Dear JDisc friends, after a development phase of approximately nine months, we are glad to announce a new member of our JDisc Discovery product family. Together with the new major release JDisc Discovery 3.3, we introduce the Security Add-On. The third highlight is the excellent collaboration with SHI. The Security Add-On covers security and permission…
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Dear JDisc friends, today, I would like to talk about how JDisc Discovery remembers access credentials once they have been successfully tested. Access credentials are essential for a high quality network discovery result. Without access credentials, the data quality will be very poor. Therefore, JDisc allows users to enter access credentials for many different protocols.…
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Wie eine Inventarisierungssoftware Risiken und Auswirkungen einer Cyberattacke wie die auf den deutschen Bundestag minimieren kann Viele dürften es in der Presse verfolgt haben. Ein Hackerangriff auf das Netzwerk und die Rechner des Deutschen Bundestags hat für viel Wirbel und Empörung bis in die höchsten Regierungskreise gesorgt. Unbekannten Angreifern ist es gelungen, in großem…
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Dear JDisc friends, today I’d like to talk about how to select a network discovery tool and how JDisc approaches prospects and I guess that is what makes the difference! Selecting a network discovery tool is a time consuming and not trivial task. Once you start contacting vendor, they start to start the selling machine…
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Dear JDisc Friends, virtualization is a commodity today and VMware is definitely one of the big players in this arena. JDisc has been able to scan VMware ESX(i) servers since its beginnings and we are able to get detailed hardware and software information as well as the list of virtual machines running on the physical…
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Hi JDisc friends, my name is Pedram Khoshdani. I´m a new member of JDisc and happy to be onboard. In your daily digital life, you definitely have come across situations where you tell yourself how great it could be if a software had some small functionality to make your life whole lot easier. This functionality…
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Dear JDisc friends, apart from the major changes and shiny new features, we are constantly adding new smaller enhancements and features to our product. Of couse, all of them appear within the release notes. But honestly, who’s reading release notes? I don’t :-). Most of the time, they are pretty boring to read and unfortunately,…
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Dear JDisc friends, today, I am going to talk a little bit on how we improve our database discovery. So far, JDisc Discovery scans so called application instances. Application instances can be instances of databases, web servers or application servers. One our our recent prospects requested to scan the port for each database instance. Furthermore…
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Dear JDisc Friends, some time passed by since I wrote my last blog entry. This time, I would like to present a new feature that cares about devices that have been removed from the network. Devices are aging as we do and they get removed from the network after their lifetime. JDisc Discovery currently does…
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Hello JDisc friends, back from the CeBIT 2015, I would like to share my experiences. This was the first time that we presenting our products at the CeBIT and it was a great success for us. Together with our partners Synetics (CMDB i-doit), G-Media (providing services for our solutions) it-novum (ITSM solutions) and procilon (security…
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