Mcafee, Inc.

Tylor Allison

Michael James Silbersack

Andrew Nissen

Aaron Miller

Anish Thomas

A system and method for automatically cloning or migrating a computing appliance while maintaining its operational state. A configuration bundle that includes configuration data, software revision level and a list of system updates is used to recover or duplicate a device's operation state. The system and method can also be utilized to migrate a computing appliance between different operating system while maintaining or replicating the previous operational state.

Automated computing appliance cloning or migration

A firewall cluster system comprises a first node operable to receive a connection in a firewall cluster having three or more nodes, determine user data associated with the connection, and share the user data with at least another node in the firewall cluster.

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Stillwater, MN, United States of America

Tylor Allison