New Feature: Antivirus Software Discovery

Dear JDisc friends, based on several customer enhancement requests, we have extended our Security Add-On to scan the list of installed Antivirus software together with its enabled state and its updated state. The updated state defines whether the Antivirus definition files are up-to-date. This new feature offers a good overview over the Antivirus software used[...]
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JDisc Discovery & i-doit CMDB – 1 Solution, 2 Parts

JDisc Discovery & i-doit CMDB
i-doit is a CMDB solution with many add-ons for use cases such as IT service management, IT documentation, IT asset management and Information security management system (ISMS). Since many years, JDisc and i-doit have a close partnership to provide the capabilities of JDisc Discovery to i-doit customers. Both applications are best-of-class solutions in their space[...]
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Network Creation Policy

Dear JDisc users, We frequently get feedback from our users that JDisc Discovery creates IP4 networks that don’t exist. So what’s the reason for that? The reason is that JDisc Discovery tries to determine all IP addresses and subnet masks for a device. The IP address, together with the subnet mask, defines the IP4 network[...]
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LLDP-MED – Improved Discovery

Network traffic generated by the discovery
Dear JDisc friends,JDisc Discovery uses a lot of different protocols and techniques to identify as many devices on the network as possible. A customer notified us that there is a protocol that is named LLDP-MED (LLDP – Media Endpoint Devices). LLDP-MED is an extension of the frequently used LLDP protocol on many switches to exchange[...]
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New Series of Use Case Videos

We start a new series of videos on our JDisc Youtube channel on different use cases, where discovery plays an integral role. These videos should serve as a source of inspiration of how important it is to know what you got in an IT environment, the so called IT asset management. We begin with a[...]
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New User Interface – Alpha Version

Dear JDisc friends,we are working already for quite a while about our new browser-based user interface. The new user interface is meant as an early developer preview or alpha version. Its purpose is to provide an impression of what the new UI will look like. Furthermore, we want to offer customers the possibility of early[...]
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Hetzner Cloud Support

Dear JDisc friends, we just added the support for the popular German Hetzner cloud. When you provide an API key, then we read information about all your VMs using Hetzner’s REST API. Besides the Azure, AWS, and Cisco Meraki cloud, this is not the forth cloud technology which JDisc Discovery supports. We get information about[...]
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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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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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