Automatic network assembly
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorMontgomery C. McGraw
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Abstract
Some examples provide a method for automatic network assembly. The following instructions may be used to implement automatic network assembly in a modular infrastructure. Instructions to automatically connect a management port to a management network. Instructions to automatically connect link ports to form a scalable ring. Instructions to automatically connect each modular infrastructure management device to a bay management network port.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a first modular infrastructure including:
- a plurality of infrastructure components, each including a set of controller area network microcontrollers;
- a midplane;
- a plurality of infrastructure management devices coupled to the plurality of infrastructure components including a first infrastructure management device including:
- one or more external management ports;
- one or more internal link ports;
- one or more external link ports;
- a machine readable storage medium having instructions for facilitating automatic assembly of a network without any user configuration beyond simple network cabling, wherein the facilitating allows the increasing and decreasing of the size of the system via the simple network cabling;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions, the instructions causing the processor to:
- automatically connect:
- the one or more external management ports to a management network,
- the one or more internal link ports at each of the two or more infrastructure management device via a midplane, and
- the one or more external link ports to one or more external link ports at a second infrastructure management device within a second modular infrastructure via a discovery protocol to form a scalable ring,
- wherein devices are automatically and selectively added or blocked from the ring based on advertised associations with a system manager;
- and
- retrieve information from the set of controller area network microcontrollers for a set of bay management network ports,
- wherein the processor performs the automatically connecting with automatic selection of a ring owner that controls the link ports on the management network to prevent network loops.
An infrastructure management device comprising:
- an external management port;
- an external link port;
- an internal link port;
- a machine readable storage medium having instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions to facilitate automatic assembly of a network without any user configuration beyond simple network cabling, wherein the facilitating allows the increasing and decreasing of the size of the system via the simple network cabling to automatically connect;
- the infrastructure management device to a management network via the external management port, the infrastructure management device to a second infrastructure management device via the external link port and an external link port at the second infrastructure management device using a discovery protocol and connect the infrastructure management device to a redundant infrastructure management device in the same modular infrastructure via the internal link port, and retrieve information from the set of controller area network microcontrollers for a set of bay management network ports, wherein devices are automatically and selectively added or blocked from the ring based on advertised associations with a system manager and the processor performs the automatically connecting with automatic selection of a ring owner that controls the link ports on the management network to prevent network loops.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor to facilitate automatic assembly of a network without any user configuration beyond simple network cabling, wherein the facilitating allows the increasing and decreasing of the size of the system via the simple network cabling, the instructions to automatically connect:
- one or more external management ports at one or more infrastructure management devices within a first modular infrastructure to a management network,
- one or more internal link ports of the one or more infrastructure management devices via a midplane, and
- one or more external link ports at each of the one or more infrastructure management devices to one or more external link ports at one or more infrastructure management devices within a second modular infrastructure via a discovery protocol, wherein devices are automatically and selectively added or blocked from the ring based on advertised associations with a system manager;
- and
- retrieve bay information from a set of controller area network microcontrollers for a set of bay management network ports,
- wherein the automatic connecting is performed with automatic selection of a ring owner that controls the link ports on the management network to prevent network loops.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.