Patent ID: 8606659

Claim:
A system for identification of discrepancies in actual and expected inventories in a physical computing environment having physical asset relocation boundaries comprising: at least one collector interface disposed in relation with at least two of the physical computing environments such that movement of a physical computing asset from one physical computing environment to another physical computing environment is detected by a physical asset tracking system providing a physical asset relocation output; at least one asset inventory disposed in a tangible, computer-readable storage memory device, each asset inventory being associated with at least one of the physical computing environments; at least one backup copy of a physical computing environment disposed in a tangible, computer-readable storage memory device, each backup copy comprising a software image of one or more configured computing systems within the physical computing environment; an inventory scanner portion of a computer system for establishing an initial asset inventory for each of the physical computing environments, for receiving the physical asset relocation output from the collector interface, for modifying at least one asset inventory responsive to detection of relocation of a physical asset from or into a physical computing environment, and for comparing a backup copy of a physical computing environment with an inventory to detect discrepancies between a compared backup copy and an inventory.