There are provided an apparatus registration method capable of efficiently associating specific information about apparatuses and arrangement information about the apparatuses stored in an operation terminal, a program for implementing the method, and an apparatus system. A method for registration of luminaires associates a plurality of luminaires with items of arrangement information about the luminaires stored in an operation terminal for operating the luminaires. The method for registration of luminaires is adapted to include the steps of: consecutively reading at least two or more of items of specific information about the luminaires included in the luminaires using a RF reader; storing items of arrangement information about the luminaires into the operation terminal; and consecutively associating the at least two or more items of specific information consecutively read by the RF reader with at least two or more items of arrangement information among the items of arrangement information about the luminaires.

A method for configuring a communication network, including obtaining information indicative of current status of nodes of the communication network, links between said nodes of the communication network or a combination thereof; processing the information to determine a network configuration based on the obtained information, the network configuration implementable in the communication network by adjusting one or more of said nodes, one of more of said links between said node, or a combination thereof, wherein said processing comprises evaluating at least the network configuration based on a connectivity metric indicative of an extent to which said nodes are interconnected via said links; and providing instructions directing one or more underlying resources to implement the network configuration. A device including a network interface, a processor, and a non-transient computer readable memory having stored instructions which when executed by the processor configure the device to execute the methods disclosed herein.

A technical solution for significantly improving the scalability of the capability of an electronic information exchange platform is disclosed. Services provided by the platform may be described in a uniform way via service-specific provisioning descriptors. To provision services for a client system, a managed services provisioning system provides a service configuration interface through which a service associated with a tuple of a particular sender, receiver, and document type can be selected for further configuration. A service provisioning interface is dynamically generated for obtaining service-specific provisioning information from a user for generating a service-specific provisioning data instance that can be deployed to a backend system. At runtime, the backend system utilizes the service-specific provisioning data instance to provide the provisioned service for a client system. In this way, a variety of services can be efficiently provisioned for a diverse set of clients in a scalable, streamlined, and cost-effective manner.

A method and an apparatus for obtaining installation information of a network access device. The network access device may be CPE. When a user installs the CPE, after the user uses a terminal device to send a request for obtaining installation information of the CPE to a network device, and to receive the installation information of the CPE that is fed back by the network device, the received installation information of the CPE can be displayed on a display interface.

Example methods and computer systems for cloud environment configuration based on task parallelization. One example method may comprise: obtaining a task data structure specifying execution dependency information associated with a set of multiple configuration tasks that are executable to perform cloud environment configuration. The method may also comprise: In response to identifying a first configuration task and a second configuration task that are ready for execution based on the task data structure, triggering execution of the first configuration task and the second configuration task. The method may further comprise: in response to determination that the first configuration task has been completed, identifying third configuration task(s) that are ready for execution based on the task data structure; and triggering execution of the third configuration task(s) by respective third compute node(s).

A method for configuring a communication network, including obtaining information indicative of current status of nodes of the communication network, links between said nodes of the communication network or a combination thereof; processing the information to determine a network configuration based on the obtained information, the network configuration implementable in the communication network by adjusting one or more of said nodes, one of more of said links between said node, or a combination thereof, wherein said processing comprises evaluating at least the network configuration based on a connectivity metric indicative of an extent to which said nodes are interconnected via said links; and providing instructions directing one or more underlying resources to implement the network configuration. A device including a network interface, a processor, and a non-transient computer readable memory having stored instructions which when executed by the processor configure the device to execute the methods disclosed herein.

A network configuration method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided, and belong to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: A first execution device sends a device discovery message to a management device. The device discovery message is a layer 2 packet and includes a first port identifier, where a port identified by the first port identifier is a port, in an up state, of the first execution device (301). The first execution device receives a first configuration message from the management device. The first configuration message is a layer 2 packet and includes a configuration parameter for a second execution device. The configuration parameter includes an internet protocol address of the second execution device, and the second execution device is connected to the port identified by the first port identifier (303). The first execution device sends the first configuration message through the port identified by the first port identifier (302). The execution device and the management device may discover a new device by themselves, deliver a configuration parameter, and complete network configuration on the discovered device, to save a large amount of manpower and improve network configuration efficiency.

Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a logical middlebox in a hosting system that includes a set of nodes. The logical middlebox is part of a logical network that includes a set of logical forwarding elements that connect a set of end machines. The method receives a set of configuration data for the logical middlebox. The method uses a stored set of tables describing physical locations of the end machines to identify a set of nodes at which to implement the logical middlebox. The method provides the logical middlebox configuration for distribution to the identified nodes.

A method and an apparatus for communication between a first network device and second network device are suggested. The method comprises, at the level of the first network device: receiving, from the second network device, one or more requests for SNMP Set operation; caching the one or more requests; and upon a determined time period being reached, processing the cached one or more requests. A cache mechanism is suggested so that an SNMP agent can cache the requests for SNMP Set operation for a time period and process these requests in batch.

The present invention discloses a data uploading method, apparatus, and system, and relates to the field of NFV. The method includes: sending a query request to an NFV orchestrator, the query request carries all VNF package identifiers required by a network service; receiving a query result from the NFV orchestrator, the query result carries a target VNF package identifier list, and the target VNF package identifier list is used to record an identifier of at least one target VNF package that is not uploaded; if the target VNF package identifier list is not empty, obtaining the at least one target VNF package from the target VNF package identifier list; and encapsulating a NSD of the network service, the at least one target VNF package, and an identity verification file to send to the network functions virtualization orchestrator, the identity verification file is used for verifying validity of a user identity.