1. A computerized method for identifying an application in a computer network, the method comprising: scanning, by a manager, a run-time environment (RTE) of a plurality of servers in the computer network to locate instances of a target application on at least one of the plurality of the servers while the at least one server is running, the scanning step of each of the plurality of servers comprising: connecting to the server, accessing a process table of the server, the process table comprising a plurality of process entries, each process entry representing an application running on the server, locating executable code for each listed application in the process table, for each listed application, conducting a text-based pattern match in the command line structure between a unique identifier associated with the target application and contents of the listed application, the unique identifier comprising a text segment included in a portion of executable code for the target application, and locating an instance of the target application running on the server when the contents of one of the listed applications in the process table includes an executable code segment that matches the unique identifier; and transmitting, by the manager, application information, the application information including: identification of each server that was running the identified instances of the target application, and information provided by the server associated with the identified instances of the target application.