公开(公告)号：US10419285B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-17

申请号：US14594809

申请日：2015-01-12

Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG

Inventor： Christian Messinger ,  Philipp Vorst ,  Georg Gutermuth ,  Wolfgang Mahnke

IPC: H04L12/24

Abstract: A configuration management device for vendor-independent network device configuration includes a network interface unit for communicating with network devices over a communications network and a data storage unit. The network interface unit can include a unified device network interface and a device-specific driver unit, where the unified device network interface can: retrieve a device profile; to identify a network device which belongs to a network device type corresponding to the device profile; retrieve information on a device-specific configuration protocol to be used during configuration of the network device; and download values for the vendor-independent configuration parameters to the network device.

公开(公告)号：US09674038B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-06

申请号：US14740845

申请日：2015-06-16

Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG

Inventor： Philipp Vorst ,  Wolfgang Mahnke ,  Christian Messinger ,  Georg Gutermuth

IPC: G06F15/177 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/12

CPC classification number: H04L41/0826 ,  H04L12/12 ,  H04L41/0866 ,  H04L41/0883 ,  H04L41/0886 ,  Y02D50/40

Abstract: A method is disclosed for automatically configuring network devices of a data network having at least two configurable network devices, whose configuration parameters are deployable over the data network to the configurable network devices from an initial configuration state to a desired configuration state. At least one of the configurable network devices is from a first type of network devices, whose configuration requires a pre-defined series of at least one intermediate configuration state. A central deployment network device determines the actual state of each configurable network device for comparing with desired states of the configurable network devices, and in case of a difference, determines a subsequent intermediate and or respective subsequent desired configuration state wherein actual states of the configurable network devices are considered.