Dear JDisc friends, we are constantly adding new protocols to improve device detection. The upcoming version (5106) will add two new main protocols to discover IoT devices: mDNS (Multicast DNS) UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) What is mDNS and UPnP? Home automation and IoT devices often support the mDNS and UPnP protocols to publish their…
Dear JDisc friends,a frequently asked question that arises from customers and prospects is: how much traffic does the discovery put on the network? Of course, it is not easy to answer this question. There are many factors that influence the generated traffic for a device. For instance, the device type is a major criteria. Scanning…
Just one click to purchase a software. Might be good for us as a software vendor, but that is not what we really want. The entire company is committed to a transparent sales approach. It is our highest priority that our customers always feel comfortable. And this starts already when interest in our software is…
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, 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, 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, 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…
Dear JDisc friends, in the past, we encountered the situation at some customers where devices did not respond to ping (e.g. devices within a DMZ). Devices that do not respond to ping have not been easy to deal with in JDisc Discovery. They have been invisible for most discovery scans. Only a manual scan helped…
Dear JDisc friends, from time to time customers request features that are easy or trivial to implement. And whenever that happens, I am wondering why I didn’t implement this feature in the past! Yesterday, a customer asked whether it would be possible to gather the list of mapped disk drives. Up to now, we collected…
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…