Cisco Technology, Inc.

Radoslaw Konrad Ruchala

Piotr Jerzy Kupisiewicz

Olaf Meller

Michael Chomicz

David Pryor

Methods are presented herein for a reduced state machine that describes nodes and relationship dynamics representing real network elements (networking devices and software processes) in a computer/data network, and abstracted logical items. Logical states of networking features of the network elements are reflected in the graph, while configuration data is stored for completeness. A method called a 'Versioner Algorithm' is provided to record the temporal history of a node and its state over time within the node's metadata itself, while recorded relationships represent logical relations between observed nodes. A method is also provided to time-travel back to observe a historical view of the network. Further still, a method is provided to a difference of two historical topologies and return that data in human-readable or machine consumable form.

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Nowy Sacz, Poland

Radoslaw Konrad Ruchala