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No Device Left Behind: Comprehensive Network Discovery
More Control. No Excel Chaos. That’s What You Can Count On.
Do you really know everything that’s connected to your network?
If you’re still tracking hardware and software licenses in endless spreadsheets, you know the problem: the data is already outdated by the time it’s entered. Add years of accumulated infrastructure changes and growing pressure from audits and compliance requirements such as NIS2, and keeping track becomes nearly impossible. Without accurate network inventory data, you risk security gaps caused by shadow IT and waste valuable budget on unused software licenses.
The good news? JDisc Discovery takes care of all of it for you.
Our intelligent IP scanner continuously scans your network, automatically discovering every device and every installed software application. The result is a complete and reliable IT inventory you can trust for license management, software rollouts, security initiatives, and audits.
But great software is only part of the story. What matters just as much to us is the support behind it. When you need help, you won’t be routed to an outsourced call center. Instead, you’ll speak directly with the people who build JDisc Discovery every day—our own developers and product experts.
Why IT Teams Trust JDisc for Network Inventory
Agentless & Hassle-Free
No complex software deployment required. JDisc Discovery is designed to perform network inventory and asset discovery without installing agents on your target systems. Just get started instead of spending days configuring. In many environments, you’ll be up and running within minutes, gaining immediate visibility into your IT infrastructure.
100% Vendor-Neutral
Whether it’s Windows workstations, Linux servers, switches, firewalls, cloud instances, or hidden IoT devices, JDisc Discovery works across virtually every technology environment. Our scanner communicates with a wide range of systems and automatically discovers every component of your IT infrastructure, giving you a complete and accurate view of your entire IT landscape.
See Dependencies at a Glance
JDisc Discovery goes beyond simple asset lists. It shows you how your IT infrastructure is connected and how systems depend on each other. Which device is connected to which switch port? Which virtual machine is running on which physical host? JDisc provides the answers instantly, helping you understand the relationships across your environment. So before you make a change, you’ll know exactly what could be affected.
Seamless CMDB Integration
With our modern GraphQL API and ready-to-use integrations, your network inventory data flows automatically to the systems that need it most—whether that’s i-doit or any other ITSM platform. Need a custom integration? In many cases, you can build it yourself using our well-documented API. And if that’s not an option, we’ll work directly with your CMDB vendor to create the integration together. Your data stays connected, consistent, and exactly where your IT processes need it.
The Foundation of Effective IT Asset Management
Professional network inventory is the first step toward a secure IT environment. Our philosophy is simple: you can only manage and protect what you truly know. JDisc Discovery provides a single, reliable source of truth for your IT processes by automatically discovering and documenting your entire infrastructure. From asset management and license compliance to security initiatives and audits, you’ll always have accurate data at your fingertips. And we’ll make sure it stays that way.
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Identify Security Risks Before They Become Problems: Unknown devices on the network, shadow IT, and endpoints running outdated operating systems create security risks no organization can afford to ignore. JDisc Discovery’s automated network inventory makes these vulnerabilities visible immediately, helping you strengthen security, maintain compliance, and stay prepared for audits.
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Take Control of Software Licensing Costs: Don’t pay for software nobody uses. JDisc Discovery provides the accurate inventory data needed for effective Software License Management (SLM). By identifying every installed application across your environment, you gain the visibility required to uncover over-licensing, avoid compliance risks, and optimize software spending.
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Plan IT Projects with Confidence: Preparing for a Windows upgrade, hardware refresh, or cloud migration? Reliable inventory data is the foundation of every successful IT project. With JDisc Discovery, you always know your current environment, allowing you to plan accurately, allocate resources efficiently, and avoid costly surprises.
More Than Just a Scan: Complete Visibility for Your IT Assets
Accurate results without complex deployment – that’s what JDisc Discovery is all about. Explore the key capabilities that simplify IT inventory management, eliminate blind spots, and give you complete visibility across your entire IT environment.
- Comprehensive Hardware and Software Visibility: JDisc Discovery goes beyond basic asset detection. It reliably identifies installed software across your environment while providing detailed hardware information, including CPU specifications, memory configuration, serial numbers, and much more.
- Complete Visibility Across Hybrid and Cloud Environments: Maintain a unified inventory across on-premises and cloud infrastructures. JDisc Discovery supports hybrid environments and integrates with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Active Directory & Microsoft Entra ID Integration: Connect JDisc Discovery seamlessly to your directory services and maintain centralized visibility into users, groups, and organizational structures across your IT environment.
- Flexible Data Exports: Export inventory data in the format that works best for you. Generate CSV or Excel exports quickly and easily for reporting, audits, integrations, or further analysis.
- Modular and Extensible: Tailor JDisc Discovery to your specific requirements with optional add-ons for security analysis, device history tracking, and specialized IT environments.
- Optional Zero-Footprint Agent: For highly secure or restricted environments, JDisc Discovery offers an optional temporary agent. It performs the required scan and removes itself completely afterward, leaving no permanent footprint on the target system.
We care. For Qualität. For Service.
What Makes Us Different:
- Support Directly from the Developers: Forget anonymous call queues and scripted responses. When you need help, you’ll have direct access to the people behind JDisc Discovery – the engineers and product experts who know the software inside and out.
- New Updates Every Week: We’re constantly improving JDisc Discovery. New features, enhancements, and updates are released regularly—and they’re all included at no additional cost for our customers.
- 100% In-House Development: We don’t outsource development. From coding and quality assurance to data handling and product strategy, everything is managed by our own team. That means greater security, faster innovation, and complete control over the quality of our software.
