Servicenow, Inc.

Josiah Sullivan

Siddharth Rajendra Shah

Jeremy Norris

Vincent Seguin

Joe Davis

Kelly Vincent

Disclosed are techniques for automating records related to devices coupled to a network, such as servers, clients and memory banks. The fingerprint-based configuration typing and classification described herein may identify a fingerprint for a first device located on a network, the first device having a plurality of hardware components and the fingerprint generated based on a combination of at least two hardware components of the first device. The fingerprint is assigned to the first device. If the device does not have a first identifier assigned to it that identifies the plurality of hardware components, the fingerprint is compared to a plurality of stored fingerprints, with at least some of the stored fingerprints having a respective identifier. If the fingerprint matches one of the plurality of stored fingerprints and that stored fingerprint has an identifier associated therewith, the identifier associated with the stored fingerprint is assigned to the first device as the first identifier.

Fingerprint-based configuration typing and classification

A distributed backup method includes defining a server group having a plurality of server computers, and providing each server computer with an identical backup policy and an identical storage policy. The method also includes transmitting, at each server computer of the server group to every other server computer of the server group, advertisement messages describing available storage space for storing backups, and receiving, at each server computer from the server, at least some of the advertisement messages. The method also includes identifying, at a first server computer using the backup policy, at least a first service to be backed up, selecting a second server computer using the received advertisement messages, transmitting, from the first server computer to the second server computer, a backup including information corresponding to the at least one service, and storing the backup, by the second server computer using the storage policy.

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Josiah Sullivan