STARTUP CONFIGURATION FILE DEPLOYMENT

• US 20160006607A1
• Filed: 10/22/2013
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co Ltd (Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: WANG, Shoufeng, WEI, Dongsheng, ZHANG, Xueming
• Granted Patent: US 9,900,213 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0809 Plug-and-play configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/103 across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/457 containing identifiers of data entities on a computer, e.g. file names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet

Abstract

An auto-deployment server may receive, from a TFTP server, a notification message carrying a temporary IP address and a name of a basic configuration file obtained by the device from a DHCP server. The auto-deployment server may obtain the basic configuration file corresponding to the name of the basic configuration file from basic configuration files stored in the auto-deployment serve, may obtain a MAC address of the device according to the basic configuration file and the temporary IP address, may obtain a baseline startup configuration file of the device according to the MAC address, may deploy the baseline startup configuration file to the device, and may trigger the device to execute the baseline startup configuration file.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a notification message from a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, wherein the notification message carries a temporary IP address and a name of a basic configuration file provided by a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server;

obtaining the basic configuration file from stored basic configuration files and obtaining a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a device according to the basic configuration file and the temporary IP address;

obtaining a baseline startup configuration file of the device according to the MAC address;

deploying the baseline startup configuration file to the device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

triggering the device to execute the baseline startup configuration file.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

the basic configuration file comprises an initial Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) parameter or a telnet parameter of the device, and obtaining the MAC address of the device according to the basic configuration file and the temporary IP address comprises;

accessing the device in an SNMP or telnet mode according to the temporary IP address and the initial SNMP parameter or the telnet parameter and reading the MAC address of the device.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein obtaining the baseline startup configuration file of the device according to the MAC address comprises:

searching for a name of the baseline startup configuration file according to the MAC address and a corresponding relationship between the MAC address and the name of the baseline startup configuration file; and

searching for the baseline startup configuration file according to the name of the baseline startup configuration file.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein obtaining the MAC address of the device according to the basic configuration file and the temporary IP address comprises:

reading the MAC address of the device from the device after the device has executed the basic configuration file in the SNMP or telnet mode according to the temporary IP address and one of the initial SNMP parameter and the telnet parameter.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein deploying the baseline startup configuration file to the device comprises:

deploying the baseline startup configuration file to the device if an auto-deployment status is a waiting for deployment status.

7. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

obtaining software information of the device from stored auto-deployment information; and

deploying software for the device according to the software information of the device.

8. The method according claim 2, further comprising:

updating the temporary IP address to be an IP address after the device executes the baseline startup configuration file;

accessing the device according to the IP address and the SNMP parameter or the telnet parameter in stored auto-deployment information to determine whether the device is running normally.

9. An auto-deployment server, comprising:

a storage to store basic configuration files;

a memory to store machine readable instructions; and

a processor to execute the machine readable instructions to;

receive a notification message from a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, wherein the notification message carries a temporary IP address and a name of a basic configuration file obtained by a device from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server;

obtain the basic configuration file from the storage;

obtain a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the device according to the basic configuration file and the temporary IP address;

obtain a baseline startup configuration file of the device according to the MAC address; and

deploy the baseline startup configuration file to the device.

10. The auto-deployment server according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further to trigger the device to execute the baseline startup configuration file.

11. The auto-deployment server according to claim 10, wherein:

the basic configuration file comprises an initial Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) parameter or a telnet parameter of the device, and the processor is further to execute the machine readable instructions to access the device in an SNMP or telnet mode according to the temporary IP address and the initial SNMP parameter or the telnet parameter, and read the MAC address of the device.

12. The auto-deployment server according to claim 10, wherein the storage is further to store auto-deployment information comprising a correspondence between the MAC address and the name of the baseline startup configuration file, and wherein the processor is further to execute the machine readable instructions to search for the name of the baseline startup configuration file according to the MAC address and the correspondence between the MAC address and the name of the baseline startup configuration file, and search for the baseline startup configuration file according to the name of the baseline startup configuration file.

13. The auto-deployment server according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further to execute the machine readable instructions to read the MAC address of the device from the device after the device has executed the basic configuration file in the SNMP or telnet mode according to the temporary IP address and one of the initial SNMP parameter and the telnet parameter.

14. The auto-deployment server according to claim 10, wherein the storage is further to store auto-deployment information comprising an auto-deployment status and wherein the processor is further to execute the machine readable instructions to deploy the baseline startup configuration file to the device if the auto-deployment status is a waiting for deployment status.

15. The auto-deployment server according to claim 10, wherein the storage is further to store auto-deployment tuple information comprising a SNMP parameter or a telnet parameter and wherein, after the device executes the baseline startup configuration file, the processor is further to execute the machine readable instructions to update the temporary IP address as an IP address and access the device according to the IP address and one of the SNMP parameter and the telnet parameter to determine whether the device is running normally.