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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Venkata siva N. Amulothu, Cary, NC (US);
Nitin Kumar J. Huralikuppi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ashish Kapur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vishal Shukla, San Jose, CA (US);
Saritha Yeddula, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
As disclosed herein a method includes a software defined networking controller identifying an element managed by the controller on which to perform a software version maintenance operation, de-activating the identified element in a software defined network (SDN), ensuring that there is an active backup for the element in the SDN while the identified element is de-activated, initiating the software version maintenance operation on the de-activated identified element, and in response to completion of the software version maintenance operation, re-activating the de-activated identified element in the SDN. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.