J2EE application servers are very popular nowadays as they provide a scalable and stable platform for your enterprise scale applications. However administrators can easily loose control when departments deploy new applications or new J2EE servers. J2EE servers often do not use the platform’s standard installation procedures. Especially Oracle WebLogic and JBoss use either their own…
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At JDisc, we always provide sneak previews. This time, we look at a feature that will make it into our next major release 3.0. Our new WBEM/WMI Browser lets our users easily browse all available WMI information fow Windows computers and WBEM information for Unix computers and VMware Servers. As you might know, WMI is…
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Gärtringen, 12th June 2013, JDisc released today build 2925 of its network inventory and documentation solution “JDisc Discovery”. Build 2925 is a minor bugfix release containing the following changes and fixes. JDisc discovery detects now the interface speed for interfaces with more than 10GB per second correctly. Before, an integer value overflow in the standard…
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Gärtringen, 12th of June 2013, Licensing for enterprise class software can be very difficult and time consuming. The license cost does not only depend on the number of installations, but also on other factors such as installed memory, processors, number of total processor cores or the number of concurrent users. Do you really know whether…
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At JDisc, we do not like long update cycles. Customers need new features and bugfixes as soon as possible and not once or twice a year. That’s why we frequently release builds with new features and some bugfixes. Build 2923 concentrates on improvements for the networking add-on and on some bugfixes for very large environments.…
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We are happy to announce a new CMDB integration with i-doit from Synetics. Synectics offers a free open source and a commercial edition. Together with i-doit, we have created a tailored JDisc Discovery version called “JEDI” (JDisc Essential Discovery for i-doit). Current information discovered by JDisc can be easily imported into i-doit. The data import…
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We are glad that we could win Protogen, an Australian firm that offers services and innovative IT solutions to their clients, as value added reseller for our products. Protogen offers solutions in the area of business intelligence, collaboration systems, information architecture, CRM software solutions, and much more. With JDisc Discovery, Protogen offers a product in…
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I cannot stress often enough that the best source for new ideas are our customers and prospects. Recently, a prospect asked whether we could read the signal strengths that WLAN access points are sending with. Our standard answer to questions like “Can you collect information x from device y” is: Yes, if the device exposes…
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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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