Patent ID: 11863619
Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, an input query specifying how computing resources of an information technology (IT) infrastructure are discovered, the input query having a filter parameter;
receiving, by the processor, a discovery job for the input query, the discovery job having a job parameter and associated with a first trigger query that is a first subset of the input query;
receiving, by the processor, a dependency discovery job for the input query, the dependency discovery job associated with a second trigger query that is a second subset of the input query;
calculating, by the processor, one or more second trigger configuration items (CIs) based on the second trigger query;
initiating, by the processor, discovery of second computing resources by dispatching each second trigger CI of the one or more second trigger CIs;
as discovery occurs due to dispatching each second trigger CI, receiving, by the processor, second CIs representing the second computing resources matching the one or more second trigger CIs and populating the second CIs within a configuration management database (CMDB); and
specifying, by the processor, a CI tag of one of the second CIs matching the filter parameter as the job parameter of the discovery job;
calculating, by the processor, one or more first trigger CIs based on the first trigger query, such that the filter parameter of the input query is replaced with the job parameter in the one or more first trigger CIs;
initiating, by the processor, discovery of first computing resources by dispatching each first trigger CI of the one or more first trigger CIs; and
as discovery occurs due to dispatching each first trigger CI, receiving first CIs representing first computing resources matching the one or more first trigger CIs and populating the first CIs within the CMDB.