Disclosed are various implementations of approaches for continuous delivery of management configurations. In some examples, a management configuration delivery workflow is identified. A management console user interface includes a graphical representation of the management configuration delivery workflow. The management configuration is retrieved from a source environment specified in the management configuration delivery workflow and transmitted to a specified destination environment.

Various embodiments are described herein to track the state of components within a network element. One embodiment provides for a network element comprising a control plane including logic to transmit configuration and status of the network element during network element operation, the configuration including a configured state of one or more agents of the control plane and the status including operational status of one or more agents of the control plane; and a data plane to forward network data from an ingress interface to an egress interface, each of the ingress interface and egress interface including one or more counters, wherein the status of the continuously transmitted status of the network element additionally includes the one or more counters of each of the ingress interface and egress interface.

Disclosed embodiments are directed at systems, methods, and architecture for operating a control plan of a microservices application. The control plane corresponds with data plane proxies associated with each of a plurality of APIs that make up the microservices application. The communication between the data plane proxies and the control plane enables automatic detection of service groups of APIs and automatic repair of application performance in real-time in response to degrading service node conditions.

A digital network assistant which can detect network anomalies, identify actions likely to remediate them, and assist the user in carrying out those actions. In particular, a digital network assistant constantly monitors data streams associated with the network to determine key performance indicators for the network. When these key performance indicators indicate a network anomaly, the digital network assistant associates it with a digital string to one or more actions likely to remediate similar network issues. The digital network assistant can take these actions automatically or present them to a user to be taken. The system can also aid the user in taking the required actions via an augmented reality interface. In addition, the system can create narratives embedding findings from data analysis eliminating subjectivity. The system can also find optimal parameter sets by continuously analyzing anomaly-free parts of the network and their key performance indicators.

A computing device configured for determining a node status is described. The computing device includes a processor and instructions in memory. The computing device determines a representative node corresponding to a network group with multiple nodes. The computing device also sends a status retrieval directive to the representative node. The status retrieval directive includes a directive for retrieval of the node status of a target node. The computing device also receives the node status of the target node from the representative node and stores the node status on a database.

A method and system for managing a large number of servers and their server components distributed throughout a heterogeneous computing environment is provided. In one embodiment, an authenticated user, such as a IT system administrator, can securely and simultaneously control and configure multiple servers, supporting different operating systems, through a “virtual server.” A virtual server is an abstract model representing a collection of actual target servers. To represent multiple physical servers as one virtual server, abstract system calls that extend execution of operating-system-specific system calls to multiple servers, regardless of their supported operating systems, are used. A virtual server is implemented by a virtual server client and a collection of virtual server agents associated with a collection of actual servers.

Enhanced messaging is described to support status notifications regarding backup nodes of a data communications network. In one example, a status of a network node at the network node is monitored. The network node is coupled to a network. It is determined that the node is operating in a backup state, and a backup alive packet is sent through the network in response to determining that the node is operating in a backup state.

A communication apparatus comprises a rollback control unit to create a second process to roll back a currently working first process thereto; a storage to store states shared by the first and the second processes, the second process taking over a state(s) stored in the storage unit; a buffer; and a timing control unit that controls of timing of rollback. The rollback control unit starts event buffering to store in the buffer all of an event(s) received during when the first process is processing and destined to the first process, and upon completion of the processing of the event by the first process, the rollback control unit performs switching of a working process from the first process to the second process, sends the event(s) stored therein from start of the event buffering to the second process and stop event buffering.

A data configuration method and device, and a data configuration rollback method and device are applied to the field of information processing technologies. The data configuration method includes: receiving a data configuration operation request, where the data configuration operation request includes an data insert request, a data delete request, or an data update request; allocating an operation serial number to the data configuration operation request; and recording the allocated operation serial number and data requested to be operated by the data configuration operation request, as a mapping relationship between a creation operation serial number, a deletion operation serial number, and the data according to the data configuration operation request.

A centralized device management system for monitoring and controlling a device on granular object level in a plurality of datacenters is provided. The system includes a memory unit, a display unit, and a processor. The memory unit stores a database and a set of modules. The processor executes the set of modules. The set of modules includes a discover module, and a backup and restore module. The discover module is configured to discover a device to the device to the centralized device management system. The backup and restore module includes a backup module, a compare module, and a restore module. The backup module is configured to create backups for a configuration of the device. The compare module is configured to compare the backed up configuration with existing configuration of the device. The restore module is configured to restore the backed up configuration of the device.