# US 2013/0159358 A1 · Forming Configuration Information about Components of Systems which Include Components for which Acquisition of Configuration Information is Restricted > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2013/0159358 A1 - Document ID: US20130159358A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/769,932 - Filed: 2013-02-19 - Published: 2013-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2009-12-18 - Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation - Inventors: Yohkichi Sasatani - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130159358A1 ## CPC - G06F 16/22: Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures - B82Y 10/00: Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic - B82Y 30/00: Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites - H10D 62/814: {Quantum box structures} - H10P 14/265: {using solutions} - H10P 14/2922: {being non-crystalline insulating materials, e.g. glass or polymers} - H10P 14/3241: {being conductive materials} - H10P 14/3418: {Phosphides} - H10P 14/3424: {being Group IIB-VIA materials} - H10P 14/3428: {Sulfides} - H10P 14/3436: {being chalcogenide semiconductor materials not being oxides, e.g. ternary compounds} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B82Y: SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES - H10D: INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - H10P: GENERIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10 ## Abstract A mechanism is provided for managing configuration information about components of a management target system. Identification is made of the existence of a first component from configuration information about one or more other components except the first component. Pattern data is stored for analogizing configuration information about a component for which acquisition of the configuration information is restricted, the pattern data being associated with a set of one or more conditions and attribute values. Pattern data is retrieved whose configuration information about a component related to the first component, among the one or more other components, satisfies the set of conditions. Analogized configuration information is formed about the first component using attribute values associated with the retrieved pattern data. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-14. (canceled) ### Claim 15 A method in a system for forming configuration information about components of a system which includes a first component for which acquisition of configuration information is restricted, the method comprising: identifying the existence of the first component from configuration information about one or more other components except the first component; retrieving, from a storage storing pattern data for analogizing configuration information about a component for which acquisition of the configuration information is restricted, the pattern data being associated with a set of one or more conditions and one or more attribute values, such pattern data that configuration information about a component related to the first component, among the one or more other components, satisfies the set of conditions; and forming analogized configuration information about the first component using one or more attribute values associated with the retrieved pattern data. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, further comprising: storing the configuration information about the one or more other components and the analogized configuration information about the first component as CIs (configuration items) in a configuration management database. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method according to claim 16, wherein a CI expressing the existence of the first component is formed in the configuration management database in response to the existence of the first component having been identified. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method according to claim 17, wherein, when multiple CIs expressing the existence of the first component are formed, the multiple CIs are integrated in response to the analogized information having been formed. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the identification of the existence of the first component is identified from connection information related to the first component, among the configuration information about the one or more other components. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the analogized configuration information is stored together with data indicating that the configuration information is analogized information. ### Claim 21 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, further comprising: displaying the analogized configuration information about the first component on a display device together with the configuration information about the one or more other components. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The method according to claim 21, further comprising: displaying the analogized configuration information about the first component on the display device in a manner so that it is shown that the configuration information is analogized configuration information. ### Claim 23 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein, on condition that actual configuration information about the first component has been acquired, the method further comprises: replacing the analogized configuration information with the actual configuration information. ### Claim 24 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, further comprising: acquiring the configuration information about the one or more other components. ### Claim 25 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the configuration information about the one or more other components includes connection relations among components of a management target system. ### Claim 26 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the first component is any of a hardware element and a software element. ### Claim 27 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the first component is software on a discovery-restricted computer.