Dear JDisc Discovery users, after adding support for the Microsoft Azure cloud, we worked on integrating the Amazon AWS cloud in JDisc Discovery. Build 5001 supports the discovery of Amazon AWS accounts. In the first step, we just check for virtual machines resources within the EC2. Later, we will add more AWS services on request…
Dear JDisc users, when you are using Oracle database installations, then you are definitely aware of the licensing issues. Oracle’s licensing is pretty complex and complicated. When your company is large enough, then Oracle might announce an Oracle software audit. Companies who have gone through that know, that this is not a fun task. Oracle…
Dear JDisc friends, do you know which devices JDisc Discovery is able to identify? No? We didn’t know that either :-). Over the last couple of years, we have added so many new devices (many of them SNMP based devices) so that we couldn’t easily say whether we can identify a particular device or not.…
Dear JDisc friends, we have added a new feature to collect snapshot information for virtual machines. In virtual environments, users can create so called snapshots for their virtual machines. A snapshot saves a virtual machine’s the disk and memory configuration. Later you can revert to a saved snapshot. That makes it easy to revert to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hello JDisc Friends, recently, one of our prospects asked whether we’re able to scan FreeBSD servers. Unfortunately, the answer was no at that point in time. But our developers got interested in supporting this platform and started a quick investigation. FreeBSD is just yet another operating system of the Unix family. So they installed FreeBSD…
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…
