Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Entit Software LLC

David Azriel

Emil Shmul

Nimrod Nahum

Haya Axelrod

Nir Mardiks

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium is described in which discovery job instructions initiate a discovery job to discover target configuration items associated with a target business service in an information technology infrastructure. The storage medium comprises scoping instructions to, for a first configuration item and in response to a first stop condition not existing, designate the first configuration item as one of the target configuration items and continue the discovery job from the first configuration item to a second configuration item; and for the second configuration item and in response to the first stop condition or a second stop condition existing, stop the discovery job from proceeding from the second configuration item to a third configuration item.

Business service discovery

Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that determine whether an attribute value is associated with each configuration item in a plurality of configuration items. If it is determined that the attribute value is associated with each configuration item in the plurality of configuration items, the attribute value is deemed a redundant attribute value.

Redundant attribute values

Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that determine whether each configuration item in a plurality of configuration items is associated with every other configuration item therein. If each configuration item in the plurality of configuration items is associated with every other configuration item therein, the plurality of configuration items are merged such that each attribute associated therewith is associated with one configuration item. If each configuration item in the plurality of configuration items is not associated with every other configuration item therein, it is determined whether at least one configuration item may be ignored.

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Tel Aviv, Israel

David Azriel