Abstract: A method of performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a computer system is described and disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes identifying one or more affected hardware identifiers. Each affected hardware identifier corresponds to any of the cards. Configuration information of the computer system is gathered. Moreover, the configuration information is used to analyze the affected hardware identifiers to identify any affected resource of the computer system. The identification of any affected resource is independent of a system-wide hardware scan of the computer system. Furthermore, one of a plurality of severity levels is assigned to each identified affected resource based on predetermined criteria. The severity levels include a low severity level, a medium severity level, and a high severity level. Each severity level represents degree of impact to the computer system if functionality of the identified affected resource became unavailable.