JDisc Discovery

Very good product for afordable price.

Commentaires : We use a JDisc discovery for (now mostly infrastructure) asset tracking at our clients premises. And we have over 30 installations and counting.

Avantages :

We chose JDisc as an discovery tool, because it is agentless, it has "native integration" with our CMDB system and really extensive device and software recognition database and discovery protocols available. All that for a really good price. We use their "Networking add-on" to have a "big-picture" on our network topologies. Notable features like PAM/password manager integrations adds up to the security and usability of the product. It has custom reporting and even Custom discovery scripts if You need it. The support is supper responsive and with deep knowledge in the field, new "unknown" devices could be added just "on request". All that is needed for this task is already in the app. "Builds" are coming on a weekly intervals adding support for new features and new devices .

Inconvénients :

The biggest drawback is kind of clumsy install and update process of software. As it uses .NET libraries to be able to provide Windows device discovery it is Windows "Server and Client" architecture software. So for those already used to "git pull" it will be nightmare. Install/config through installer takes up to 30 min depending on "hardware" and even minor build update is actually full reinstall of application. Don't expect to be on a "latest" build if You have more than 1 installation.

Best network discovery i know

Avantages :

JDisc shows me information about the hardware and software easily and quickly. Thanks to the relational database, I can easily see, for example, which software is installed on which computers.

Inconvénients :

Sometimes the menus are confusing and the operation is not consistent.

Discover the Undiscovered

Commentaires : At the end of the day JDISC is a real time-saver and watchguard over your networks changes in structure and configuration. I stopped looking at workplace systems. JDISC is just a few mouseclicks away.

Avantages :

Stumbling into a unknown and not well documented Network, Jdisc provided me with a fast and nearly complete overall view in hours. But that's only the first step. We use JDISC now to keep track of asset and network changes directly into i-doit CMDB. Beside frequently updates bringing not only bug-fixes but also a lot of support for many common and exotic hard- and software, the outstanding Support has to be mentioned.

Inconvénients :

Frequently Updates soon become a challenge, since updates have to be applicationlied manualy; sorry nno in-application-updates. Also I would like to see a linux-based edition.

Straightforward the best tool to get an inventory quickly

Commentaires : Sophisticated tool that gives you a very detailed output about your environment including all your open ports on the network, a list of pending updates, all your Exchange Mailboxes with features enabled and size all in one click

Avantages :

Best customer support ever. Had unidentified devices on the network, simply did send a SNMP Walk to the support and the devices were detected correctly in the next release A WEEK LATER !! Yes they do releases every week ! They are always open for suggestions

Inconvénients :

Really nothing to complain about as the product is evolving fast and all needed functions are included

Best network discovery tool

Avantages :

Excellent detection of all hardware and software in our network. It finds nearly everything. And those really unusual pieces of hardware are quickly added by the software developers. It's a quality that you rarely see these days in commercial products.

Inconvénients :

It only runs on Windows which is rather unusual in our environment. We favor Linux/Ubuntu/Mint.