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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Cerner Innovation, Inc., Kansas City, KS (US);
Jim S. Avazpour, Overland Park, KS (US);
Timothy C. Fite, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Douglas Saus, Platte City, MO (US);
Volodymyr Polishchuk, Kansas City, MO (US);
CERNER INNOVATION, INC., Kansas City, KS (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods provide for automatically generating a data model of a data center. Inventory data identifying devices in the data center is obtained by querying the devices and/or extracting the data from existing data sources. In addition, switch-to-switch data regarding the linking relationships among switches is obtained by querying the switches in the data center using a discovery protocol. Further, switch-to-server relationship data regarding the linking relationships between switches and servers is obtained at least in part by querying switches in the data center for MAC table data to identify the MAC addresses of servers connected to the switches. The inventory data, switch-to-switch relationship data, and switch-to-server relationship data is persisted to the data model of the data center, thereby providing information identifying devices within the data center and the dependencies and relationships among the devices.