Patent ID: 8099767

Claim:
A method, in an agent-less discovery engine of a data processing system, for securing dynamic discovery of an enterprise computing infrastructure, comprising: maintaining enterprise credential information in a secured trust store; receiving an access request through a secure connection for access to a remote infrastructure component; automatically determining the type of the access request; for a root-level type access request, automatically responding to the request via the secure connection with enterprise root credentials from the trust store; for an unprivileged type access request, automatically responding to the request via the secure connection with unprivileged access enterprise credentials from the trust store; and automatically utilizing, by the agent-less discovery engine, the remotely received enterprise root credential or the remotely received unprivileged access enterprise credentials, depending on the determined type of the access request, to access the remote infrastructure component of the enterprise computing infrastructure to perform application configuration retrieval from the remote infrastructure component as part of the discovery of the enterprise computing infrastructure, wherein the secure trust store is maintained separate from the agent-less discovery engine.