- Patent Title: Extending scalable policy management to supporting network devices
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Application No.: US16024306Application Date: 2018-06-29
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Publication No.: US10742557B1Publication Date: 2020-08-11
- Inventor: Prasad Miriyala , Manish Singh , Vivekananda Shenoy , Anantharamu Suryanarayana
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L12/813
- IPC: H04L12/813 ; H04L12/863 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/937 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L12/931

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for extending scalable policy management to supporting network devices. A network device comprising a memory and a processor may perform various aspects of the techniques. The memory may be configured to store a policy. The processor may be configured to obtain the policy to be enforced by a supporting network device coupled to a server, and identify a port of the supporting network device to which the server is coupled via the switch fabric. The policy controller may also identify a workload executed by the server to which the policy is associated, and convert the policy into configuration data supported by the network device. The policy controller may further configure, based on the configuration data, the network device to enforce the policy with respect to network traffic received via the identified port.
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