Patent ID: 8793351

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying an unconfigured server rack that has not been previously configured within a data center by scanning a plurality of racks within the data center with a serial port aggregator communicatively coupled to the plurality of racks; obtaining, by the serial port aggregator, an identifier for the identified unconfigured rack; requesting, from a computing asset in the identified unconfigured rack, a virtual location of the identified unconfigured rack; receiving a response from the computing asset indicating a virtual location of the identified unconfigured rack; responsive to determining that the identified unconfigured rack is associated with more than one virtual location, reporting an error condition indicating that the identified unconfigured rack is associated with a plurality of virtual locations; and responsive to determining that the identified unconfigured rack is not associated with more than one virtual location: determining a physical location of the identified unconfigured rack based on the virtual location of the identified unconfigured rack; and configuring the identified unconfigured rack using at least one of the virtual location and the physical location.