Cisco Technology, Inc.

Uffaz Nathaniel

Shyam N Kapadia

Lukas Krattiger

Jason David Notari

Aakruthi Ramkumar Gopisetty

Richard Lam

Wing Hon Yeung

The present technology provides a framework for user-guided end-to-end automation of network deployment and management, that enables a user to guide the automation process for any kind of network deployment from the ground up, as well as offering network management, visibility, and compliance verification. The disclosed technology accomplishes this by creating a stateful and interactive virtual representation of a fabric using a customizable underlay fabric template instantiated with user-provided parameter values and network topology data computed from one or more connected network devices. A set of expected configurations corresponding to the user-specified underlay and overly fabric policies is then generated for deployment onto the connected network devices. Network deviations from the intended fabric policies are addressed by the provision of one or more configuration lines to be deployed onto or removed from the connected network devices to bring the network state in agreement with the set of expected configuration.

Multi-fabric deployment and management platform

Presented herein are techniques for actively monitoring, at a network controller, a network location of an endpoint connected to the network based on control plane updates. The network controller is configured to archive the network location of the endpoint, along with local information for the endpoint, in an endpoint tracking database of the network controller.

Endpoint location tracking

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