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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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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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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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 – 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 2.8 – Build 2813 – New Features and some Bugfixes

Network Inventory Solution
No one likes to wait for new features or bugfixes. Therefore, JDisc frequently releases minor updates every four to six weeks. This time, the new build includes some bugfixes within the network topology resultion, some  enhancements, that help when dealing with license management projects and the detection of locally attached printers, scanners and card readers.[...]
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JDisc Discovery 2.7 has been released today…

Time for a new network documentation release
It’s time for a new release! We are proud to announce the version 2.7 of our network inventory and documentation solution JDisc Discovery. This release incorporates many features and ideas that I mentioned in some of my previous blog entries. New in release 2.7 is the possibility to compare two devices. This helps administrators to[...]
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Hidden Treasures – Part 1

Rule based suggestions for an improved discovery result
Dear JDisc friends, we think, that JDisc Discovery is a pretty cool network documentation product. I will present with “Hidden Treasures” some not so well known features within this blog and I hope that it’ll help to maximize the value created by JDisc. Starting a network inventory project is usually an iterative process. You start[...]
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JDisc Discovery 2.6 is released!

  We are happy to announce the new major release 2.6 of our network inventory and documentation solution “JDisc Discovery”! As usual, our development engineers added many new stunning features where most of them were inspired by discussions with our customers. The new features cover three main topics. 1. Tracking Changes The bigger networks grow,[...]
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