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US 2014/0229933 A1Published application
Virtual machine discovery and identification
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorsBiswajit Kanungo, Pramod Bangalore
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Abstract
Methods, systems and computer readable media for virtual machine discovery and identification are described.
Claims14
A method for discovering and identifying virtual machines, the method comprising:
- receiving, at one or more processors, information from a virtual machine, the information including one or more of a time stamp, an IP address, a MAC address and a DNS name;
- comparing, at the one or more processors, the information received from the virtual machine to stored virtual machine information retrieved from a database;
- when a number of items of information received from the virtual machine match items of the stored virtual entity information, determining that the virtual machine matches a virtual machine associated with the stored virtual machine information;
- and
- when a number of items of information received from the virtual machine do not match items of the stored virtual machine information, determining that the virtual machine is an unknown virtual machine and adding the virtual machine information to the database and associating the stored information with the virtual machine.
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A system for discovering and identifying virtual machines, the system comprising one or more processors configured to perform operations including:
- receiving, at one or more processors, information from a virtual machine;
- comparing, at the one or more processors, the information received from the virtual machine to stored virtual machine information retrieved from a database;
- when a number of items of information received from the virtual machine match items of the stored virtual entity information, determining that the virtual machine matches a virtual machine associated with the stored virtual machine information;
- and
- when a number of items of information received from the virtual machine do not match items of the stored virtual machine information, determining that the virtual machine is an unknown virtual machine and adding the virtual machine information to the database and associating the stored information with the virtual machine.
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A nontransitory computer readable medium having stored thereon software instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:
- receiving, at one or more processors, information from a virtual machine;
- comparing, at the one or more processors, the information received from the virtual machine to stored virtual machine information retrieved from a database;
- when a number of items of information received from the virtual machine match items of the stored virtual entity information, determining that the virtual machine matches a virtual machine associated with the stored virtual machine information;
- and
- when a number of items of information received from the virtual machine do not match items of the stored virtual machine information, determining that the virtual machine is an unknown virtual machine and adding the virtual machine information to the database and associating the stored information with the virtual machine.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.