Abstract: Network device management may be provided. By utilizing a network ID tag (i.e., a switch identifier) corresponding to a network switch, a network management platform on a server may access network devices that exist behind the network switch. The network switch may comprise a network address translation (NAT) device. The network devices may comprise an industrial network comprising groups of machines that exist as islands behind their own respective network switches where each group of machines may utilize the same internet protocol (IP) addresses as other group of machines in the industrial network.

Abstract: Network device management may be provided. By utilizing a network ID tag (i.e., a switch identifier) corresponding to a network switch, a network management platform on a server may access network devices that exist behind the network switch. The network switch may comprise a network address translation (NAT) device. The network devices may comprise an industrial network comprising groups of machines that exist as islands behind their own respective network switches where each group of machines may utilize the same internet protocol (IP) addresses as other group of machines in the industrial network.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes discovering at a master network device, a plurality of slave network devices and locations of the slave network devices in a closed network topology, storing at the master network device, a location, address, and status for each of the slave network devices, synchronizing the status of each of the slave network devices at the master network device, and transmitting from the master network device, a configuration for application at each of the slave network devices. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.