VLANs are a common technology to provide a segmentation for local area networks. Creating different segments contributes to address issues such as security or scalability. Network traffic can be separated by VLANs even if devices are connected to the same switch. The switch also assures that broadcast in one VLAN dooes not get forwarded to…
JDisc Discovery is pretty interesting for IT consulting and service providers. It’s cost effective and flexible project license is the key for our consulting partners. Currently, we are working on making our offer even more appealing. So far, JDisc did a great job of discovering a customers network. It gathers all plenty of hardware- and…
No one likes to wait for new features or bugfixes. Therefore, JDisc frequently releases minor updates every four to six weeks. This time, the new build includes some bugfixes within the network topology resultion, some enhancements, that help when dealing with license management projects and the detection of locally attached printers, scanners and card readers.…
Again, one of our customers had an idea that easy to implement, but adds a huge benefit. Within our network inventory solution, a user can delete devices from the database. However when you run the discovery again, the device gets discovered again and added to the database. Although it is possible to define IP exclusion…
Recently, we got the question request from a retail company whether or not we could discover their local receipt printers, barcode scanners and pin pads or card readers. Those devices are usually attached to their POS system. Luckily, it turned out that the POS systems are running Microsoft Windows and therefore, we didn’t expect many…
JDisc has released version 2.8 of its network inventory and documentation software. The new release includes as usual support for new devices (Alcatel and some new Cisco switches), but also adds completely new features. This release, we improved the discovery capabilities for Microsoft Active Directory environments. While previous releases had a pretty good support for…
Especially new users are not fully aware of the power how JDisc finds new addreses to discover. Therefore, newbies often raise the question which parts of the network gets actually discovered and how to influence the discovery scope. How do I exclude parts of the network? How can I exclude devices that I am not…
We are proud to announce the partnership with blue turtle technologies, one of the leading South African technology management companies focused on IT technology and service management. Blue Turtle provide tangible benefits by optimising the performance, reliability and efficiency of our customers’ IT environments, through leveraging existing IT investments and supporting the cost-effective delivery of…
In my previous post about simple ideas, I was talking about the custom attribute collection for VMware. Now, the implementation is done and this new feature becomes part of the coming release 2.8! As usual, it was not that easy as we thought in the beginning. But finally, our R&D team got the job done.…
Recently, one of our partners came back from a prospect and asked whether we can discover VMware annotations and custom attributes. On a VMware ESX(i) server, a user can add an annotation for each virtual machine describing its purpose. With VMware vCenter a user can add as many custom attributes to a VM. Custom attributes…
