Hello JDisc Friends, With our JDisc Discovery built-in reports and your custom reports, you have achieved a very good understanding of your IT landscape. But is it enough? In order to help you in this direction, we have just implemented in our new Web UI the overview dashboard. In this dashboard, it is possible to…
Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly adding new protocols to improve device detection. The upcoming version (5106) will add two new main protocols to discover IoT devices: mDNS (Multicast DNS) UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) What is mDNS and UPnP? Home automation and IoT devices often support the mDNS and UPnP protocols to publish their…
JDisc Discovery automatically provides you with a lot of information on your IT infrastructure. It helps you get an entire overview of your devices and their current status. JDisc Discovery extends this functionality in short release cycles. Safety has the highest priority. With the last big feature (browser extension) the usability and accessibility are increasing…
Dear JDisc friends, as you already know, we have executed a survey about our new Web UI, during the period January-February 2022. Our primary objectives were to: Get feedback on the current state of our new Web UI Get feedback about missing features Evaluate our current feedback channels Get general feedback about JDisc Discovery Below…
Communication with prospects, partners and customers are one of the most important pillars JDisc relies on. But not only the personal contact and the associated service are relevant here. JDisc nowadays also relies on diverse and modern communication channels, which we would like to introduce in more detail. Classically, customers and interested parties have the…
Dear JDisc friends, It has been a long time since the last update on the progress of our new JDisc Discovery Web UI. However, this does not mean that we paused working on it. On the contrary, you may have already noticed – if you are following our release notes or if you are subscribed…
What has network discovery and data quality to do with systems thinking? If you’re wondering now what is systems thinking and anyhow what is the author talking about? Then take the time and read on. We would delve today into a slightly philosophical contemplation about relations in the large and in the small. Network discovery…
IT Service Management (ITSM) needs reliable and current data, be it for service monitoring, IT documentation or help desk systems. Therefore a reliable current network discovery with very good-quality is absolutely necessary. Like monitoring systems, a network discovery system needs privileged access to the monitored systems in the environment to fulfill its important function. Agent-less…
Dear JDisc friends, find the German translation from our long term partner i-doit: https://www.i-doit.com/blog/log4j-linux-skript-von-jdisc/ I think everyone is busy figuring out if any applications are affected by the log4j security issue. While this may be easy for commercial applications, the vulnerability can be difficult to find for custom applications that are hosted in your data…
Dear JDisc friends, we understand that storing your crown jewels (administrative accounts and passwords) in products like JDisc Discovery is not something that IT security departments really like. There is always the conflict between being as secure as possible and getting current inventory information (which often requires administrative accounts). Therefore, we implemented on request from…