Patent ID: 8402126

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first managed system executing in a network, wherein the first managed system comprises a first hardware component and a first software component; and a proxy management object (PMO) executing in the network, wherein the PMO is configured to: send, to a first active Internet Protocol (IP) address in the network, a first network protocol request in a first network protocol of a plurality of network protocols, wherein the first active Internet Protocol (IP) address corresponds to the first managed system; receive, from the first managed system, a first response to the first network protocol request; classify, using a neural network, the first managed system into a subset of a plurality of managed system classifications based on the first response, identify, from the neural network, a second network protocol for narrowing a classification from the subset of the plurality of managed system classifications, send, to the first active IP, a second network protocol request in the second network protocol of the plurality of network protocols; receive, from the first managed system, a second response to the second network protocol request; classify, using the neural network, the first managed system into a first managed system classification in the subset of the plurality of managed system classifications, identify a set of drivers using the first managed system classification, wherein the set of drivers are configured to obtain first management information about the managed system, obtain a first set of drivers, populate a data model with the first management information obtained using at least one of the first set of drivers, and manage the first managed system using the data model.