公开(公告)号：US20210029222A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：US17040087

申请日：2018-04-27

Applicant: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Inventor： Ji-kui PEI ,  Hao LU ,  Chunfeng WANG ,  Yan LIU

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24 ,  G06F9/4401 ,  G06F8/65

Abstract: An example first network device comprising: a memory to store a seed image, wherein the seed image includes instructions to communicate with devices of a predetermined device type, and wherein the seed image excludes instructions to provision the first network device to be fully operational in a network environment; and a processor to boot the first network device in the network environment for a first time, to detect if a second network device of the predetermined device type exists in the network environment, to download a full version of a product image from the second network device in response to the second network device of the predetermined device type existing in the network environment, wherein the full version of the product image uniquely corresponds to network devices deployed in the network environment that includes at least one device of the predetermined device type, to replace the seed image with the full version of the product image, and to provision the first network device to a particular device type corresponding to the network environment that includes the at least one device of the predetermined device type using the full version of the product image.