Software detection
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGrzegorz Majka, Artur Obrzut, Ryszard Olkusnik, Marcin Skalski
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Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for software discovery in a computer system comprising a server and a client. Data defining at least one file category is received at the client from the server. File information pertaining to files belonging to the respective file category is established at the client for each of the at least one file category. The file information for each of the at least one file category is communicated from the client to the server. For each of the at least one file category, a checksum is calculated from the file information.
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A method for software discovery in a computer system comprising a server and a client, the method comprising:
- receiving, at said client from said server, data defining at least one file category based on one or more file attributes;
- establishing, at said client for each of said at least one file category, file information pertaining to files belonging to the respective file category;
- communicating said file information for each of said at least one file category from said client to said server;
- calculating, by a processor, for each of said at least one file category, a checksum from said file information;
- and
- comparing said checksum for a given file category for a given realm of a file system with a previously calculated checksum for said given file category for said given realm of said file system, wherein a checksum mismatch indicates a change within said given file category for said given realm of said file system.
A method for software discovery in a computer system comprising a server and a client, the method comprising:
- receiving, at said client from said server, data defining at least one file category based on one or more file attributes;
- establishing, at said client for each of said at least one file category, file information pertaining to files belonging to the respective file category;
- calculating, for each of said at least one file category, a checksum from said file information;
- and
- establishing, by a processor, from among each of said at least one file category, a set of file categories for which said checksum mismatches a corresponding checksum for the respective file category stored in at least one of said server and said client.
A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for software discovery in a computer system comprising a server and a client, the computer program product comprising the programming instructions for:
- receiving, at said client from said server, data defining at least one file category based on one or more file attributes;
- establishing, at said client for each of said at least one file category, file information pertaining to files belonging to the respective file category;
- calculating, for each of said at least one file category, a checksum from said file information;
- and
- establishing from among each of said at least one file category, a set of file categories for which said checksum mismatches a corresponding checksum for the respective file category stored in at least one of said server and said client.
A system, comprising:
- a memory unit for storing a computer program for software discovery in a computer system comprising a server and a client;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory unit, wherein the processor, responsive to the computer program, comprises:
- circuitry for communicating data defining at least one file category based on one or more file attributes from said server to said client;
- circuitry for establishing, at said client for each of said at least one file category, file information pertaining to files belonging to the respective file category;
- circuitry for calculating, for each of said at least one file category, a checksum from said file information;
- and
- circuitry for establishing from among each of said at least one file category, a set of file categories for which said checksum mismatches a corresponding checksum for the respective file category stored in at least one of said server and said client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.