US 2019/0356542 A1Published application

Internet of things gateway onboarding

AssigneeVMware, Inc.

InventorsRavishankar Chamarajnager, Niranjan Maka, Glen McCready, Greg Bollella, Vasudev Yendapally

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Abstract

Disclosed are various examples for gateway onboarding for IoT device management. In one embodiment, activation of a gateway is initiated by transmission of a request to activate the gateway to a network address. The request to activate the gateway includes a gateway identifier that uniquely identifies the gateway. A gateway enrollment agent is received. Enrollment of the gateway with the management service is performed using the gateway enrollment agent. The enrollment includes a transmission of a request to enroll the gateway to a management service address and an installation of an enrollment policy received from the management service. The gateway enrollment agent is updated to a gateway management agent that includes an ability to install at least one IoT device management product.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for gateway onboarding, comprising:

a gateway comprising at least one computing device;
and
a data store comprising instructions executable by the at least one computing device, the instructions, when executed, causing the at least one computing device to at least:
initiate an activation of the gateway by transmitting, to a network address of a gateway configuration service, a request to activate the gateway, the request to activate the gateway comprising a gateway identifier that uniquely identifies the gateway;
receive, from the gateway configuration service, a gateway enrollment agent and a management service address;
perform an enrollment of the gateway with a management service using the gateway enrollment agent, the enrollment comprising a transmission of a request to enroll the gateway, the request to enroll the gateway being transmitted to the management service address, and the enrollment comprising an installation of an enrollment policy received from the management service;
and
update the gateway enrollment agent to a gateway management agent, the gateway management agent being configured to install at least one IoT device management product.

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Application: 15/981,364Filed 16 May 2018
Published: 21 Nov 2019
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Classification8 codes

H04L 41/046
Network management architectures or arrangements: comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
H04L 41/0806
Configuration setting: for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
H04L 41/082
Characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings: the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
H04L 63/02
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls

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