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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
May. 22, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Theodore Robert Grevers, Jr., Milford, MA (US);
Roy Edward Osterberg, Clearlake, CA (US);
Jason Charles Greengrass, Cary, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Network device management may be provided. By utilizing a network ID tag (i.e., a switch identifier) corresponding to a network switch, a network management platform on a server may access network devices that exist behind the network switch. The network switch may comprise a network address translation (NAT) device. The network devices may comprise an industrial network comprising groups of machines that exist as islands behind their own respective network switches where each group of machines may utilize the same internet protocol (IP) addresses as other group of machines in the industrial network.