Distributed Enterprise Equipment Inventory Location System

摘要

Management controller awareness and cooperation between nodes within an IT environment are used to provide a secure, optional and altruistic system to identify environment inventory. Such a system minimizes a management controller compute overhead, network burden via an optimized search space and provides an opportunistic scheduled time for response.

主权项

1. A computer-implementable method for locating inventory within an enterprise environment, comprising:
generating, from a source, a broadcast message requesting location of a device within the enterprise environment, the broadcast message indicating whether the device corresponds to a particular lost type, the particular lost type indicating a severity of loss of the device; performing a search in a peer of the enterprise environment to determine whether the device is present in the peer; generating a reply to the source when the device is present in the peer.