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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2019
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sujeet Banerjee, Bangalore, IN;
Umar Shaikh, Bangalore, IN;
Amarjeet Singh, Bangalore, IN;
Vishnu Kanth Tadipaneni, Bangalore, IN;
Sureshbabu Koyadan Chathoth, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2018.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); H04L 41/00 (2022.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 16/285 (2019.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for identifying stale configurations of a software-defined network (SDN) component uses a configuration export file of the SDN component to generate configuration dependency strands for configurations of the SDN component. The configuration dependency strands can then be classified as being stale based on at least one of path length, reference count and a custom attribute to elements in a network infrastructure for the configuration dependency strands.