TRANSMISSION OF CONFIGURATION TO A DEVICE FOR PROVISIONING IN A NETWORK
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- receiving a communication from a trusted device indicating that a device to be provisioned has been added to a network;
obtaining, from the trusted device, identifying information of the device to be provisioned;
accessing a stored configuration for the device to be provisioned based on the obtained identifying information; and
transmitting the accessed stored configuration to the device to be provisioned for provisioning in the network.
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Abstract
A method is provided that includes receiving a communication from a trusted device indicating that a device to be provisioned has been added to the network; obtaining identifying information of the device to be provisioned; accessing a stored configuration for the device based on the identifying information; and transmitting the configuration to the device for provisioning. Alternatively, a computer-readable medium is provided that stores instructions to perform a method to transmit a discovery communication to a trusted device, receive a communication originating at an administrative device including a configuration; and provision the device via reboot with the configuration. Alternatively, an apparatus is provided including a table of provisioning configurations, the table including a configuration for a device to be provisioned in a network and a provisioning module to retrieve the configuration of the device stored in the table of provisioning configurations based on identifying information received from a discovery communication.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving a communication from a trusted device indicating that a device to be provisioned has been added to a network; obtaining, from the trusted device, identifying information of the device to be provisioned; accessing a stored configuration for the device to be provisioned based on the obtained identifying information; and transmitting the accessed stored configuration to the device to be provisioned for provisioning in the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, storing a set of instructions, executable by a processor, to perform a method to:
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transmit, from a device, a discovery communication to a trusted device in a network, the discovery communication including identifying information; receive, from the trusted device, a communication originating at an administrative device, the communication including a configuration to provision the device in the network; and provision the device by via reboot with the received configuration. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus, comprising:
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a memory to store a table of provisioning configurations, the table including a configuration for a device to be provisioned in a network, identifying information of the device associated with the configuration, and identifying information of a trusted device associated with the configuration; and a provisioning module to retrieve the configuration of the device to be provisioned stored in the table of provisioning configurations based on identifying information of the device to be provisioned received from the trusted device, the provisioning module further to transmit the accessed configuration through the trusted device to the device to be provisioned for provisioning. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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