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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Anu Mercian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Puneet Sharma, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles F. Clark, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for managing network devices using policy graph representations. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving configurations for a plurality of network devices; extracting one or more policies from the configurations; extracting a label hierarchy from the configurations, the label hierarchy describing an organization of nodes in a network comprising the network devices; generating a connectivity of a network comprising the network devices based on the one or more policies and the label hierarchy; generating a policy graph representation of the connectivity of the network; and displaying the policy graph representation of the connectivity to a user.