Patent ID: 11956123
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a controller that manages a plurality of switches in a switch fabric, first configuration data from the plurality of switches;
generating, by the controller and based on the first configuration data, an initial policy that represents a fabric intent usable by the controller to manage the plurality of switches in the switch fabric;
detecting that an out-of-band (OOB) configuration change in configurations for a switch of the plurality of switches in the switch fabric has occurred to result in changed configurations for the switch;
obtaining, by the controller, second configuration data from the switch that represents the changed configurations;
creating, using the changed configurations and a pattern matching algorithm, a modified policy usable by the controller to manage the plurality of switches in the switch fabric;
determining that the fabric intent is maintained by reconciling the initial policy and the modified policy;
updating the initial policy based at least in part on the modified policy to result in an updated policy; and
storing the updated policy at the controller.