JDisc keeps on moving forward with its network inventory and documentation software JDisc Discovery and releases build 2921 after a two month development cycle. Our development delivered a bunch of new features, improvements, and some bug fixes. The changes affecct integrating common network troubleshooting tools, improvements within the network topology algorithm, support for new devices…
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JDisc Discovery has greatly improved its layer 2 topology detection by using the port forwarding database. A switch maintains a table of mac addresses that are connected to each port. When looking at all switches, we can detect the switch topology. However, in some situations, the mac forwarding information is not complete. Switches drop mac…
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JDisc has released a new version of its network inventory and documentation product JDisc Discovery. We have improved our products in three different areas. A new reporting mode enables IT consulting and service providers to leave a read-only version with the discovered data at the customer at no cost. JDisc extends its device detection with…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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