Patent ID: 8935668
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing configuration files, the method comprising: sending a poll, from a server into a communications network, the poll requesting a configuration file locally stored in memory of a client device; receiving, by the server, the configuration file in response to the poll; determining, by the server, a local provision of the configuration file after deployment of the client device; comparing, by the server, the configuration file to a compliance policy in response to the local provision; determining, by the server, the configuration file fails the compliance policy; generating, by the server, a compliant configuration file that conforms to the compliance policy; retrieving, by the server, the compliant configuration file; and sending, from the server, the compliant configuration file to the client device with an instruction to replace the configuration file locally stored in the memory of the client device.