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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
May. 29, 2008
Antonio Perrone, Rome, IT;
Bernardo Pastorelli, L'Aquila, IT;
Brian Joseph Schlosser, Austin, TX (US);
Paolo Salerno, Rome, IT;
Rossella DE Gaetano, Rome, IT;
Tomasz Stopa, Krakow, PL;
Antonio Perrone, Rome, IT;
Bernardo Pastorelli, L'Aquila, IT;
Brian Joseph Schlosser, Austin, TX (US);
Paolo Salerno, Rome, IT;
Rossella De Gaetano, Rome, IT;
Tomasz Stopa, Krakow, PL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for determining a software configuration in a computer system having a plurality of devices which can communicate with a central server and a one or more shared file systems, the method including the acts of determining, by each of the plurality of devices, which of the one or more shared file systems the corresponding device is mounted to; designating for each of the one or more shared file systems a device which is mounted thereto to perform a scanning operation on the corresponding shared file system, the device being selected from the plurality of devices; scanning, by each designated device, the one or more shared file systems that the corresponding device has been designated to scan so as to identify software products on the corresponding shared file systems that correspond with the catalog information; and receiving, from each designated device, results of the scanning for further processing.