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US 10,374,941 B2Granted
Determining aggregation information
AssigneeEntit Software LLC
InventorsMax C Knees, Joseph Elisha Taylor, Lawrence M Besaw
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Abstract
A technique includes determining a network interface aggregation information for a given network device. Determining the aggregation includes determining whether the network device is capable of providing first data identifying an aggregation and selectively inferring the aggregation based at least in part on other data if a determination is made that the network device is incapable of providing the first data.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- determining network interface aggregation information for a given network device, wherein determining the aggregation information comprises:
- determining whether the given network device is capable of providing first data identifying an aggregation, wherein determining whether the given network device is capable of providing the first data identifying the aggregation comprises determining at least one of determining whether the network device supports a protocol associated with providing aggregation information or determining whether the network device stores an aggregation information table;
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- inferring the aggregation information for the given network device based at least in part on other data provided by a plurality of network devices other than the given network device in response to a determination being made that the given network device is incapable of providing the first data.
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A system comprising:
- a server comprising a plurality of server interfaces;
- at least one switch;
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- a network manager to:
- determine whether the server is capable of providing first data identifying a server interface aggregation;
- infer information for a server interface aggregation for at least two server interfaces of the plurality of server interfaces based at least in part on other data provided by a plurality of other network devices other than the server in response to a determination being made that the server is incapable of providing the first data;
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- determine at least one physical connection between the server and the at least one switch for the server interface aggregation for the at least two server interfaces.
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An article comprising a non-transitory storage medium to store instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to:
- determine whether a server is capable of providing first data identifying a server interface aggregation, wherein determining whether the server is capable of providing the first data comprises determining at least one of whether the server supports a protocol associated with providing aggregation information or determining whether the server stores an aggregation information table;
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- inferring server interface aggregation information for a server interface aggregation for the server based at least in part on other data provided by a plurality of other network devices other than the server in response to a determination being made that the server is incapable of providing the first data;
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- determining a server-to-switch physical connection for the server interface aggregation for the server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.