Infoblox Inc.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Srinath Gutti

Ivan W Pulleyn

Stuart M Bailey

Morteza Ansari

Etienne M Liu

Anupam Bharali

Ulf P Eckberg

Michael Soren Jacobsen

Lester Igo

Sandeep Panuganti

Miaomiao Shen

Saurabh Pradhan

Ulf P Ekberg

The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for providing policy configurations. The method includes (i) receiving a set of shared policy configurations, (ii) sharing the set of shared policy configurations across a plurality of entities, and (iii) deploying the set of shared policy configurations across the plurality of entities.

Alternate means to sharing configuration across multiple firewalls or groups of firewalls

A distributed log collector and report generation architecture is disclosed. In some embodiments, a received query to generate a log report is forwarded to each of a plurality of log collector clusters, and responses to the query received from each of at least a subset of the plurality of log collector clusters are aggregated to generate the log report.

Distributed log collector and report generation

Replicating data in a distributed database having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Replicating includes receiving a semantic command at a local version of the database at a node, interpreting the semantic command, and applying the semantic command to the local version of the database.

Semantic replication

Making data available from a database is disclosed. Making data available includes specifying a query function having a query function name, wherein the query function includes a structure and a member, determining the structure and the member included in the query function, wherein the query function has a query function name and includes the structure and the member, creating an index for the structure on the member, and compiling the query function to be available to a user by invoking the query function name without the user having to specify the structure and the member. Retrieving data from a database is disclosed. Retrieving includes invoking a query function that specifies a plurality of structures and a value, accessing a cross index of the plurality of structures, and using the cross index to access the data.

Indexing of database queries

Writing data in a distributed database having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Writing includes receiving a write request at a node, wherein the write request is associated with one or more operations to define an atomic transaction and performing the atomic transaction based on the request. The atomic transaction includes writing to a first version of the database in the node and writing to an entity representative of a state of the first version of the database.

Transactional replication

Maintaining consistent DNS information is disclosed. Information associated with a resource is received. A resource record is populated with the information. View information is derived from the resource record.

Maintaining consistency in a database

A technique for enforcing a database relationship is disclosed. The technique includes specifying within a database schema a reference type that associates two structures and specifies the relationship between the two structures, and automatically generating code that checks the relationship between the two structures based on the specified reference in the database schema.

Automatic enforcement of relationships in a database schema

A technique for converting a first version of a database to a second version is disclosed. The technique includes determining available translation steps, selecting a translation path from the first version of the database to the second version, and executing the selected translation steps in the translation path. The translation path includes selected translation steps from among the available translation steps.

Database migration

Techniques for writing data in a distributed database system having a plurality of members and a master are disclosed. In one embodiment, a write request is received at an originating member. The write request is applied to a version of a database on the originating member and is placed in a journal queue of items for propagating to the master in one single atomic action. The write request is propagated to the master. Whether the propagated write request is associated with a conflict is determined, and in an event it is determined that the propagated write request is associated with the conflict, an indication that the write request is associated with the conflict is sent to the originating member.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Srinath Gutti