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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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JDisc Discovery is the Swiss Knife when it comes to network inventory and documentation. First, we just want to thank all JDisc users for their feedback. Many new ideas and enhancements are direct input from our customers. Today, we released a new maintenace release with minor improvements and some bugfixes. We’re always looking forward getting…
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As announced, our development team works on the visualization of WLANs within the network map. We already have a first implementation that shows wireless lans as clouds with a WLAN icon. WLAN connections are dotted lines instead of solid lines for ethernet connections. A checkbox within the toolbar lets users decide whether to show or…
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Today, we released our maintenance release for version 3.0. As usual, the release comes with a bunch of new features and some bugfixes. Users testing the software often provide feedback on how to improve the software. Getting the duplex mode for network interfaces is just another example. A user testing our software was asking: “Can…
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Recently, we have released JDisc Discovery 3.0. So you might ask yourself what will be coming next… We are currently working on some minor enhancements from some customers such as collecting the duplex mode for network interfaces. As usual, we are also continuesly adding new devices that we support. But we will also add additional…
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