Dear JDisc friends, when JDisc Discovery connects via secure shell (SSH) to a device then the device’s SSH agent returns its remote identification string – even if the access credentials do not match. The remote identification string usually contains the vendor or the SSH service on the device and its version. In the past, JDisc…
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Dear JDisc friends, a question that comes up very often is how to limit the discovery scope. JDisc Discovery has been designed to find as many devices as possible. A while ago, we have created a blog entry which discusses what the scope of a discovery actually is. Refer to this blog entry for a…
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Dear JDisc friends, it has been a while since the last blog post. In fact, we have added a lot of new features that you might not be aware of. This blog post just reports the most prominent enhancements. Refer to our release notes for more details. The most prominent and long awaited features is…
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Dear JDisc friends, we are happy to announce our first 64 bit JDisc Discovery product. With version 4.0, JDisc Discovery can utilize more memory than before. This enables more concurrent device discoveries and thus speeds up the discovery process. The second major features is a new and simplified installation procedure. Installing and updating JDisc Discovery…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Dear JDisc friends, today, I would like to cover a topic which has been causing questions and problems for quite a while. Today, we are talking about how to configure Windows accounts in order to scan Windows servers and clients. JDisc Discovery always tries to minimize login attempts with username/password pairs. Otherwise intrusion detection systems…
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Dear JDisc friends, as you may be also aware, virtualizations have come a long way to help isolating different processes running on a single machine. Two of the most well known ones are LXC and Docker containers. From build 3360, Inventory is equipped with LXC and Docker discovery feature where the status, IP addresses…
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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…
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