US 12,112,177 B2
Policy driven zero touch provisioning of network devices
Prammanayagam Mandramoorthy, Bangalore (IN); Arun Singh Dangi, Bengaluru (IN); and Praveen Bk, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/304,239.
Prior Publication US 2022/0405106 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 61/5014 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/4416 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 61/5014 (2022.05); H04L 67/34 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network system, comprising:
a plurality of network devices;
memory storing a plurality of provisioning policies having a priority order; and
a system comprising one or more processors configured to:
receive a request from a first network device of the plurality of network devices, the request including network device identification information that identifies the first network device;
identify, based on the network device identification information contained in the request, a matching provisioning policy from among the plurality of provisioning policies, the matching provisioning policy having a highest priority out of one or more matching provisioning policies, wherein the network device identification information includes one or more of a Media Access Control (MAC) address for the first network device, a serial number of the first network device, a subnet of the first network device, a vendor of the first network device, and a model of the first network device; and
generate a response to the first network device, the response including address information assigned to the first network device and boot information corresponding to the first network device as defined by the matching provisioning policy.