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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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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Oracle LMS

software license management
Dear JDisc users, when you are using Oracle database installations, then you are definitely aware of the licensing issues. Oracle’s licensing is pretty complex and complicated. When your company is large enough, then Oracle might announce an Oracle software audit. Companies who have gone through that know, that this is not a fun task. Oracle[...]
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Scanning Devices via a slow network connection? Here is the solution….

slow network
Dear JDisc Discovery friends, the network connection speed can be an issue whenever you are scanning networks that spread over multiple sites. JDisc Discovery scans devices in parallel. The number of concurrent device discoveries can be configured within the discovery configuration dialog. However, this setting is a global one and is valid for all networks[...]
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Getting Snapshot Information for VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix Xen Server

Virtual Machine Snapshots
Dear JDisc friends, we have added a new feature to collect snapshot information for virtual machines. In virtual environments, users can create so called snapshots for their virtual machines. A snapshot saves a virtual machine’s the disk and memory configuration. Later you can revert to a saved snapshot. That makes it easy to revert to[...]
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Showing Differences for Devices

Showing differences for devices
Dear JDisc users, our Device History Add-On highlights changes on devices which occur over time. This very useful feature to track changes was only applicable on a device level. Up to now, it was not possible to list all devices where a change occurred in the operating system information or any other device information. We[...]
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JDisc Discovery 4.0 uses 64 Bit!

JDisc Discovery in 64 bit
Dear JDisc friends, we are happy to announce our first 64 bit JDisc Discovery product. With version 4.0, JDisc Discovery can utilize more memory than before. This enables more concurrent device discoveries and thus speeds up the discovery process. The second major features is a new and simplified installation procedure. Installing and updating JDisc Discovery[...]
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Major Release: JDisc Discovery 3.4

New Major Release 3.4 today we published our new major release 3.4. We constantly enhance our products with smaller enhancements. Typically, we create a new build with bug fixes and smaller enhancements every week. Check out our release notes if you are interested in the details. At least once a year, we add new major[...]
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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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