Automated identification of computing system resources based on computing resource dna

A system for identifying a computing resource of a computing system based on computing resource DNA comprising:

• a plurality of reference computing resource DNAs corresponding to a plurality of computing resources communicatively coupled within a computing system, wherein each reference computing resource DNA comprises a plurality of computing resource DNA elements, wherein the plurality of computing resource DNA elements correspond to identifying characteristics of a computing resource;
• an unidentified computing resource DNA describing a computing resource of the computing system with an unrecognized configuration of computing resource DNA elements;
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• a resource identification engine configured to utilize a heuristic algorithm to determine if the foreign configuration of computing resource DNA elements contained within the unidentified computing resource DNA is an alternate representation of a reference computing resource DNA within the plurality of reference computing resource DNAs.

A computer program product that identifies a computing resource of a computing system based on computing resource DNA comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:
• computer usable program code configured to receive a computing resource DNA associated with a computing resource of a computing system, wherein said computing resource DNA comprises a plurality of computing resource DNA elements, wherein each computing resource DNA element corresponds to at least one identifying characteristic of the computing resource;
• computer usable program code configured to ascertain an existence of a set of at least one potential match for the received computing resource DNA from a set of at least one reference data;
• computer usable program code configured to refine the set of at least one potential match;
• computer usable program code configured to determine an optimum match for the computing resource DNA from the set of at least one potential match;
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• computer usable program code configured to identify the computing resource DNA as a representation of a computing resource associated with the optimum match.