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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2006
James R. Boykin, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Alberto Giammaria, Austin, TX (US);
Brian J. Schlosser, Austin, TX (US);
James R. Boykin, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Alberto Giammaria, Austin, TX (US);
Brian J. Schlosser, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and relationships between the resources and write their representations in a persistent store. Discovery directives are used to coordinate the execution of information providers.