Examples described herein relate to a network interface device comprising circuitry and data plane circuitry. In some examples, the circuitry is to receive control configurations from multiple control planes and based on a management configuration, selectively deny a control configuration of the received control configurations to configure operations of the data plane circuitry. In some examples, selectively denying the control configuration comprises restrict different control planes from modification of configuration of the data plane circuitry

Embodiments include systems and methods comprising a gateway located at a premise forming at least one network on the premise that includes a plurality of premise devices. A sensor user interface (SUI) is coupled to the gateway and presented to a user via a remote device. The SUI includes at least one display element. The at least one display element includes a floor plan display that represents at least one floor of the premise. The floor plan display visually and separately indicates a location and a current state of each premise device of the plurality of premise devices.

Systems and methods include obtaining a catalog for a “to” software release and details of a controller of a network element operating a “from” software release, wherein the software releases are associated with the network element, and wherein the controller has a file system associated therewith; determining a delivery technique for a software load of the “to” software release based on the catalog and the details of the controller; and causing delivery of the software load to the file system based on the determined delivery technique, wherein the causing is one of automatic and subsequent to a user command. The delivery technique can be one of i) a full delivery, including all files in the catalog, ii) a minimal delivery, including only files in the catalog needed based on modules present in the network element, and iii) a hybrid delivery, between the full and minimal delivery.

A communication apparatus includes a control unit that causes the communication apparatus to operate, based on that a predetermined command is received through a second connection in a first exclusive state in which the communication apparatus does not receive connection information through a first connection or a second exclusive state in which the communication apparatus is not connected to an external device corresponding to the connection information that is received through the first connection.

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of responses to incidents. In one example, a method of improving incident response comprises identifying an incident in an information technology (IT) environment associated with a first entity of a plurality of entities, and identifying action implementation information related to the incident. The method further anonymizes the action implementation information for the incident, and determines action suggestions based at least on the anonymized action implementation information.

A method and technique for utilizing user feedback of product installation includes initiating, on a client computing system by a user, an install module of a product to install an instance of the product on the client computing system according to a default installation process. The install module interfaces with a server system and retrieves feedback data collected by the server system in connection with prior installations of the product. The install module creates a modified installation sequence for the product on the client computing system from the default installation process based on the retrieved feedback data and then installs the instance of the product on the client computing system according to the modified installation process.

Systems and techniques for computing infrastructure standards assay are described herein. A set of existing configurations may be obtained of an existing software application executing on a set of computing systems operating in the computing infrastructure. The set of existing configurations may be evaluated using artificial intelligence to identify the standard configuration. The standard configuration may include a set of configuration options that appear most often in the set of existing configurations. A score may be generated for each existing configuration of the set of existing configurations based on deviation between the existing configuration and the standard configuration. A notification may be transmitted to an administrator based on the score. The notification may include an indication of options of the standard configuration that differ from options of the existing configuration.

Methods and systems for heuristic and automated policy recommendations in a virtual environment are described herein. A computing device may obtain, from a plurality of user devices, usage information associated with a virtual service. The computing device may obtain, from the plurality of user devices, currently applied user experience policies for the virtual service. The computing device may further obtain, from the plurality of user devices, system settings for the virtual service. Based on the usage information, the currently applied user experience policies, and the system settings, the computing device may cluster users associated with the plurality of user devices into user groups; and determine a set of new policies for each user group. The computing device may further recommend the set of the new policies.

A system, method, and apparatus for implementing workflows across multiple differing systems and devices is provided herein. During operation, a workflow is automatically generated to allow users affected by an action of a workflow to control various IoT devices associated with a trigger of a workflow.

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are provided for configuration monitoring. In some embodiments, there is provided a method that includes: sending a container image to a second cloud platform hosting a production system, wherein the container image includes configuration instructions to configure monitoring of an application at the production system hosted at the second cloud platform and at least one value to be monitored at the application at the production system hosted at the second cloud platform; receiving at least one message including the at least one value indicative of a current state of the application and/or the cloud platform; comparing the at least one value to at least one threshold; and in response to the at least one value exceeding the at least one threshold, sending an alert message.