Server system and method for discovering digital assets in enterprise information systems

摘要

A system, method, article of manufacture, and a computer program product identifies (discovers) member objects of one or more computer system parts in an Enterprise Information System (EIS) while establishing at least one topographical relationship among the member objects to create digital assets, which involves traversing one or more computer file systems of the EIS to find one or more of the member objects. For each member object found, a digital asset identifier of the found member object is placed in an intermediate representation. The intermediate representation is a graph with nodes and edges. Each of the digital asset identifiers corresponds to one of the nodes of the graph. The edges represent the topographical relationship. A digital asset is created from the member object by placing the member object in a logic/data section of the digital asset and attaching an extended environment data structure to the logic/data section. The digital asset is stored in an asset inventory container object. This may be repeated for each found member object until the intermediate representation fully describes the computer system part and the asset inventory container object is a complete inventory of the digital assets of interest in the computer system part.