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Kirk Soluk

Praerit Garg

Hitesh Raigandhi

Vishnu A Patankar

Jin Huang

Everett McKay

Nick Finco

Yang Gao

Xiaohong Wu

A process identifies one or more roles associated with a target server. The process also identifies one or more services associated with each role and identifies one or more ports associated with each role. The identified ports associated with the role are presented to a user. The user is requested to select among the identified ports associated with the role.

Method and apparatus for configuring a server

A process determines a role that a target server will perform. The process also identifies at least one security policy associated with the role. The target server is then configured to implement the identified security policies.

Method and apparatus for configuring servers

A process identifies multiple server roles and stores the server roles in a knowledge base. For each of the multiple server roles, the process identifies at least one service used by the server role, at least one communication port used by the server role, and any web-related requirements of the server role. This identified information regarding each of the server roles is stored in the knowledge base.

Method and apparatus for configuring a server using a knowledge base that defines multiple server roles

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