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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Theodore Robert Grevers, Jr., Milford, MA (US);
Raja Rajaram Kannan, Leander, TX (US);
Rudolph B. Klecka, III, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory Faison Morris, Nashua, NH (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a device in a network maintains a topology database of one or more topologies of entities in the network. The device identifies a replacement entity that has physically replaced a particular one of the entities in the network. The device determines whether neighbor information regarding one or more of the entities that neighbor the replacement entity matches neighbor information in the topology database associated with the replaced entity. The device determines whether client information regarding one of more clients of the replacement entity matches client information in the topology database associated with the replaced entity. The device sends an alert when the neighbor or client information of the replacement entity does not match the neighbor or client information in the topology database associated with the replaced entity.