Foundry Networks, Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Nutanix, Inc.

Manan Shah

Marc Lewis Lavine

Animesh Chaturvedi

Ron Lau

Atif Khan

Praveen Raju Kariyanahalli

Vinay Prabhu

Shreyas Udayashankar Heranjal

Kilol Surjan

Shreyas Heranjal

Jagpreet Kaur Saigal

A method and system for managing connections with a distributed control plane is provided. The method includes generating, by a router, a controller identifier (ID) list comprising a plurality of controller group IDs of a plurality of controller groups, wherein one controller group ID uniquely identifies one controller group. The method also includes identifying a first controller group, by the router from the list, with which a connection is to be established. Further, the method includes establishing, by the router, the connection with a controller of the first controller group if at least one of following conditions is met I) the router has not exhausted maximum number of connections, 2) the router has previously had a connection with the controller of the first controller group, and 3) the router has an existing connection with a controller of a second controller group not present in the list.

Method and system for managing control connections with a distributed control plane

Disclosed is an improved approach to implement testing for distributed computing systems. A switchboard framework is provided that allows tests to be dynamically generated and executed against a system under test.

Framework for testing distributed systems

A method and system for managing connections with a distributed control plane is provided. The method includes generating, by a router, a controller identifier (ID) list comprising a plurality of controller group IDs of a plurality of controller groups, wherein one controller group ID uniquely identifies one controller group. The method also includes identifying a first controller group, by the router from the list, with which a connection is to be established. Further, the method includes establishing, by the router, the connection with a controller of the first controller group if at least one of following conditions is met 1) the router has not exhausted maximum number of connections, 2) the router has previously had a connection with the controller of the first controller group, and 3) the router has an existing connection with a controller of a second controller group not present in the list.

An approach to generating device-specific configurations is described. In one approach, a method of generating a device-specific configuration for a target device is described. The method involves receiving a configuration parameter, and receiving command syntax information. A state description is generated from the configuration parameter, with reference to a configuration library. Device information is retrieved from the target device, and the device-specific configuration is generated with reference to the command syntax information, the device information, the state description, and a command library.

Generating device-specific configurations

Technology for network security is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing network security includes receiving sampled packets. The sampled packets represent packets being sampled from network packet traffic in at least one location in a network. The sampled packets are converted into an appropriate format for analysis to form converted packets. Moreover, the converted packets are sent to a first group including at least one security device for analysis. If an event message is generated by the at least one security device as a result of analysis of the converted packets, the event message is received from the at least one security device. Network security is evaluated based on the event message and security policies and is adjusted based on that evaluation. The method may be implemented with a network manager.

Growing community of inventors

San Jose, CA, United States of America

Manan Shah