Patent ID: 8539056

Claim:
A method of automatically configuring a plurality of network interfaces on a distributed system, the method comprising: detecting, by a computer processor of at least one node of a plurality of nodes, a change to a distributed configuration file comprising a plurality of network profiles and stored on one or more of the plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of network profiles comprising interface parameters, the at least one node comprising a computer processor, local memory, a plurality of network ports, and two or more logical interfaces, each of the two or more logical interfaces associated with one of the plurality of network profiles and at least one of the network ports; determining, by the computer processor of the at least one node, whether a change is necessary to one or more of the two or more logical interfaces of the at least one node based on the changed distributed configuration file; and if the computer processor of the at least one node determined that a change is necessary to one or more of the two or more logical interfaces of the at least one node, building, by the computer processor of the at least one node, at least one changed logical interface based on a network profile associated with the changed logical interface.