Business policy management for self-driving network

    公开(公告)号:US11075805B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16831607

    申请日:2020-03-26

    Abstract: A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes one or more processing units configured to receive an indication of a stateful intent, the data structure including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, each node of the plurality of nodes being representative of a respective network device of the plurality of network devices. The one or more processing units are configured to determine, using an abstract function configured at a node of the plurality of nodes, a stateless intent for implementing the stateful intent and generate low level configuration data for the plurality of network devices based on the stateless intent. The one or more processing units are configured to interface with one or more of the plurality of network devices to configure the one or more of the plurality of network devices with the low level configuration data.

    Translating high-level configuration instructions to low-level device configuration

    公开(公告)号:US10200248B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15198657

    申请日:2016-06-30

    Abstract: In one example, a network management system (NMS) device manages a plurality of network devices including first and second network devices. Initially the first and second network devices are configured according to a first high-level configuration. The NMS is configured to determine a difference between the first high-level configuration and a second high-level configuration, apply a first transformation function, specific to the first network device, to the difference to generate a first low-level configuration change specific to the first device, apply a second transformation function, specific to the second network device, to the difference to generate a second low-level configuration change specific to the second device, configure the first device with the first low-level configuration change, and configure the second device with the second low-level configuration change.

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