Oracle International Corporation

Vmware, Inc.

Rajiv Mordani

Nazrul Islam

Abhijit Kumar

Yamini Kalyandurga Balasubramanyam

Sivakumar Melapannai Thyagarajan

Aditi Vutukuri

Christopher S Kasso

Steven Liu

Jacob Lindholm

Josh Dorr

Bhavanishankara Sapaliga

Chanda Rani Patel

Lawrence Feigen

Peter Bower

Timothy Quinn

Joseph DiPol

Arnold Poon

Kshitiz Saxena

Sirisha Myneni

Margaret Angeline Petrus

Kausum Kumar

Farzad Ghannadian

Tejas Sanjeev Panse

Loren Konkus

Jyothi Dattatreya

Jeffrey West

Mahesh Kannan

Ashish Patel

Sunitha Krishna

Joseph Di Pol

Arnold Koon-Chee Poon

Ashish Shendure

Byron Nevins

Siraj Ghaffar

Amarnath Palavalli

Joshua Lee Dorr

Jennifer Galloway

Vinith Podduturi

Masoud Kalali

Patrick Vinograd

Trilok Agarwal

Mitesh Meswani

Xin Li

Liang Zhang

Mohamed M Abdelaziz

Rajiv Krishnamurthy

Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo

Arijit Chanda

Jagadish Ramu

William A Shannon

Yun Zhi Lin

Martin Mares

Prasad Subramanian

Codanda Ganapathy Chinnappa

Radha Popuri

Lenny Phan

Chris Kasso

Bhakti Mehta

Mark Nelson

Shreedhar Ganapathy

Ming Wen

Carla Mott

Venkat Rajagopalan

Joseph Dipol

Tea Liukkonen-Olmiala

Vaishnavi Ramamoorthy

Santhanakrishnan Kaliya Perumal

Rehana Tabassum

Kavya Kambi Ravi

Andriy Zhdanov

Anissa Lam

Anthony Lai

Leimeng Zhang

Guojun Shan

Anita Lu

Chuntao Chen

Snjezana Sevo-Zenzerovic

Sandhya Kripalani

Chris Broadbent

Padraic Russell

Yonatan Graber

Shyamant Hegde

Santhana Krishna Kallya Perumal

Thomas Mueller

Shankar Vilayannur

Suresh Nagar

Madhavi Evani

Ankur Saran

Miranda Cheng

Qianhong Pan

Md Sazzad Hossain

A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements.

System and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment

Solutions for ARP-based annotations for virtual machines. In some solutions, a hypervisor implemented in a first host might determine that a first process is executing on the first host. The hypervisor can determine first context information for the first process, generate an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request, and/or transmit a first packet comprising the ARP request and the context information to a central controller as an indication that the first process is executing on the first host.

ARP-based annotations for virtual machines

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting partitions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, an application server administrator (e.g., a WLS administrator) can create or delete partitions; while a partition administrator can administer various aspects of a partition, for example create resource groups, deploy applications to a specific partition, and reference specific realms for a partition. Resource groups can be globally defined at the domain, or can be specific to a partition. Applications can be deployed to a resource group template at the domain level, or to a resource group scoped to a partition or scoped to the domain. The system can optionally associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by the tenant.

System and method for supporting partitions in a multitenant application server environment

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, on-premise, or other environment, which enables categories of components and configurations to be associated with particular application instances or partitions. Resource group templates define, at a domain level, collections of deployable resources that can be referenced from resource groups. Each resource group is a named, fully-qualified collection of deployable resources that can reference a resource group template. A partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and contains one or more resource groups. Each resource group can reference a resource group template, to bind deployable resources to partition-specific values, for use by the referencing partition. A tenant of the application server or cloud environment can be associated with a partition, or applications deployed therein, for use by that tenant.

System and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, or other environment

Some embodiments provide a method for detecting a threat to a datacenter. The method receives a set of connections between a set of DCNs in the datacenter over a particular time period. The set of DCNs includes at least a first DCN at which a first anomalous event was detected. The method analyzes a set of detected anomalous events to identify additional anomalous events detected at other DCNs in the set of DCNs during the particular time period. Based on the first anomalous event and identified additional anomalous events, the method determines whether the anomalous events indicate a threat to the datacenter.

Detecting threats to datacenter based on analysis of anomalous events

In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for enabling enhanced firewall rules via ARP-based annotations is described. In an embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a hypervisor implemented in a first host, that a first process is executing on the first host. The hypervisor determines first context information for the first process, generates a first request, encapsulates the first request and the first context information in a first packet, and transmits the first packet to a central controller to cause the central controller to update the controller's table to indicate that the first process is executing on the first host. In response to receiving a second packet from the central controller and determining that the second packet comprises a first response, the hypervisor extracts second context information from the second packet and, based on the second context information, determines that a second process is executing on a second host.

