International Business Machines Corporation

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

Grzegorz Majka

Artur Obrzut

Ryszard Olkusnik

Jacek J Stezowski

Luigi Pichetti

Piotr P Godowski

Grazyna Stochel

Marcin Skalski

Magdalena Strus

Malgorzata Brindell

Magdalena Pilarczyk-Zurek

Klaudyna Spiewak-Wojtyla

A file discovery method, comprising receiving file discovery data comprising, for each of a plurality of files, discovery information and signature data, the discovery information for a first file of the plurality of files being indicative of at least one directory to be scanned for another of the plurality of files relative to a first directory, scanning, in a first scanning operation, a file system for the first file, and scanning, in a second scanning operation subsequent to the first scanning operation, the at least one directory for a second file matching signature data comprised by the file discovery data using a path to the first file as the first directory.

Software discovery with variable scan frequency

A solution is proposed for identifying software components in a computing system. A corresponding method comprises monitoring events relating to one or more software components of the computing system, filtering the events into filtered events according to finalizing events of corresponding event sequences ending with the finalizing events, each of the event sequences relating to a logical operation for a corresponding current software component of the software components being finalized by the finalizing events, and determining corresponding current signatures of the current software components of the filtered events, each of the current signatures being determined according to at least part of a content of the corresponding current software component for use to identify the current software component according to a comparison of the current signature with one or more known signatures of known software components.

Identification of software components based on filtering of corresponding events

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.

Software detection

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Grzegorz Majka