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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2005
Michael Xie, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Langtian Du, Fremont, CA (US);
Jun LI, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention teaches a methodology for provisioning and managing a network having many network devices. In certain embodiments, groups of member devices are created each having a group policy configuration inherited by member devices. A variety of rules regarding prioritization, versioning, system snapshot, redo and undo are also taught. This embodiment is useful when the network devices can be partitioned into groups of similar type devices for similar applications. Similar physical attributes can also be mapped into identical virtual attributes, enabling policy configurations to be applied to varying devices and physical attribute configurations can be resolved upon device installation.