Patent ID: 8910234

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for managing data center resources to enforce network device provisioning policies within a data center, the method comprising acts of: issuing, by a computer system, an instruction to at least one provider of a data center resource instructing the at least, one provider to prevent provision of the data center resource to network devices in the data center; receiving a request to provide the data center resource to at least one network device, the request including information specifying the data center resource; determining at least one provisioning policy that applies to the request, the provisioning policy specifying a plurality of organizational signoffs to occur when reconfiguring the at least one network device or when adding the at least one network device to a network; determining that the at least one network device is authorized to receive the data center resource from the at least one provider at least in part by determining the plurality of organizational signoffs have occurred; and issuing an instruction to the at least one provider of the data center resource instructing the at least one provider to provide the data center resource to the at least one network device.