Emc Corporation

Vikram Patki

Yifeng Chen

Alex Dubrovsky

Methods and systems of maintaining a computed relationship between components in a network are disclosed. A relationship represents one or more connections between components. Discovered relationships between components in the network are detected. A discovered relationship represents a direct connection between components. A computed relationship between a class of source component and a class of target component is determined. The computed relationship comprises a number of discovered relationships that, when combined, represent connections between one or more types of the source component and one or more types of the target component. The computed relationship is stored. The discovered relationships that comprise the computed relationship are monitored for a change event. The change event may represent a change in the network, such as the addition or deletion of one or more components.

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Vikram Patki