The invention includes a method, system, and article to automatically soft configure a node, such as a compute node, in a data center. The data center may have several racks and a unit may be installed in one of the racks as the node. Each rack may be identified by a unique rack location. The data center...http://www.google.cl/patents/US7013462?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7013462 - Method to map an inventory management system to a configuration management system
