This feature has been made in the Provence, the nicest place to develop software… We usually present upcoming features in order to get early feedback from our customers. That really helps us to improve the usability and listen to your needs. This time, I am presenting a feature that has been requested from several customers…
Nowadays, server virtualization is commonly used in companies of any size starting from small companies to large data centers. Nearly all professional virtualization technologies support the idea of a resource pool. Image a resource pool as a set of servers and diskspace that can be freely used by virtual machines within the pool. The resource…
Take care when looking at network discovery tools. Many vendors promise to collect zillions of different device attributes. But do you really need them all? Who cares which keyboard is connected to a PC or what mouse you are using? When it comes to network discovery tools, the data quality is more important than the…
JDisc’s release train arrived today at version 3.1! Just right in time to it’s fifth anniversary, we publish release 3.1 of our network inventory and documentation solution “JDisc Discovery”. The new release has three major focus areas: Core Enhancements: There are many different enhancements that made its way into our core product. JDisc identifies VirtualBox…
Dear JDisc friends, sometimes a beer in a pub is the best source for new ideas. I was meeting with a former HP colleague in a pub in Herrenberg (Google if you want to know where it is 🙂 and we were talking what we have been doing since we left HP. I was talking…
Dear JDisc friends, first let me wish you all a happy new year. Hope you had an excellent start into 2014. The first topic in our blog for this year is about supportability. Supportability is often ignored by software developers and architects. One of the reasons might be, that is does not add any immediate…
Redundancy is a key concept for protecting critical environments against single points of failures. Server cluster assure the availability of critical applications on the corporate network. However, redundancy doesn’t help if every component of a critical system is designed in a redundant manner. For network infrastructure devices such as switches and routers, there are protocols…
Having an up-to-date network documentation is the key for many IT processes. Common solutions such as CMDB, helpdesk or service management solutions can only operate efficiently, if the underlying data is up-to-date. That’s where network inventory and discovery solutions enter the game. Their goal is to harvest as much information automatically as possible. In most…
This new feature made it into the JDisc Discovery 3.0. Enterprise routers and switches often have module slots for extension modules. Those modules often provide new high speed network ports such as 10GB ethernet uplinks. Of course, administrators want to know which modules are part of a switch or router. JDisc Discovery did collect this…
Today, we have just a small menu for you. Nothing big, just a maintenance release with some minor bugfixes and enhancements. This will be the last maintenance release before we are going to release version 3.1. This maintenance release focuses on the discovery of new devices and on improvements of existing functionality. Application Server…