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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinivas Nimmagadda, San Jose, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anirban Sengupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
Subrahmanyam Manuguri, San Jose, CA (US);
Alok S. Tiagi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention introduce cloud template awareness in the service policy framework. Some embodiments provide one or more service rule processing engines that natively support (1) template-specific dynamic groups and template-specific rules, and (2) dynamic security tag concepts. A service rule processing engine of some embodiments natively supports template-specific dynamic groups and rules as it can directly process service rules that are defined in terms of dynamic component groups, template identifiers, template instance identifiers, and/or template match criteria. Examples of such services can include any kind of middlebox services, such as firewalls, load balancers, network address translators, intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, etc.