US 12,455,864 B2
Data center monitoring and management operation including a data tag management operation
Marc Guertin, Newton, MA (US); Claudia Realegeno, Maple Valley, WA (US); Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye, Austin, TX (US); and Nandhini Sridaran, Frisco, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/241,030.
Prior Publication US 2025/0077485 A1, Mar. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/215 (2019.01) [G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/289 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implementable method for performing a data center monitoring and management operation, comprising:
establishing a secure communication channel between a data center asset and data tag management system, the data tag management system executing within a data center monitoring and management console, the data center monitoring and management console executing a data center monitoring and management operation, the data center monitoring and management operation including a data tag management operation, the data tag management operation executing within the data center monitoring and management console on the data tag management system;
generating, via the data tag management system, a tag policy, the tag policy comprising a requirement that a newly generated data tag adheres to a particular format;
generating, via a data tag generation operation executed by the data tag management system, a tag for an object within the data center asset using the tag policy, the data tag generation operation associating a contextual meaning with the object, the contextual meaning of the object comprising a definition in which a meaning of the object is determined by defining a larger expression containing a definiendum of the object;
registering, via the data tag management system, the tag when the tag is generated;
storing, via the data tag management system, the tag within a tag storage repository when the tag is registered; and,
managing, via a data tag management operation executing on the data tag management system, an aspect of the tag and association of the tag with a particular object.