Identification of discrepancies in actual and expected inventories in computing environment having multiple provisioning orchestration server pool boundaries

US8606659B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Vijay Kumar Aggarwal · Marlboro, US
• Craig Lawton · Raleigh, US
• Christopher Andrew Peters · Round Rock, US
• Puthukode G. Ramachandran · Austin, US
• Lorin Evan Ullmann · Austin, US
• John Patrick Whitfield · Cary, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2013
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/063
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for establishing and maintaining inventories of computing environment assets comprising one or more custom collector interfaces that detect movement of assets from one environment to another, and an inventory scanner which modifies inventories for each environment based on monitored asset movements. The present invention is of especial benefit to autonomic and on-demand computing architectures.