Patent ID: 8583709

Claim:
A method comprising: simulating a file system interface out of at least a portion of a dormant computer system; performing file-based discovery on said simulated file system interface to obtain a detailed inventory of said dormant computer system, said detailed inventory comprising at least one of: software profiles of said dormant computer system, software instances of said dormant computer system, services of said dormant computer system, and data objects used by said services; and identifying files leveraged by select commands, wherein said performing step further comprises reading and interpreting said files leveraged by said select commands to obtain configuration information associated with execution of said select commands; creating a limited run time environment for select ones of said software instances, from at least said portion of said dormant computer system, based on said simulated file system interface; and starting at least one middleware instance within said limited run time environment; wherein said performing step is further carried out on said at least one middleware instance.