US 12,260,238 B2
Device discovery in a virtualized environment
Parminder Singh Sethi, Ludhiana (IN); Durai Singh, Chennai (IN); and Suren Kumar, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/153,091.
Prior Publication US 2022/0229681 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 41/122 (2022.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [H04L 41/122 (2022.05); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method to discover reachable devices in a virtual environment, the method comprising:
providing a systems management console including a systems management agent configured to communicate with a virtual environment management console, the virtual environment management console hosted on a virtual management server and configured to manage a virtual environment;
receiving, by the systems management console, a network address of a device in the virtual environment;
determining, by the systems management console, a network address associated with the virtual environment management server from the received network address of the device in the virtual environment;
sending, by the systems management console via the systems management agent to the virtual environment management console using the determined network address associated with the virtual environment management server, a request for network addresses of virtual machine (VM) host servers and VMs in the virtual environment;
receiving, by the systems management console via the systems management agent from the virtual environment management console, the network addresses of the VM host servers and the VMs in the virtual environment; and
providing, by the systems management console, a notification of the VM host servers and the VMs discovered in the virtual environment.