dependency Mapping Add-On – Process Mapping

dependency mapping process mapping
Dear JDisc friends, our Dependency Mapping Add-On can determine the list of open TCP/UDP ports together with the TCP/IP connections. For quite a while, we had the idea to be more precise on the TCP/UDP ports and connections. Right now, we can get the information that there is a communication between device ‘A’ on port[...]
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