公开(公告)号：US20200186408A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16270552

申请日：2019-02-07

Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP

Inventor： Nitin Singla ,  Yshavantha Nagaraju

IPC: H04L12/24

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed in which Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) servers form a blockchain network. Each SNMP server stores and maintains a local copy of a consensus ledger for which a consensus agreement has been obtained among the SNMP servers. The consensus agreement may be based on a validation of one or more fingerprints for one or more blocks of information in the ledger. The fingerprint for each block may be based on information in a preceding block. The consensus ledger includes transaction information for SNMP operations performed between the SNMP servers and managed devices. The common consensus ledger helps ensure that bandwidth, CPU time, and energy for the managed devices and the SNMP servers is not wasted on duplicate SNMP operations.