| CPC G06F 16/215 (2019.01) [G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/289 (2019.01)] | 20 Claims | 

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               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. 
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