Patent ID: 11863555
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing program instructions that cause a management service for a network to execute a process comprising:
establishing, by the management service for a network, a trust relationship with an entity associated with an endpoint in the network, wherein the entity is a manufacturer or vendor of the endpoint;
receiving, at the management service and via a Manufacturer Usage Description file for the endpoint, an indication that the entity desires remote access to the endpoint in the network;
configuring, by the management service and based on the indication, the network to provide a remote access connection between the entity and the endpoint in the network by providing a virtual private network (VPN) configuration to an edge device in the network that allows the entity to form a VPN connection with the endpoint via the edge device, to enable communication between the manufacturer or vendor of the endpoint and the endpoint using the VPN connection; and
providing, by the management service and to the entity, credentials to the entity for the remote access connection.