- Fast Device Support and Integration: Missing a device in your inventory? Because we develop JDisc Discovery ourselves, we can often add support for new hardware quickly and respond directly to customer requirements.
We want you to be able to rely on your network inventory – and on us. That’s our promise.
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FAQ: Your Questions About Automated Network Inventory with JDisc Discovery
JDisc Discovery is far more than a conventional IP scanner. It is a comprehensive network discovery tool that combines agentless or optionally agent-based network discovery with in-depth analysis of infrastructure, cloud services, and directories. These features enable you to create seamless network documentation and gain a complete overview of your entire IT landscape.
Key features at a glance:
- Automated network inventory with or without agents: reliably detects all devices without manual installation.
- Vendor-agnostic discovery: identifies devices and systems, regardless of vendor or platform.
- Detailed hardware and software inventory: our IP scanner provides comprehensive data for your IT asset management.
- Cloud discovery: provides full transparency for hybrid IT environments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
- Deep directory service integration: integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID.
- Visualizes network topologies: our IP scanner graphically displays complex network structures and dependencies (network topology discovery).
- Seamless API integration: enables easy connection to your CMDB and ITSM systems.
- Modular add-ons: provides advanced analytics for networking, security, and more.
- Flexible licensing models: adapts to meet your individual requirements.
- Secure data processing: ensures the highest level of security for the storage and transmission of your data.
To meet the diverse requirements for an IP scanner and network inventory, we offer flexible licensing models:
The project license
Our IP scanner is available to you on a monthly basis as a project license, including support from our project team. This license option is ideal for smaller networks or projects with clearly defined time frames.
The annual subscription
With an annual subscription, you can use our network tool for one year. Support from our project team is also included. You can, of course, also purchase annual licenses multiple times consecutively and adjust them as needed.
The lifetime license
With our lifetime license model, you can use JDisc Discovery for an unlimited time. This means you pay a one-time license fee and can use the network scanner for as long as you like!
Optionally, you can also purchase an additional support contract with us, which you can choose to have either for a limited time or indefinitely.
Our IP scanner is designed to detect an extremely wide range of devices, operating systems, and platforms to ensure a complete network inventory.
These include:
- Windows: all client editions (NT 4.0 editions, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11) and Windows Server 2003 through Windows Server 2025.
- Unix and Unix-based systems: all common Linux distributions, Apple macOS, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX.
- Virtualization technologies: VMware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix, Oracle VM Server, Xen, Sun VirtualBox, Sun Solaris Zones and LDoms, HP Integrity Virtual Machines.
- Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Cisco Meraki, Google Cloud Platform.
- Network devices and appliances: Cisco IOS/NX-OS, HPE/Aruba, firewalls, switches, routers, and storage systems (NetApp, Dell, HPE, etc.).
- IoT and specialized devices: detection via UPnP, mDNS, SNMP, or SSH.
If your system is not listed here, please feel free to contact us. We are sure to find a suitable solution for your IT environment.
We have intentionally kept the setup of our network scanner both simple and fast. As an agentless network discovery tool, there is no need for complex software installation on every single device. Thanks to the guided setup and minimal system requirements, JDisc Discovery is ready to use in just a few minutes. An initial scan for network inventory can be started immediately, so you often receive productive results on the very same day.
A modern IP scanner like JDisc Discovery is a central tool for network discovery, network documentation, and IT asset management. Its main task is to automatically detect, analyze, and document IT infrastructures.
Specifically, JDisc Discovery provides:
- Comprehensive device discovery: finds all IP-based devices, including connected peripherals such as monitors, docking stations, etc.
- Hardware and operating system analysis: identifies detailed hardware specifications and operating system versions.
- Records installed software and licenses as the basis for your IT asset management.
- Analysis of network structures: documents the physical and logical structure of your network.
- Inventory of hybrid environments: detects and documents virtualization and cloud resources.
- Visualization of network topologies: acts as a network topology scanner to graphically display communication relationships and system structures.
- Agentless operation: operates without installing agents on target systems; agent-based operation will be available as an option in the near future.
The data collected by our IP scanner forms the basis for up-to-date network documentation and effective IT asset management (ITAM). It can be reused in a variety of ways:
- Reports and dashboards: use integrated reporting functions for inventory, compliance, or management reports.
- Data exports: export data in formats such as CSV or Excel for further processing in external tools.
- API access (GraphQL): automatically access all inventory data to create your own scripts or integrations.
- CMDB and ITSM integration: use CMDB discovery to seamlessly transfer device data, software information, and relationship data to your CMDB, ticket system, or service management solution.
- Security and compliance processes: use the precise data for vulnerability analyses, audits, and your IT asset management and software license management.
We provide comprehensive and professional support to ensure you can fully leverage the potential of our IP scanner for your network inventory and network documentation.
- Support via email and ticket system: our experienced JDisc experts handle your inquiries in a structured and timely manner to quickly resolve any technical issues.
- Configuration check-ups and workshops: we offer comprehensive consulting to review and optimize your JDisc Discovery configuration. This service ensures that your scanning strategy and data quality are optimally tailored to suit your corporate environment.
Since we are constantly developing our software, we can respond extremely quickly to new requirements. However, if a device has not yet been recognized, we will integrate it for you in no time. Thanks to our weekly releases, we ensure that you won’t have to wait long.
No, JDisc Discovery operates entirely agent-free. This means you do not need to install or maintain any software permanently on your target systems. In the future, we will also be offering an optional agent for secure environments.
