METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT

Abstract: a method and system for maintaining persistent network policies for a virtual machine (vm) that includes determining a name of the vm executing on a first host connected to a first network device; binding the name of the vm to a network policy for the vm on the first network device; acquiring from vm management software, using the name of the vm, a universally unique identifier (uuid) of the vm; associating the uuid to the network policy on the first network device; applying the network policy for the vm on the first network device; subscribing to receive notifications from the vm management software of changes to the configuration of the vm corresponding to the uuid; receiving notification from the vm management software of a configuration change made to the vm corresponding to the uuid; and updating the network policy of the vm to reflect the configuration change of the vm.

Inventor(s): Douglas Alan Gourlay, Kenneth James Duda

CPC Classification: H04L41/0816 (Configuration management of networks or network elements (address allocation ))

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