Patent ID: 8878852

Claim:
A system for analyzing data center components, the system comprising: one or more processors; a computer-readable memory; and a module comprising executable instructions stored in the computer-readable memory, the module, when executed by the one or more processors, configured to: retrieve, from a data store, a plurality of data records regarding physical and operational characteristics of a plurality of computing devices; generate a first graph representing a relationship among a first set of computing devices, the relationship based at least partly on a physical or operational characteristic of each of the first set of computing devices; generate a second graph representing a relationship among a second set of computing devices, the relationship based at least partly on a physical or operational characteristic of each of the second set of computing devices; link the first graph and the second graph based at least partly on a presence, in each of first set of computing devices and the second set of computing devices, of a common computing device; and in response to a query regarding a queried computing device, identify a third set of computing devices related to the queried computing devices based at least partly on the relationship represented by the first graph and the relationship represented by the second graph.