TECHNICAL FIELD

The present technology pertains to systems and methods for management of network devices. More specifically it is directed to deployment and management of Software-Defined Intent-based networks.

BACKGROUND

Traditional network deployment and management systems are generally specific to a particular fabric type and primarily directed to fabric management fabric after an initial deployment is complete. A functionality for providing effective start-up deployment is typically absent in such network deployment and management systems. Consequently, There is no general framework for facilitating management of a complete end-to-end (overlay and underlay) fabric deployment. Moreover, the automation process in conventional network management systems may sometime be transparent to the user and do not offer users the ability to validate configurations and/or guide the automated configuration deployment process. Furthermore, conventional network management systems do not support out of band configuration changes performed outside the built-in configuration deployment model while still maintaining configuration consistency throughout the network.

