Cisco Technology, Inc.

Satyanarayana Dv Raju

David Anthony Tanner

David Delano Ward

Christopher Norris

Niraj Gopal

Sreenivas Devalla

Sai V Ramamoorthy

Kapil Jain

Nakka Siva Kishore Kumar

Sridhararao V Kothe

Mark Allen Freskos

Jiong Sun

Michelle Diane Hawke

Lei Yuan

Jonathan Turnbull

Dilbag Singh

Prasad Yerneni

A network management device connects to a device on the network, receives a trigger for an operation command, supplies to the device a command line interface command for the operation command, wherein a randomly generated string is included at the end of the command line interface command. The network management device receives the output of the operation command from the device, detects the end of the operation command output and parses the output using an XML-based parser. XML based configuration files are used for configuration of different network devices. XML based report files are used to generate different network reports.

Abstract representation and provisioning of network services

An end-to-end approach is provided for developing and maintaining network device management applications. The approach includes an XML-based development environment for network device management applications that uses Management Data API (MDA) schemas that define a hierarchical data model for components supported by a network device. The XML-based development environment also uses XML schemas to define a common XML-based interface used by management applications to access management data maintained on the network device. The approach provides programmatic access to network device management data and management data schema with an XML-based data model and interface that is consistent across all network device components. The approach includes mechanisms for automatically generating XML requests that conform to a hierarchical data model from requests that conform to a table-based data model. The approach also includes mechanisms for automatically extracting data from XML replies and conforming to the table-based data model.

Client-side XML-based development environment for network device management applications

A method and apparatus for the configuration of a network device through the exchange of XML documents is provided. A network device transmits multiple chunks of an XML document to a client in response to the size of the XML document being larger than a configurable size. The client does not receive any XML documents from network device that exceed the configurable size, and may abort receiving additional chunks of the XML document. The client and the network device may each discover which version of a data schema each other is using to reference components of the network device. The exchanged XML documents include version data that identifies a version for a plurality of data schemas that are each associated with a component of network device. The client and the network device may thus avoid exchanging ambiguous communications due to inconsistent versions of a data schema.

Protocol for efficient exchange of XML documents with a network device

A method and apparatus for deploying EMS provisioning services is provided. A communication to administer a particular service on a network element is transmitted from an EMS client to an EMS server. The communication contains service data that describes a particular service to be administered on the network element. The EMS server constructs an instance of a generic record that stores the service data. The EMS server selects a service module to process the instance based on which service is associated with the service data stored in the instance. The instance is processed to produce result data that describes the result of processing the service data at the network element. The EMS server stores the result data in a persistent store. This generic framework enables communications between EMS clients and the EMS server involving different services to be processed similarly. New services are added without modification to the generic framework.

Deploying network element management system provisioning services

A method and an apparatus are disclosed for managing multiple software component versions. The method and apparatus detect a version change to one software component on a network. Then, the method and apparatus automatically identify other software components that both need to be changed to remain compatible with the changed software component and also depend on the changed software component.

Dynamic handling of multiple software component versions for device management

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