Cisco Technology, Inc.

Krishnam Raju Datla

Srinivasa Beereddy

Praveen Vengalam

Chandrasekhar Guntakala

Parthasarathy Venkatavaradhan

Prasanthi Somepalli

Jung Sauw Tjong

Ravikumar Pisupati

Chandrareddy Manubothu

Muni Thunuguntlu

A unified network management framework enables a network operator to manage an entire network as if the operator is managing a single device.

Apparatus and method providing unified network management

A method of automatically determining a set of commands that a network device supports comprises the machine-implemented steps of receiving a syntax definition for a command help syntax of a network device; sending a seed command to the network device; receiving and storing a response from the network device; creating and storing information identifying commands that the network device supports, based on the response, in a database of command knowledge; determining and sending to the network device one or more command requests that cause the network device to respond with further information defining supported commands; creating and storing further information identifying additional commands or parameters supported by the network device, based on responses from the network device to the command requests, in the database; and repeating the determining, sending, creating and storing steps until the information in the database represents all commands and parameters that the network device supports.

Method and system for automatically determining commands for a network element

Methods and apparatus for allowing a central network manager to distribute corrective configuration information to customers using e-mail are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes determining if an issue is reported by a first customer system that supports a first device. The issue is associated with the first device. The method also includes obtaining updating information if the issue is reported by the first customer system, and providing the updating information to the first customer system. The first customer system is arranged to distribute the updating information to the first device and to cause the updating information to be implemented on the first device.

Automatic distribution of corrective configuration information

Syntax and semantic validation of network commands use a command database that has been learned automatically for validation of the syntax and the semantics of command line interface commands by interpreting the network commands as the network commands are entered to identify syntax errors or semantic errors before applying the same commands on a device of interest.

Method and apparatus for configuration syntax and semantic validation

Information flow between network elements in a network enables a management system to capture a security knowledge base and to perform a static analysis of the network. In one embodiment, a method for performing a network security audit based on information flows among network elements comprises the machine-implemented steps of obtaining a network inventory that identifies one or more network elements of a packet-switched network; determining how information packets flow through the one or more network elements; determining a first threat level for each of the one or more network elements; determining a second threat level for the network as a whole; and providing a report of a network security audit based on the first and second threat levels.

Method and apparatus providing unified compliant network audit

Programmable network intelligence approaches as disclosed herein provide apparatus, methods and tools to achieve programmable interfaces to a device, or group of devices or a network where native programmable interfaces are not available.

Method and apparatus providing programmable network intelligence

Data Model Prediction tries to emulate the existing non-programmable interfaces by accurately predicting the data structures and operations required to provide the programmable interfaces.

Method and apparatus for data model prediction

A method and apparatus are provided for communicating information and carrying out other interactions between a browser and an application program. A hyperaction protocol is defined that enables a browser to directly call functions of an application program executed by a separate server over a public network. In one embodiment, in the course of parsing and displaying an HTML document or other HTML source text, a browser encounters or receives a hyperaction request of the form 'hyperaction://&#x3c;ApplicationAction&#x3e;#&#x3c;Payload&#x3e;.' In response, the browser identifies a function or other action of a separate application. The browser calls that function of the application over the network and provides the payload. When a response is received, the browser extracts data values or function results provided by the application. As a result, a browser can directly interact with an application without using scripts or other awkward mechanisms of existing protocols.

Method and apparatus for communicating information between a browser and an application program

A method and apparatus are provided for communicating information and carrying out other interactions between a browser and an application program. A hyperaction protocol is defined that enables a browser to directly call functions of an application program executed by a separate server over a public network. In one embodiment, in the course of parsing and displaying an HTML document or other HTML source text, a browser encounters or receives a hyperaction request of the form &ldquo;hyperaction://<ApplicationAction>&num;<Payload>.&rdquo; In response, the browser identifies a function or other action of a separate application. The browser calls that function of the application over the network and provides the payload. When a response is received, the browser extracts data values or function results provided by the application. As a result, a browser can directly interact with an application without using scripts or other awkward mechanisms of existing protocols.

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Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Krishnam Raju Datla