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Too many open Windows Error – Split Windows!

Dear JDisc friends, have you also been confused annoyed by all the different report windows, when working with JDisc Discovery? JDisc Discovery opens a new Window whenever you navigate from one report to another. This can be pretty confusing since you end up easily with more than ten Windows open. In order to simplify usage,[...]
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JDisc Discovery API

Dear JDisc friends, you might know, that we are currently working on the new browser-based user interface. We are going to use modern technologies to make the user interface as responsive as possible. Technology-wise, we need to implement a REST interface for our application. The REST interface is being used to communicate between the JDisc[...]
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Collecting IP Configuration

Dear JDisc friends, upon customer request, we have enhanced the data collection to gather IP configuration data. The upcoming build will get information about the IP configuration for each network interface. The IP configuration information includes DHCP server configuration including lease start and lease expiration date configured DNS servers together with the DNS suffix search[...]
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Disable Discovery Protocols for selected Devices

Dear JDisc friends, we are permanently improving our software. This time, we got requests from customers that our discovery is creating security alerts on specific devices when trying to connect via SSH or other protocols. Especially firewalls don’t like when applications try to connect via SSH. Wouldn’t it be cool to define that remote login[...]
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Custom Reports using SQL

Dear JDisc friends, you might have been using our custom reports quite often. The custom reports are in most cases pretty easy to configure. A wizard guides you through the list of available fields and you might add conditions or filter criteria as needed. However, the report wizard covers most requirements, but you cannot express[...]
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Java Installations and License Risks

Dear JDisc friends, as you might know, Oracle has recently changed its license terms for Java usage. Most people think of the Java virtual machine as free software. However, that was not always true and is definitely not true with Oracle’s recent changes.In the good old days, you just went to the Java page and[...]
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DLLs and Shared Libraries

DLL
Dear JDisc friends, did you know that you can inject a DLL into every process that runs on your Windows computer? If not, then you might check out this Wikipedia link! The DLL will be injected into every process sending you a notice. You will simply not notice the DLL injection. Therefore, we have added[...]
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Amazon AWS Discovery

Dear JDisc Discovery users, after adding support for the Microsoft Azure cloud, we worked on integrating the Amazon AWS cloud in JDisc Discovery. Build 5001 supports the discovery of Amazon AWS accounts. In the first step, we just check for virtual machines resources within the EC2. Later, we will add more AWS services on request[...]
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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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Directory Logon Scanning: How to discover Computers that are only sporadically connected to the Network?

Dear JDisc friends,we have now completed a new feature that we have announced for quite some time, but that has now be completed in the new major release JDisc Discovery 5.0. The new feature is called Directory Logon Scanning. So what is the new feature all about. One of the major challenges for agent-less discovery[...]
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