Juniper Networks, Inc.

Mcafee, Inc.

Manish Singh

Harshad Bhaskar Nakil

Shankar Ramanathan

Srinivas Chinnam

Prasad Miriyala

Anantharamu Suryanarayana

Vivekananda Shenoy

Rajesh Shinde

Srikanth Chowdary Marri

Techniques are disclosed for extending scalable policy management to supporting network devices. A network device comprising a memory and a processor may perform various aspects of the techniques. The memory may be configured to store a policy. The processor may be configured to obtain the policy to be enforced by a supporting network device coupled to a server, and identify a port of the supporting network device to which the server is coupled via the switch fabric. The policy controller may also identify a workload executed by the server to which the policy is associated, and convert the policy into configuration data supported by the network device. The policy controller may further configure, based on the configuration data, the network device to enforce the policy with respect to network traffic received via the identified port.

Extending scalable policy management to supporting network devices

A network device determines whether the network device has a local link for a link aggregation group (LAG), and identifies, when the network device has a local link for the LAG, the network device as a designated forwarder for the LAG. The network device also identifies, when the network device does not have a local link for the LAG, a closest network device to the network device, with a local link for the LAG, as the designated forwarder for the LAG.

Scalable method to support multi-device link aggregation

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for communicating automatic response messages based on a policy. In use, use of an automatic message generator utilized for automatically responding to receipt of a first message using a second message is identified. Additionally, it is determined whether a characteristic of at least one of the first message and the second message violates a predetermined policy. Furthermore, the second message is conditionally communicated based on the determination.

System, method, and computer program product for communicating automatic response messages based on a policy

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