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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
K. Gintaras Atkinson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Daniel Wilsey, Mead, WA (US);
Darren William Oye, Greenacres, WA (US);
BO Wen, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Louis Reis, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
K. Gintaras Atkinson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Daniel Wilsey, Mead, WA (US);
Darren William Oye, Greenacres, WA (US);
Bo Wen, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Louis Reis, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
An element manager and programming discover that a network managed by the element manager comprises a network element. The network element stores a set of values describing a configuration of the network element. In response to the discovering, the element manager and programming automatically retrieve three or more subsets of the set of values from the network element in three or more respective, different stages. A network includes a first network element configured to provide first values describing a configuration of the first network element, a second network element configured to provide second values describing a configuration of the second network element, and an element manager configured to discover the network elements, to automatically retrieve the first values in a first number of stages, and to automatically retrieve the second values in a different second number of stages.