Patent ID: 11863591
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
detect migration of a virtual machine (VM) from a first end point group (EPG) to a second EPG;
identify a rule for the first EPG that is associated with the VM;
determine whether the rule is present in the second EPG; and
add the rule to the second EPG if the rule is absent from the second EPG,
wherein the rule is identified by iterating through a plurality of rules of a network device controlling the first EPG according to an order, and
wherein rules of the plurality of rules are ordered according to priority levels associated with the rules.