Patent ID: 11949602
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A method, comprising:
creating a stretched EPG extending between a first switching fabric at a first site and a second switching fabric at a second site and containing at least a first endpoint in the first site and a second endpoint in the second site, wherein the stretched EPG defines a security policy shared by the first and second endpoints, wherein the first switching fabric and the second switching fabric are communicatively coupled via a public network;
identifying a subset of endpoints in the stretched EPG using a filtering criteria based on a type of the subset of endpoints, wherein the type comprises at least one of (i) an operating system, (ii) an virtual machine, (iii) a hypervisor, (iv) an application, (v) a range of IP addresses, or (vi) a range of MAC addresses corresponding to the subset of endpoints; and
creating a micro-stretched EPG from the subset of endpoints, wherein the micro-stretched EPG extends between the first and second sites and wherein the subset of endpoints is removed from the stretched EPG.