Patent ID: 7844506

Claim:
A method of managing information regarding an information technology (IT) migration, the method comprising: reading data from a plurality of computer system records with a software agent executing on a management computer system, the plurality of records including a unique record for each of a plurality of computer systems undergoing the IT migration, each of the plurality of records including at least one field corresponding to a changeable component of the computer system and including at least one field identifying an attribute of the computer system; reading data from a mapping table including a plurality of mapping records with the software agent executing on the management computer system, each of the plurality of mapping records including at least one field corresponding to an attribute of a computer system and at least one field corresponding to a required action for the changeable component as part of the IT migration, wherein the software agent is configured to only read data from the mapping table; and automatically populating, with the software agent executing on the management computer system, the at least one field corresponding to the changeable component of the computer system in each of the plurality of computer system records by: extracting at least one attribute of the computer system from the computer system record; determining the required action for the changeable component of the computer system using the at least one attribute of the computer system and the mapping table; and populating the at least one field corresponding to the changeable component of the computer system in the computer system record with the required action.