System and method for priority-based rule generation with consistency check and policy enforcement

摘要

A network node receives rules from a plurality of different domain entities. Each domain entity has a different priority level, and each rule defines an action to be performed be a device in response to a predetermined event. The network node prioritizes the rules based on the priority levels of their respective domain entities, checks for conflicts between the prioritized rules, and generates a policy based on the prioritized rules.