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Automated network entity replacement based on historical topology consciousness

  • US 10,425,281 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/2017
  • Issued: 09/24/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • maintaining, by a device in a network, a topology database of one or more topologies of entities in the network;

    identifying, by the device, a replacement entity that has physically replaced a particular one of the entities in the network;

    determining, by the device, whether neighbor information regarding one or more of the entities that neighbor the replacement entity matches neighbor information in the topology database associated with the replaced entity;

    determining, by the device, whether client information regarding one of more clients of the replacement entity matches client information in the topology database associated with the replaced entity; and

    sending, by the device, an alert when the neighbor or client information of the replacement entity does not match the neighbor or client information in the topology database associated with the replaced entity.

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