Patent ID: 9021452
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. At least one tangible computer-readable medium, excluding a signal, storing instructions for a discovery agent which, when executed by at least one data processing device, perform a method of demonstrating new data storage and recovery software for use on a computing system, wherein the computing system includes multiple computing devices networked together, wherein one of the multiple computing devices is a network management computing device, the method comprising: determining, by the discovery agent that is installed on the network management computing device, if the discovery agent determines that the existing data storage and recovery software is installed in the computing system, identifying a subset of the multiple computing devices of the computing system based on a system content file associated with the existing data storage and recovery software, transmitting, by the discovery agent, the extracted characteristics of the subset of the multiple computing devices to a remote computing device to enable the remote computing device to provide a simulation to a user of the new data storage and recovery software, providing, by the discovery agent, a list of software licenses for the new data storage and recovery software based on the subset of the multiple identified computing devices of the computing system, installing, by the discovery agent that is installed on the network management computing device, the individual software components onto the subset of the multiple computing devices to enable operation of the new data storage and recovery software within the computing system.