摘要 |
The present invention relates to systems and methods for generating unique and persistent identifiers for one or more entities within a network. The method of the present invention comprises discovering one or more entities within a network, a given entity associated with one or more attributes and an entity type. One or more unique and persistent identifier generation rule sets comprising one or more unique and persistent identifier generation rules are retrieved, wherein the rule sets correspond to the one or more entity types discovered within the network. Unique and persistent identifiers are generated for the one or more discovered entities within the network through use of the unique and persistent identifier generation rule sets and the one or more attributes associated with the one or more entities.
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