Dear JDisc users, Cisco offers with Meraki a cloud-based management solution for your switches and access points. Although it is still possible to detect the switches and access points using the SNMP protocol some information (such as the serial number for access points) is only available through the portal. Therefore, we have implemented access to…
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…
Dear JDisc friends, we have completed our new product “Measurement Add-On” with the new major release JDisc Discovery 5.0. The goal of that product is to measure and report utilization data over time. This data is extremely useful for consolidation or cloud migration projects. In contrast to network monitoring tools, we focus on documenting and…
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…
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…
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…
Dear JDisc friends, do you know which devices JDisc Discovery is able to identify? No? We didn’t know that either :-). Over the last couple of years, we have added so many new devices (many of them SNMP based devices) so that we couldn’t easily say whether we can identify a particular device or not.…
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…
Dear JDisc friends, you might have noticed in our release notes that we are working on a measurement add-on. The measurement add-on will collect measurement data such as CPU load, disk io, network io etc. from servers, printed pages and toner/ink usage from printers, power consumption from PDUs, and environment information such as temperature or…
Dear JDisc friends, in many cases, firewalls are protecting specific areas of your network. Administrators often use so called jumphosts in order to access devices behind the firewall. They connect first to the jumphost and then use the jumphost to connect to the servers behind the firewall. JDisc Discovery lets you configure a jumphost to scan…
