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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2015
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jake Seigel, Halifax, CA;
QUEST SOFTWARE INC., Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for monitoring devices in a network comprising a coordinator operating on a first processor and configured to detect a plurality of active devices and to install an audit agent on each of the plurality of active devices. The audit agents configured to obtain configuration data for the active device that they are installed on using a processor of the active device, and to obtain configuration for each of a plurality of passive devices that the active device can access, where the passive devices are unable to support installation of an audit agent, and to transmit the configuration data to the coordinator. The coordinator configured to receive the configuration data for the active device and for the passive devices and to store the configuration data in a format that allows the configuration data to be selectively retrieved for the active device and the passive devices.