Systems and methods for comparing configuration files and generating corrective commands

• US 9,088,491 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2012
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Original Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Vaidya, Ashish, Nema, Ajay Kumar
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava, Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garcia-Ching, Karina J
• Application Number:
  US13/414,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20130238768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,231 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0846 based on copy from other elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of synchronizing a target configuration file of a target device with a source configuration file of a source device. A parser of a first device may group commands from a source configuration file of a source device into subsets of commands. Each subset of the subsets of commands may comprise commands uniquely identified by a common attribute. A configurator of the first device may load into memory a command from a target configuration file, the command having a first identifying attribute. The configurator may load into memory a subset of commands having a common identifying attribute that matches the first identifying attribute. The configurator may compare the command with each command in the loaded subset. The configurator may generate a command for the target device, to synchronize a portion of the target configuration file with the source configuration file.

Claims

1. A method of synchronizing a target configuration file of a target device with a source configuration file of a source device, the method comprising:

(a) grouping, by a parser of a first device, a plurality of commands from a source configuration file of a source device into an index file, wherein the plurality of commands are organized into subsets of commands in the index file, each subset of the subsets of commands comprising commands uniquely identified and indexed by a common attribute, the common attribute identifying at least one of an object of the command or an operation of the command;

(b) loading, by a configurator of the first device into memory, a command from a target configuration file of a target device, the command having a first identifying attribute, the first identifying attribute comprising the at least one of an object of the command or an operation of the command;

(c) loading, by the configurator into the memory, one of the subsets of commands having a common identifying attribute that matches the first identifying attribute without loading other subsets of commands into the memory;

further comprises loading the subset of commands into the memory without loading other subsets into the memory;

(d) comparing, by the configurator, the command from the target configuration file with each command in the loaded subset of commands; and

(e) generating, by the configurator, one or more commands for execution on the target device to synchronize a portion of the target configuration file corresponding to the command compared, with the source configuration file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein (a) further comprises extracting a category of a command or a type of command from the source configuration file, and identifying commands from the source configuration file belonging to the same category of command or of the same type of command.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein (c) further comprises tracing the index list to match at least one of an object or an operation loaded from the target configuration file to the at least one of the object or the operation loaded from the source configuration file.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein (b) further comprises identifying the command from the target configuration file as comprising a command that has not been compared for synchronization with the source configuration file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein (b) further comprises loading the command into the memory without loading other commands from the target configuration file into the memory.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein (d) further comprises matching the command from the target configuration with each command in the subset by comparing each argument of the respective command.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein (e) further comprises deleting or marking the subset of commands in the index list responsive to generating the one or more commands for execution on the target device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein (e) further comprises removing, from the memory, the (i) command from the target configuration file and (ii) the subset of commands, responsive to generating the one or more commands for execution on the target device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the target device comprises the first device.

10. A system for synchronizing a target configuration file of a target device with a source configuration file of a source device, the system comprising:

a parser of a first device grouping a plurality of commands from a source configuration file of a source device into an index file, wherein the plurality of commands are organized into subsets of commands in the index file, each subset of the subsets of commands comprising commands uniquely identified and indexed by a common attribute, the common attribute identifying at least one of an object of the command or an operation of the command; and

a configurator of the first device;

loading into memory a command from a target configuration file of a target device into memory, the command having a first identifying attribute, the first identifying attribute comprising the element of the command;

loading into the memory one of the subsets of commands having a common identifying attribute that matches the first identifying attribute without loading other subsets of commands into the memory;

comparing the command from the target configuration file with each command in the loaded subset of commands; and

generating one or more commands for execution on the target device to synchronize a portion of the target configuration file corresponding to the command compared, with the source configuration file.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the parser extracts a category of a command or a type of command from the source configuration file, and identifies commands from the source configuration file belonging to the same category of command or of the same type of command.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the configurator traces the index list to match at least one of an object or an operation loaded from the target configuration file to the at least one of the object or the operation loaded from the source configuration file.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the configurator identifies the command from the target configuration file as comprising a command that has not been compared for synchronization with the source configuration file.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the configurator loads the command into the memory without loading other commands from the target configuration file into the memory.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the configurator matches the command from the target configuration with each command in the subset by comparing each argument of the respective command.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the configurator deletes or marks the subset of commands in the index list responsive to generating the one or more commands for execution on the target device.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the configurator removes, from the memory the (i) command from the target configuration file and (ii) the subset of commands, responsive to generating the one or more commands for execution on the target device.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the target device comprises the first device.