Patent ID: 8825932

Claim:
A computer system for obtaining vital product data (VPD) of a non-active component installed in the computer system, the computer system comprising: an active component, wherein the active component includes an optical sensor, wherein the optical sensor is positioned such that the optical sensor is able to scan an optically machine-readable representation of VPD of a non-active component when the non-active component is installed in the computer system, wherein the non-active component includes the optically machine-readable representation of the VPD of the non-active component; one or more computer processors; one or more computer-readable storage media; wherein the computer system is operable to: scan the optically machine-readable representation of the VPD of the non-active component; decode the optically machine-readable representation of the VPD to determine the VPD of the non-active component; and store the determined VPD of the non-active component.