Dear JDisc friends, with build 4057, we have further improved the discovery of fibre channel interfaces. We determine the list of fibre channel interfaces for VMware ESX servers or for vcenter installations. In the future, we are going to add the fibre channel interface discovery to more devices as we find them. Furthermore, we enhanced…
Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly improving the discovery. Right now, one of our focus areas is to improve the discovery in the storage area. As a first new feature in this focus area, we scan the ISCSI initiators, targets and sessions. That provides detailed information about which servers uses what ISCSI target on what…
Dear JDisc friends, our Dependency Mapping Add-On can determine the list of open TCP/UDP ports together with the TCP/IP connections. Since quite a while, we had the idea to be more precise on the TCP/UDP ports and connections. Right now, we can get the information that there is a communication between a device ‘A’ on…
Dear JDisc friends, JDisc Discovery detects wireless LANs and access points since quite a while. Whenever you scan a Windows or MAC computer with a wireless LAN card, then we are getting the list of available WLANs (SSIDs) together with their access points. However you might get unwanted wireless lans into your list depending on…
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…
Dear JDisc friends, when JDisc Discovery connects via secure shell (SSH) to a device then the device’s SSH agent returns its remote identification string – even if the access credentials do not match. The remote identification string usually contains the vendor or the SSH service on the device and its version. In the past, JDisc…
Dear JDisc friends, a question that comes up very often is how to limit the discovery scope. JDisc Discovery has been designed to find as many devices as possible. A while ago, we have created a blog entry which discusses what the scope of a discovery actually is. Refer to this blog entry for a…
Dear JDisc friends, it has been a while since the last blog post. In fact, we have added a lot of new features that you might not be aware of. This blog post just reports the most prominent enhancements. Refer to our release notes for more details. The most prominent and long awaited features is…
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…
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 bugfixes 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 features…
