Patent ID: 11956121
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for automating initial configuration of components of a private edge cloud network with zero or minimal touch configuration, comprising:
managing, by a network device of the private edge cloud network, an initial configuration of a security device of the private edge cloud network based on a first automated procedure that initiates and supervises the initial configuration of the security device;
managing, by the network device responsive to successful completion of the first automated procedure, an initial configuration of a switch of the private edge cloud network based on a second automated procedure that initiates and supervises the initial configuration of the switch,
wherein the second automated procedure includes an abstraction procedure pertaining to configuration differences between two or more different multi-vendor cloud server stacks associated with multi-vendor cloud servers of the private edge cloud network,
wherein the initial configuration of the switch is vendor agnostic relative to the two or more different multi-vendor cloud server stacks, and
wherein the abstraction procedure is generated, by the network device, based on standardizing network addressing and a virtual local area network scheme;

managing, by the network device responsive to successful completion of the second automated procedure, an initial configuration of a network infrastructure of the private edge cloud network based on a third automated procedure that initiates and supervises the initial configuration of the network infrastructure; and
managing, by the network device responsive to successful completion of the third automated procedure, an initial configuration of performance agents across the multi-vendor cloud servers based on a fourth automated procedure that initiates and supervises the initial configuration of the performance agents,
wherein the fourth automated procedure includes semantic normalization associated with one or more key performance indicators pertaining to the two or more different multi-vendor cloud server stacks.