FAQ

All reports can be exported either to CSV (comma separated values) or Microsoft Excel documents. Use the icons in the toolbar of the report window.

JDisc Discovery has a powerful grouping concept. Groups can be defined in a hierarchical manner, plus conditions for groups can be defined. Whenever a device is discovered, it is matched against the group conditions. On success, it will be automatically assigned to the group. There is no manual interaction involved apart from defining the conditions.

The group conditions include:

• Matches for network membership
• Matches for membership in an IP address range
• Matches for a Windows domain membership
• Matches for membership within organizational units of a Microsoft Active Directory
• Hostname matches
• Manufacturer matches
• Device model matches
• Device types matches

You can schedule automatic export of nearly all reports. For this, you schedule the time and the target directory for your reports. JDisc Discovery executes those reports automatically and stores them under  the defined target directory.

JDisc Discovery offers a powerful report generator. You can use it to generate your own individual reports by:

1. defining the relevant attributes
2. defining possible restrictions on attributes
3. defining the appearance / sequence of the columns in your individual report.

You can use nearly all device properties (such as model, manufacturer, applications, etc.) in our custom reports.

Consider, for instance, that you would like to replace your slow old PCs with new ones. Therefore, you are looking for all laptops with a processor speed less than 1 GHz. Limiting the device type to “Laptop” excludes all devices which are not classified as laptop. Limiting the processor speed to “<1 GHz” excludes all modern laptops.

Custom reports can be saved for later re-use.