Patent ID: 9641394
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,Y04S

Claim:
1. One or more computer-readable hardware memory having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for discovering and validating an inventory of hardware, the method comprising: initiating, using a user device of a verification ecosystem, the verification ecosystem comprising the user device having a template file and the hardware inventory, communication with a serial-access device within the hardware inventory or network switch device residing on a secondary out-of-band network within the hardware inventory, wherein the communication triggers intercommunication between the user device and the hardware inventory, the intercommunication excludes an existing infrastructure, wherein the intercommunication for discovery and validation of the hardware inventory is performed based at least in part on a security boundary that serves as a virtual layer that isolates and securely separates the existing infrastructure from the hardware inventory; configuring the serial-access device to send instructions to a power distribution unit (PDU), wherein the PDU is responsible for selectively supplying power to a set of computing units, and wherein the instructions cause the PDU to deliver power to at least one selected computing unit of the set of computing units and to withhold power from at least one nonselected computing unit of the set of computing units; receiving a data packet from the at least one selected computing unit; using the data packet to identify a location of the at least one selected computing unit within a physical topology of the hardware inventory; and cross-referencing the identified location, address and internal wiring of the at least one selected computing unit against the template file having an expected location, address, and internal wiring, to verify that the physical topology of the hardware inventory corresponds thereto.