NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACING DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS

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NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACING DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 19012637 titled 'NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACING DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS

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Devices and methods for tracking device configuration changes in a network are provided. The network comprises a client adapted to generate, in response to configuration data, a device configuration change. Then, the client pushes the device configuration change, along with a unique ID and a client ID to a server. The unique ID may be a transaction ID. The client stores the unique ID as a southbound ID in combination with metadata of the configuration data in its configuration history. Correspondingly, the server stores the unique ID received from the client as a northbound ID in combination with the client ID and metadata of the received device configuration change in its configuration history. In this way, the device configuration change pushed to the server can be traced based on the unique ID and the client ID.