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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Ji-kui Pei, Beijing, CN;
Hao Lu, Fremont, CA (US);
Chunfeng Wang, Beijing, CN;
Yan Liu, Beijing, CN;
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention includes, in part, storing a seed image having instructions to communicate with devices of a predetermined device type, but not instructions to provision a network device to be fully operational in a network. A processor boots a network device in the network for a first time, detects if another network device exists in the network, and downloads a full version of a product image from the other network device. The full version of the product image uniquely corresponds to network devices deployed in the network that include at least one device of the predetermined device type, replaces the seed image with the full version of the product image, and provisions the network device to a particular device type of the network.