Patent ID: 8499067

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for discovering a physical location of a physical server device in a datacenter, the method comprising: obtaining external characteristics of the physical server device associated with the physical location of the physical server device, the external characteristics including: an external detail of the physical server device, a visual signal from the physical server device, and heat generated from a device running or operating in the physical server device; acquiring at least one logical property of the physical server device; and correlating the external characteristics and the at least one logical property to identify the physical location of the physical server device, wherein the correlating includes steps of: generating a first function that represents one or more of the external characteristics; generating a second function that represents the at least one logical property; calculating a similarity metric for every pair of the at least one logical property and the one or more external characteristics based on the generated first function and the generated second function; and finding a pair of the at least one logical property and an external characteristic having a highest calculated similarity metric, whereby the physical location of the physical server device is identified based on the found pair.