METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMPONENTS IN AN IT SYSTEM

摘要

A system and method for collecting information on components in an informati on technology (IT) system (76). This embodiment features discovering components in the IT system, determining at least one dependency between two or more of the discovered components (78), and tracking changes to the discovered components and the dependency between two or more of the discovered components. The discovery of components can be carried out using fingerprint s (84) of components, which can include key elements of the component that exi st in a full model of all of the elements of the component.