Dear JDisc friends, starting with build 4063, we collect the list of scheduled tasks for Windows computers. The scheduled tasks appear within the device details with detailed information about the last execution time, the last execution result, the triggers for the scheduled task and its actions. Furthermore, users can filter by scheduled task information using…
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Dear JDisc friends, we got some complaints about the speed of the ping sweep in the past. Especially when pinging large networks which are only sparsely populated. But first some background on the current implementation. We are using Windows API calls for the ping. The API call accepts up to 64 IP addresses to ping…
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Dear JDisc friends, with build 4057, we have further improved the discovery of fibre channel interfaces. We determine the list of fibre channel interfaces for VMware ESX servers or for vcenter installations. In the future, we are going to add the fibre channel interface discovery to more devices as we find them. Furthermore, we enhanced…
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Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly improving the discovery. Right now, one of our focus areas is to improve the discovery in the storage area. As a first new feature in this focus area, we scan the ISCSI initiators, targets and sessions. That provides detailed information about which servers uses what ISCSI target on what…
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Dear JDisc friends, our Dependency Mapping Add-On can determine the list of open TCP/UDP ports together with the TCP/IP connections. Since quite a while, we had the idea to be more precise on the TCP/UDP ports and connections. Right now, we can get the information that there is a communication between a device ‘A’ on…
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Dear JDisc friends, JDisc Discovery detects wireless LANs and access points since quite a while. Whenever you scan a Windows or MAC computer with a wireless LAN card, then we are getting the list of available WLANs (SSIDs) together with their access points. However you might get unwanted wireless lans into your list depending on…
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Dear JDisc users, our Device History Add-On highlights changes on devices which occur over time. This very useful feature to track changes was only applicable on a device level. Up to now, it was not possible to list all devices where a change occurred in the operating system information or any other device information. We…
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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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