Cisco Technology, Inc.

Srinivasa Beereddy

Krishnam Raju Datla

Praveen Vengalam

Chandrasekhar Guntakala

Parthasarathy Venkatavaradhan

Prasanthi Somepalli

Jung Sauw Tjong

Muni Thunuguntlu

Chandrareddy Manubothu

A unified network management framework enables a network operator to manage an entire network as if the operator is managing a single device.

Apparatus and method providing unified network management

A method of automatically determining a set of commands that a network device supports comprises the machine-implemented steps of receiving a syntax definition for a command help syntax of a network device; sending a seed command to the network device; receiving and storing a response from the network device; creating and storing information identifying commands that the network device supports, based on the response, in a database of command knowledge; determining and sending to the network device one or more command requests that cause the network device to respond with further information defining supported commands; creating and storing further information identifying additional commands or parameters supported by the network device, based on responses from the network device to the command requests, in the database; and repeating the determining, sending, creating and storing steps until the information in the database represents all commands and parameters that the network device supports.

Method and system for automatically determining commands for a network element

Syntax and semantic validation of network commands use a command database that has been learned automatically for validation of the syntax and the semantics of command line interface commands by interpreting the network commands as the network commands are entered to identify syntax errors or semantic errors before applying the same commands on a device of interest.

Method and apparatus for configuration syntax and semantic validation

Information flow between network elements in a network enables a management system to capture a security knowledge base and to perform a static analysis of the network. In one embodiment, a method for performing a network security audit based on information flows among network elements comprises the machine-implemented steps of obtaining a network inventory that identifies one or more network elements of a packet-switched network; determining how information packets flow through the one or more network elements; determining a first threat level for each of the one or more network elements; determining a second threat level for the network as a whole; and providing a report of a network security audit based on the first and second threat levels.

Method and apparatus providing unified compliant network audit

Programmable network intelligence approaches as disclosed herein provide apparatus, methods and tools to achieve programmable interfaces to a device, or group of devices or a network where native programmable interfaces are not available.

Method and apparatus providing programmable network intelligence

Data Model Prediction tries to emulate the existing non-programmable interfaces by accurately predicting the data structures and operations required to provide the programmable interfaces.

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Srinivasa Beereddy