Network beacon for hypervisor installations
AssigneeRed Hat Israel, Ltd.
InventorsMichael Kolesnik, Mordechay Asayag
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Abstract
A system and method for configuring components added to a network is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a host, that network identifying information of a plurality of networks to which the host is connected is unknown, listening for messages on the plurality of networks to obtain network identifying information for respective networks, receiving a message on a network of the plurality of networks, the message including a network identifier and a set of configuration settings, and configuring a network connection of the host for the network in view of the network identifier and the set of configuration settings from the message.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- determining, by a host, that network identifying information of a plurality of networks to which the host is connected is unknown;
- listening for messages on the plurality of networks to obtain network identifying information for respective networks;
- receiving a message on a network of the plurality of networks, the message including a network identifier and a set of configuration settings;
- and
- configuring a network connection of the host for the network in view of the network identifier and the set of configuration settings from the message.
A system comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processing device coupled to the memory, wherein the processing device is to:
- determine, by a host, that network identifying information of a plurality of networks to which the host is connected is unknown;
- listen for messages on the plurality of networks to obtain network identifying information for respective networks;
- receive a message on a network of the plurality of networks, the message including a network identifier and a set of configuration settings;
- and
- configure a network connection of the host for the network in view of the network identifier and the set of configuration settings from the message.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
- determine, by a host, that network identifying information of a plurality of networks to which the host is connected is unknown;
- listen for messages on the plurality of networks to obtain network identifying information for respective networks;
- receive a message on a network of the plurality of networks, the message including a network identifier and a set of configuration settings;
- and
- configure a network connection of the host for the network in view of the network identifier and the set of configuration settings from the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.