COMPONENT DETECTION AND AWARENESS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BY AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING PHYSCIAL COMPONENTS HOUSING THE COMPONENT WITHIN THE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A component awareness and proximity detection methodology is disclosed. In a computer-implemented method, components of a computing environment are automatically monitored, and configuration information used to uniquely identify the components and their corresponding physical residence in the computing environment and feature selection and location analysis performed thereon. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are well defined and identified, a classification of the features is performed. Based on the classification of features components in the computing environment are selectively located in identifiable hosts is performed.