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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Dear JDisc friends, with the coming build 5136, we have implemented a new feature to the Security and Dependency Mapping Add-On. As you might know, the Dependency Add-On detects the list of open TCP/IP and UDP ports. A customer asked us whether we could get information about the SSL certificates and encryption algorithms for each…
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Hello JDisc Friends, With our JDisc Discovery built-in reports and your custom reports, you have achieved a very good understanding of your IT landscape. But is it enough? In order to help you in this direction, we have just implemented in our new Web UI the overview dashboard. In this dashboard, it is possible to…
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Dear JDisc user, have you already been asked by your IT security department not to use local or domain users with administrator rights on Windows computers for network discovery? Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t offer Linux-like privilege elevation methods like SU or SUDO. Of course, security folks want you to embrace the principle of least privilege (PoLP)…
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Dear JDisc users, do you feel like the guy in the image when talking to support hotlines? Are you playing ticket ping pong with the support engineer who is permanently asking for new log files or further information? This troubleshooting process can be very time-consuming and frustrating on both sides. At JDisc, we have always…
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Dear JDisc users, As usual, we are constantly enhancing our data collection capabilities. This time, we have enhanced our security add-on to collect information about the SSH cipher, MAC, and key-exchange algorithms. When the security add-on is installed and licensed, the discovery configuration dialog offers a new setting for security-related data collections. When JDisc Discovery…
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Dear JDisc friends, We are continuously improving our scanning capabilities. Starting with build 5130, we will support Red Hat’s oVirt virtualization management software (starting with version 4). oVirt is similar to VMware’s VCenter. oVirt lets you define virtual datacenters, clusters and assign physical servers to the clusters. The support also includes Oracle’s Virtualization Management software…
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ObjectGears is a new integration partner with JDisc. Transfer data from JDisc Discovery into the ObjectGears CMDB.
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Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly adding new protocols to improve device detection. The upcoming version (5106) will add two new main protocols to discover IoT devices: mDNS (Multicast DNS) UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) What is mDNS and UPnP? Home automation and IoT devices often support the mDNS and UPnP protocols to publish their…
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JDisc Discovery automatically provides you with a lot of information on your IT infrastructure. It helps you get an entire overview of your devices and their current status. JDisc Discovery extends this functionality in short release cycles. Safety has the highest priority. With the last big feature (browser extension) the usability and accessibility are increasing…
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Dear JDisc friends, as you already know, we have executed a survey about our new Web UI, during the period January-February 2022. Our primary objectives were to: Get feedback on the current state of our new Web UI Get feedback about missing features Evaluate our current feedback channels Get general feedback about JDisc Discovery Below…
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