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Creating and distributing template based service rules

  • US 10,469,450 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2015
  • Issued: 11/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of specifying service rules, the method comprising:

  • specifying a first set of service rules for a first template and a second set of service rules for a second template with each service rule in each of the first and second sets including (1) a service parameter for performing a service on data messages, and (2) a rule identifier for matching to data message attribute sets, each rule identifier of each rule comprising at least a template identifier for identifying the template associated with the rule, each template for deploying a multi-tier application in a datacenter; and

    distributing the first set of service rules to a first service node in the datacenter, and the second set of service rules to a second service node in the datacenter, each of the first and second service nodes comparing the rule identifiers of the service rules with the data message attribute sets in order to identify service rules that match the data messages that the first or second service node processes, each of the first and second service nodes comparing the rule identifiers and attribute sets by comparing the template identifiers of the rules with the template identifiers associated with the data messages.

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