Patent ID: 9369352
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of improving the accuracy of a topology report, the topology report covering a plurality of operating systems on a plurality of servers, the servers comprising virtual servers and physical servers, the servers comprising a plurality of processors or CPUs or both, each CPU comprising one or more cores, the method comprising: executing a first script on a computer to create a primary topology report by performing a primary analysis that accesses a plurality of physical servers via an enterprise network to identify the physical servers, to identify a plurality of processors, CPUs and cores in the physical servers, and to identify a plurality of operating systems installed on the physical servers, the processors, CPUs and the cores; executing a second script on the computer to perform one or more secondary analysis that collects information identifying a plurality of virtual software installed on the plurality of servers, and amending the primary topology report based on at least one of the one or more secondary analysis to create a secondary amended topology report; executing a third script on the computer to compare the results in the secondary amended topology report regarding servers, processors and cores against publicly available CPU core relationship information regarding at least one of the CPUs, and amending the secondary amended topology report based on the publicly available CPU core relationship information to create an updated secondary amended topology report; and paying license fees to vendors of operating systems in accordance with the updated secondary amended topology report.