PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE IT DISCOVERY WITHOUT CREDENTIALS
First Claim
1. A method for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources comprising:
- executing at least one prediscovery script on at least one target server;
providing at least one result of the executed prediscovery script to an analysis system to parse and analyze the at least one result to generate data; and
providing the data to a user, the data representing one or more of;
the dependencies, the configurations and the utilizations among the IT resources,wherein the analysis system does not require user credentials and does not directly communicate with the at least one target server except receiving the at least one result of the executed prediscovery script from the at least one target server.
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Abstract
A method and system for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources are disclosed. A discovery team writes a prediscovery script without requesting credentials and sends it to a system administrator (SA) who already has necessary credentials to execute the prediscovery script. Then, the SA reviews the prediscovery script and executes the prediscovery script on a target server. While or after executing the prediscovery script, the target server generates a result of an execution of the prediscovery script and provides the result to an analysis system. The analysis system analyzes and parses the result and generates a user-friendly data (e.g., graph or spreadsheet) that represents the result. Then, the analysis system provides the user-friendly data to the discovery team. The analysis system does not require credentials and does not directly communicate with the target server except receiving the result of the executed prediscovery script from the target server.
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24 Claims
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1. A method for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources comprising:
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executing at least one prediscovery script on at least one target server; providing at least one result of the executed prediscovery script to an analysis system to parse and analyze the at least one result to generate data; and providing the data to a user, the data representing one or more of;
the dependencies, the configurations and the utilizations among the IT resources,wherein the analysis system does not require user credentials and does not directly communicate with the at least one target server except receiving the at least one result of the executed prediscovery script from the at least one target server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24)
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12. A system for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources comprising:
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at least one target server for executing at least one prediscovery script; and an analysis system for receiving at least one result of the executed prediscovery script from the at least one target server and for parsing and analyzing the at least one result to generate data, said analysis system providing the data to a user, the data representing one or more of;
the dependencies, the configurations and the utilizations among the IT resources,wherein the analysis system does not require user credentials and does not directly communicate with the at least one target server except receiving the at least one result of the executed prediscovery script from the at least one target server. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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