| CPC H04L 67/02 (2013.01) [G06F 9/54 (2013.01)] | 14 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a central management service, a first HTTP communication including an HTTP request, wherein the first HTTP communication includes an HTTP method passed in a universal resource locator (“URL”) of the first HTTP communication;
receiving, at the central management service, data parameters, wherein the data parameters include a virtual machine identifier, wherein the data parameters are received as parameters of the HTTP method;
determining, by the central management service and based on the data parameters, a database query, wherein determining the database query is further based on the HTTP method;
executing the database query against an inventory database, wherein the database query includes the virtual machine identifier as a lookup key, and wherein the database query returns data fields related to the virtual machine identifier;
including, in a reply communication, the data fields related to the virtual machine identifier, wherein the reply communication is a reply HTTP communication; and
upgrading, by the first HTTP communication, an HTTP connection to the central management service to use a bidirectional protocol.
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