Patent Document ID: 9432277
Application ID: 14317773
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for modeling interdependencies in a network datacenter, comprising: a machine-readable storage medium; one or more physical processors; a resource inventory containing information describing every resource in an information technology datacenter and every open communication port on the resources described in the resource inventory; one or more listeners configured to observe any network conversations originating in the datacenter and involving the open communication ports on the resources described in the resource inventory; and a correlation engine that analyzes at least one network conversation observed with the one or more listeners, wherein the one or more physical processors cause the correlation engine to: drop the observed network conversation in response to determining that the observed network conversation fails to correlate with any of the open communication ports on the resources described in the resource inventory; and model a relationship between two of the resources described in the resource inventory in response to determining that the Observed network conversation correlates with open communication ports on the two resources.