Dear JDisc friends, first of all I wish everybody a happy new year 2021! JDisc Discovery supports since its beginnings the collection of custom attributes via scripts and reading registry keys. The custom attribute data collection is often used by customers to collect information that JDisc Discovery does not collect out-of-the-box. However, some customers requested…
Dear JDisc friends,JDisc Discovery uses a lot of different protocols and techniques to identify as many devices on the network as possible. A customer notified us that there is a protocol that is named LLDP-MED (LLDP – Media Endpoint Devices). LLDP-MED is an extension of the frequently used LLDP protocol on many switches to exchange…
Dear JDisc friends,we are working already for quite a while about our new browser-based user interface. The new user interface is meant as an early developer preview or alpha version. Its purpose is to provide an impression of what the new UI will look like. Furthermore, we want to offer customers the possibility of early…
Dear JDisc friends, we just added the support for the popular German Hetzner cloud. When you provide an API key, then we read information about all your VMs using Hetzner’s REST API. Besides the Azure, AWS, and Cisco Meraki cloud, this is not the forth cloud technology which JDisc Discovery supports. We get information about…
Dear JDisc friends, have you also been confused annoyed by all the different report windows, when working with JDisc Discovery? JDisc Discovery opens a new Window whenever you navigate from one report to another. This can be pretty confusing since you end up easily with more than ten Windows open. In order to simplify usage,…
Dear JDisc friends, you might know, that we are currently working on the new browser-based user interface. We are going to use modern technologies to make the user interface as responsive as possible. Technology-wise, we need to implement a REST interface for our application. The REST interface is being used to communicate between the JDisc…
Dear JDisc friends, upon customer request, we have enhanced the data collection to gather IP configuration data. The upcoming build will get information about the IP configuration for each network interface. The IP configuration information includes DHCP server configuration including lease start and lease expiration date configured DNS servers together with the DNS suffix search…
Dear JDisc friends, as you might know, Oracle has recently changed its license terms for Java usage. Most people think of the Java virtual machine as free software. However, that was not always true and is definitely not true with Oracle’s recent changes.In the good old days, you just went to the Java page and…
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…
