TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY AND UPDATE OF CLIENT ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION IN A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN)

摘要

Techniques for automatic discovery and update of client environmental information in a virtual private network (VPN) are provided. Vendor adapters dynamically monitor information produced by software vendors for change information associated with software products. The change information is transformed into policy rules that are dynamically pushed to client agents on clients. The client agents acquire client information for the policy rules from their clients and report back to a VPN server. The VPN server in cooperation with the client agents then decide whether VPN sessions are permissible between the clients and the VPN server.