Implementation of rolling key to identify systems inventories

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to:
• receive, at a server, a communication from a client system, the communication comprising a key;
• identify the client system using the key;
• generate, by the server, a key component comprising a random string of characters,
• transmitting a communication comprising the key component to the client system, and
• responsive to receiving an acknowledgment that the client system received the key component, store the key component as a new key to identify the client system.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that,

• when accessed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
• generate, by a client system, a key component comprising a random string of characters;
• transmit, to an inventory server, a communication comprising a key and the key component, wherein the key is used as an identifier to identify the client system in an inventory database of the inventory server;
• receive, from the inventory server, an acknowledgment that the client system has been identified in the inventory database and that the inventory server received the key component;
• and
• responsive to receiving the acknowledgment, store the key component as part of a new key to identify the client system.