US 12,242,865 B2
Associating tags to configuration items for tag-based configuration management
Prasanna Parthasarathy, Cupertino, CA (US); Navdeep Bhatia, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Hua Zhong, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,268.
Prior Publication US 2024/0143342 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 9/4451 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing the configuration of individual features in a server system, the method comprising:
receiving a configuration command for a configuration feature of the server system to be configured for a specific user, wherein the configuration command includes an association with an operation for the configuration feature of the server system and a configuration tag associated with the specific user;
storing the configuration command in a configuration of the server system the configuration comprising one or more configuration commands; and
selectively operating on a subset of the configuration of the server system, the subset of the configuration defined by the configuration commands in the configuration that include the configuration tag associated with the specific user, wherein selectively operating on the subset of the configuration comprises executing the operation associated with the configuration command to configure the configuration feature of the server system.