US 2017/0255483 A1 · TEMPLATE BASED SOFTWARE SCANS

Abstract

A discovery process to determine the software products deployed on machines of a computing environment. A machine obtains at least one of a deployment image or a software catalog to be used in determining products deployed on the machine. The deployment image and the software catalog are generated based on scanning a template used to create the machine. The deployment image includes information of one or more products in the template and the software catalog includes additional information for at least one product of the one or more products. The machine uses at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog to discover products deployed on the machine.

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Dependent claims

A computer program product for performing discovery within a computing environment, said computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
obtaining, by a machine of the computing environment, at least one of a deployment image or a software catalog to be used in determining products deployed on the machine, the at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog generated based on scanning a template used to create the machine, the deployment image comprising information of one or more products in the template and the software catalog comprising additional information for at least one product of the one or more products;
and
using, by the machine, at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog to discover products deployed on the machine.

1 more element

A computer system for performing discovery within a computing environment, said computer system comprising:

a memory;
and
a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, said method comprising:
obtaining, by a machine of the computing environment, at least one of a deployment image or a software catalog to be used in determining products deployed on the machine, the at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog generated based on scanning a template used to create the machine, the deployment image comprising information of one or more products in the template and the software catalog comprising additional information for at least one product of the one or more products;
and
using, by the machine, at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog to discover products deployed on the machine.

3 more elements

A computer-implemented method of performing discovery within a computing environment, said computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining, by a machine of the computing environment, at least one of a deployment image or a software catalog to be used in determining products deployed on the machine, the at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog generated based on scanning a template used to create the machine, the deployment image comprising information of one or more products in the template and the software catalog comprising additional information for at least one product of the one or more products;
and
using, by the machine, at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog to discover products deployed on the machine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Template based software scans

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Template based software scans

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Abstract

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