Vmware, Inc.

Nyansa, Inc.

Abraham Ankumah

Anand Srinivas

Richard Barry

Daniel Kan

A system and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes one or more collectors and a remote network manager. The one or more collectors are configured to receive network traffic data from a plurality of network elements in the network. The remote network manager is configured to connect to the one or more collectors over the Internet via a network interface. The one or more collectors extract metadata from the network traffic data and send the metadata to the network manager.

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System and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes

A system and method for providing automatic closed loop control of a network using a dynamic control loop. The system includes one or more collectors and a remote network manager. The one or more collectors are configured to receive network traffic data from a plurality of network elements in the network. The remote network manager computes an initial control policy to the programmable network elements using (1) high-level policies, security requirements, and any anomalous traffic behavior; (2) configuration capability and current configuration of underlying network elements; (3) network topology, statistics, and tolerable configuration change; and (4) control loop parameters including stability, oscillation, and timescale. The remote network manager sends control policy parameters to the programmable network elements, observes the network, measures effectiveness of the initial control policy with respect to the high-level policy, and computes an updated control policy to send to the programmable network elements.

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