Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Extreme Networks, Inc.

Aruba Networks, Inc.

Deepika Dwivedi

Santashil PalChaudhuri

Brijesh Kumar Yadav

Sandeep Unnimadhavan

Rajalakshmi Manoharan

Tilak Kumar Adhya

Joseph Garcia Baniqued

Nick G Suizo

Anil Villait

Govind Raj Desur

The present disclosure discloses a network device and/or method for centralized configuration with dynamic distributed address management. The disclosed network device receives, at a first network node, a range of sub network addresses and a specified size for a sub network. The disclosed network device then divides the range of sub network addresses into a plurality of sub-ranges of sub network addresses based on the specified size. Further, the network device allocates the plurality of sub-ranges of sub network addresses to a plurality of sub networks, and transmits an allocated sub-range of sub network addresses to a corresponding sub network at a second network node through an established secure communication channel. Moreover, the network device can retrieve a profile template that includes the range of sub network addresses and the specified size of the sub network; and create a profile based on the profile template.

Centralized configuration with dynamic distributed address management

A method is provided for a port management system in which a switch is automatically provisioned with network resources. A command or set of commands are stored and automatically executed on the switch upon the occurrence of a defined network event. The command or set of commands may be associated with one or more ports on the switch. When executed, the commands cause a change to a port configuration and/or policy on the switch to control access to a network resource. The network resource may include any device or service accessible on the network. The defined network event may include any network event associated with a device or user connected to the network. The command or set of commands may reference variables, control structures, and functions to modify command execution.

Port management system

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Deepika Dwivedi