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, starting with build 4063, we collect the list of scheduled tasks for Windows computers. The scheduled tasks appear within the device details with detailed information about the last execution time, the last execution result, the triggers for the scheduled task and its actions. Furthermore, users can filter by scheduled task information using…
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…
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…
Dear JDisc friends, today’s build comes with a new major feature. We are going to collect information about the SIM card and the corresponding mobile interface. Whenever a mobile connection is active, we collect the following information for the mobile interfaces: modem model modem manufacturer connection class (GSM, UTMS, LTE, ..) the SIM card’s phone…
Dear JDisc friends, in order to simplify the Windows installation process, most hardware vendors provide the OEM license key within the computer’s BIOS. We have enhanced our device discovery in order to retrieve the stored license key. We store the license key attached to the BIOS firmware object. The license key is also available within…
Dear JDisc friends, nowadays, virtual machines can be migrated with nearly no downtime from one physical server to another. But do you really know what that implies to your license compliance? Most users are not aware of license implications caused by moving VMs around. For instance, Microsoft only allows the migration of servers with volume…