Methods for enabling enhanced firewall rules via ARP-based annotations

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting patching in a multi-tenant application server environment. The system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by that tenant, wherein a partition is a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of a domain. A patching process can take advantage of high-availability features provided by an application server clustering environment, to apply patches in a controlled, rolling restart, which maintains a domain's ability to operate without interruption, or with zero downtime. The process can be used to automate complex or long running tasks, including preserving an unpatched or prior version of an application server, application, or other software component for possible rollback, or providing automatic reversion in the event of an unrecoverable error.

System and method for supporting patching in a multitenant application server environment

Some embodiments provide a method for detecting a threat to a datacenter. The method generates a graph of connections between data compute nodes (DCNs) in the datacenter. Each connection has an associated time period during which the connection is active. The method receives an anomalous event occurring during a particular time period at a particular DCN operating in the datacenter. The method analyzes the generated graph to determine a set of paths between DCNs in the datacenter that include connections to the particular DCN during the particular time period. The method uses the set of paths to identify a threat to the datacenter.

Identification of time-ordered sets of connections to identify threats to a datacenter

Some embodiments provide a method for identifying security threats to a datacenter. The method receives flow attribute sets for multiple flows from multiple host computers in the datacenter on which data compute nodes (DCNs) execute. Each flow attribute set indicates at least a source DCN for the flow. The method identifies flow attribute sets that correspond to DCNs responding to name resolution requests. For each DCN of a set of DCNs executing on the host computers, the method determines whether the DCN has sent responses to name resolution requests in a manner that deviates from a historical baseline for the DCN based on the identified flow attribute sets. When a particular DCN has sent responses to name resolution requests in a manner that deviates from a historical baseline for the particular DCN, the method identifies the particular DCN as a security threat to the datacenter.

Detection of threats based on responses to name resolution requests

Some embodiments provide a method for identifying security threats to a datacenter. From multiple host computers in the datacenter, the method receives data indicating port usage for a particular time period for each of multiple destination data compute nodes (DCNs) executing on the host computers. For each DCN of a set of the destination DCNs, identifies whether the port usage for the particular time period deviates from a historical baseline port usage for the DCN. When the port usage for a particular DCN deviates from the historical baseline for the particular DCN, the method identifies the particular DCN as a target of a security threat.

Security threat detection based on network flow analysis

Techniques for providing application-independent access control in a cloud-services computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, a method for providing application-independent access control is provided. The method includes obtaining a user identity for accessing the cloud-services computing environment and receiving a user request to perform a task using an application. The method further includes collecting process-related data for performing the task using the application and obtaining one or more network routing addresses. The method further includes determining, based on the user identity, the process-related data, and the one or more network routing addresses, whether the task is to be performed. If that the task is to be performed, the task is caused to be performed using the application; and if the task is not to be performed, the user request is denied.

Identity-based access control for cloud applications

Some embodiments provide a novel method for receiving a plurality of attribute sets from a set of host computers, each attribute set associated with a group of one or more flows that is created by using a key to associate individual flows into the group of flows. The appliance, in some embodiments, merges two identified attribute sets into one merged attribute set and analyzes the merged attribute set to identify a set of properties of the flows in the groups of flows associated with the two attribute sets. In some embodiments, a visualization process includes identifying machines as members of groups and identifying machines that are connected. The visualization process, in some embodiments, also generates a graphical user interface that can be used to select groups of machines, domains, or individual machines and displays contextual attributes relevant to the selected group, domain, or machine.

Presenting data regarding grouped flows

Certain embodiments described herein are directed to a method of receiving information associated with a service provided by a management plane for managing a remote network. The method, in one example, includes registering, at an adapter container, with a data store or an entity within a service instance of a service deployment associated with a service within a software-defined networking environment associated with the remote network, wherein the service is provided for managing a remote network, and wherein registering with the data store or the entity causes the data store or the entity to send information associated with the service instance to the adapter when information is available. The method also includes receiving, at the adapter container, information from the data store or the entity. The method also includes transforming the information from a first format to a second format. The method also includes transmitting the information to an endpoint.

Enabling integration of solutions with software-defined networking platform

Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance and providing visual representations of the data to a user. Some embodiments provide a visual representation of the collected data that allows a user to select a set of machines and flows and initiate recommendation generation based on the selected machines and flows. The recommendation generation, in some embodiments, includes identifying flows for which rules have not been defined and filtering the identified rules to remove flows for which rules should not be defined. Some embodiments use the identified rues to identify services and groups associated with the rules and generate recommendations for rules, groups and services based on the identified flows, groups and services. The recommendations, in some embodiments, are implemented as a single PATCH API.

Recommendation generation based on selection of selectable elements of visual representation

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Rajiv Mordani